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Dana Jean

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80sFan said:
Now reading Laura Lippman's After I'm Gone.

It is slow going, but I blame the post-really-great-book curse. I have a hard time with whatever I read immediately following a five-star story.
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See, this is why I like THe Great Gatsby so much. I read a string of good-lord-let-me-open-a-vein classics and I got to Gatsby and it actually had a storyline. And some interesting characters there doing interesting things.

Red Badge of Courage, Old Man and the Sea, Madame Bovary, The Last of the Mohicans, The Scarlet Letter, On the Road, Moby Dickhead -- I so hated these and I read one right after the other and the other and I was ready to go to that clinic in a Clockwork Orange -- so yes. What you read before a book and after a book and what kind of mood you're in and if it is night or day, you're well or sick, happy, sad, mad, tired, hungry -- all these things can influence how you feel about a book.

This is why I know that someday, I will be able to appreciate The Grapes of Wrath for the storyline. (THe writing is superb, but the story? I so wanted that Beverly Hillbillies truck of theirs to run off a bridge and burst into a fireball.)
 
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Dana Jean said:
See, this is why I like THe Great Gatsby so much. I read a string of good-lord-let-me-open-a-vein classics and I got to Gatsby and it actually had a storyline. And some interesting characters there doing interesting things.

Red Badge of Courage, Old Man and the Sea, Madame Bovary, The Last of the Mohicans, The Scarlet Letter, On the Road, Moby Dickhead -- I so hated these and I read one right after the other and the other and I was ready to go to that clinic in a Clockwork Orange -- so yes. What you read before a book and after a book and what kind of mood you're in and if it is night or day, you're well or sick, happy, sad, mad, tired, hungry -- all these things can influence how you feel about a book.

This is why I know that someday, I will be able to appreciate The Grapes of Wrath for the storyline. (THe writing is superb, but the story? I so wanted that Beverly Hillbillies truck of theirs to run off a bridge and burst into a fireball.)
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M.J. Carey has a new one out that sounds interesting. His latest (perhaps only book?), i think, The Girl With All The Gifts was really suberb. I'm looking forward to this new one, Fellside. Was released in april. Used to write comics and graphic novels before he started with novels. Anyone read it?
 
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M.J. Carey has a new one out that sounds interesting. His latest (perhaps only book?), i think, The Girl With All The Gifts was really suberb. I'm looking forward to this new one, Fellside. Was released in april. Used to write comics and graphic novels before he started with novels. Anyone read it?
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I really liked Girl with all the Gifts. Might have to check this one out.
 
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Finished The Mother. This is one I will NOT hand down to my own mother--the subject matter (loss of a child through violence) is too harsh. It's beautifully written, though, as was her first novel (A Cupboard Full of Coats). It had one preachy section that slowed the pace of the story as bit, but it was only three pages so the book had time to recover. I liked how the characters grew and changed over the course of the story, though it takes place in the space of about a week, with a few flashbacks. Lovely book, and deserving of a read. I could see it as an effective BBC drama, if they had the guts to approach the story at all. As soon as I finish the review in the morning, I'll probably get back to Oscar Wao.
 
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Still slogging through Miss Peregrine's etc. etc. I have about 1/4 left to read and I still am not thrilled with it. Beside the fact that the story is so forced to incorporate the photos (which lose their quirkiness after seeing so many of them) the writing is pretty pedestrian and there are no likable characters. The upside is that I will save money by not having to purchase the 2 sequels or see the movie. ;;D
 
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carrie's younger brother said:
Still slogging through Miss Peregrine's etc. etc. I have about 1/4 left to read and I still am not thrilled with it. Beside the fact that the story is so forced to incorporate the photos (which lose their quirkiness after seeing so many of them) the writing is pretty pedestrian and there are no likable characters. The upside is that I will save money by not having to purchase the 2 sequels or see the movie. ;;D
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Oh, there's the upside!
 
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I was reading The Shining, and reached over 200 pages into it until I got loaded down with assignments and studying. I'll get back to it soon, but in the meantime, I'm going to peruse Like Dandelion Dust, a religious novel by Karen Kingsbury, a bestseller in that particular genre. I normally don't read Christian fiction; they tend to be centered on preaching to the zealots. Nevertheless, I shall give it a look.
 
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Going on with Patriots by A.J. Langguth. About the American Revolution and what lead up to it. Starts its story in 1761 so we really get to know the characters and their shifting stands in internal and external american and British relations. I am up to the battle of Lexington now (1775) and many major players are still waiting in the wins. Jefferson and Washington for example has been figuring but not yet as major players. That will change. I like that the icons of this period are portrayed as humans, not heroes. Hero worshipping is not a good basis for good history. There is too much of that already in many histories Ive read.
I needed to read it. There is a lot i did not know before. In school we read more about the french and russian revolution as i remember. When it comes to american history there was more about the Civil War than the revolution. Of course Washington, Jefferson etc was covered but more in an anecdotal way and not so much context. And afterwards i must admit to being more interested in the native americans history than the modern America. But I am remedying that now.
 
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