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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 35)
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| Esiotrat |
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates- Tom Robbins
I've been reading this and while it has Robbins' clever if improbable plot twists and his masterful wordplay that I have come to love it just isn't grabbing me like the rest of his novels I have read. It's by no means bad but to me it just isn't great. (oddly enough most fans of his writing find this to be one of their favorites). |
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| chlola |
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| R.j. |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
Let me know if the Bell Jar succeeds in being more interesting than its author. I mean, she did stick her head in the oven with her kids in the next room :wtf: |
Well, I finished it on Friday. Oddly, I'm still trying to decide what my exact feelings about the book are. But, despite that, I can tell you that it's a good book... to a degree anyway. It's basically Catcher in the Rye, only played out by a female protagonist. Some passages were brilliant, points where Esther's "state" was perfectly delineated, and some passages (most of which were toward the beginning) were stale and seemed to be trying too hard to convince the reader that she was very much a disturbed lady. |
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| Lira |
I'm in love with every page of this book, every moment I had with it (which was usually with some unexpected company), and every idea it gave me.
"Works of Love" is a lovely work  |
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| Renzo |
Haven't come across anything I've wanted to read, as of late. I guess I've been busy writing.
Maybe something will pop up soon. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renzo
Haven't come across anything I've wanted to read, as of late. I guess I've been busy writing.
Maybe something will pop up soon. |
What are you writing? |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renzo
I guess I've been busy writing. |
Me too! :D |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
Me too! :D |
You'd better be writing something pornful and juicy! :mad: |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
Winner of the Faulkner Award. About halfway through, and its one of the better historical fiction books I've read. I do love Doctorow's prose though - "City of God" is probably one of my favorite books.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...6022001593.html |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Winner of the Faulkner Award. About halfway through, and its one of the better historical fiction books I've read. I do love Doctorow's prose though - "City of God" is probably one of my favorite books.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...6022001593.html |
Just fyi, this was a really excellent book. Historically fairly accurate, and the way that Doctorow uses a cast of characters to describe an event and the multiple ways that it influences personal history is really intriguing. One of my favorite authors. |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by infiniteJEST
Buuut before any of that there's nonfiction I'll plow through. Stuff like How to Read Literature Like a Professor; Psychoanalysis, Creativity, & Literature; and The Seven Basic Plots, which hopefully won't be tripe. |
These books are tripe. I am disappoint.
Dubliners is great stuff. |
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