Neither can I. Self-important claptrap. "Well-Off White People Behaving Badly and Filled With Ennui" genre.
What Are You Reading?
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Yup. And the queen: Eat, Pray, Love.
The John Sandford's book is lovely.
I hated it. Reminds me of Coronation St.
Awesome,you are a fan? Been following him for years,almost as long as SK,have all the Prey books and the Virgil Flowers series..
I especially like Virgil Flowers. I am, indeed, a fan.
IJ is not an easy read but you've probably already heard or read that. I don't know what to make of the fact that IJ is a national bestseller. Before reading Wallace's story I picked up a reader's guide, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest by Stephen Burn. And I probably read more than a few reviews both paid and amateur before reading and as I read. For some stories I read I make my own index as I read, note characters, nice lines, this that the other. Descriptive writing that I like, like this from page 578, If you close your eyes on a busy urban sidewalk the sound of everybody's different footwear's footsteps all put together sounds like something getting chewed by something huge and tireless and patient.
My index is pages and pages long, that's the Word document section of it, and there is a stack of 3x6 pages full of scribbles. There is a story-line there and a chronology that Wallace obscures at one point. And there is an abundance of footnotes, incredibly long footnotes that help and hinder the telling, and like the time-line being obscured, maybe the footnotes are comment on the story-telling process. There are sections that are hilarious, incredibly funny, a scene that mimics the scene from Hamlet where Wallace found his title. There is an abundance of words that sent me to the dictionary. Ultimately IJ is an entertainment and it asks that you participate.
(If you have not read Owen King's story...the title of which escapes me at the moment...that story has some of the same kind of, call them thematic motifs at work, I think with how we see things, how we view things. Unfortunately I read that one on the kindle and I think it would have been a better read on paper. Read IJ on paper, I did.)
I wonder how IJ would read if one ignored the footnotes and read them separately instead of going back and forth, reading them as they came up, as I did? I've read a number of stories that are "difficult"...and IJ is one of the more difficult. (I think the footnotes make it so.) Gravity's Rainbow...that I've read five or six times...Cloud Atlas...that I read only once and had that one dialect chapter been placed close to the front I would have put the story down, unread. I've read Franzen and I did like his The Corrections. Not sure if I've read others from him. Tristram Shandy...Swift... One from Delillo was a chore...and I forget that title, too.
Check out Alexander Theroux you get a chance.
Officially starting End of Watch today. It's going to take a while since kiddo is home full time, but all the better to savor it.
Ugg, I need y'alls help! I downloaded Cronin's The City of Mirrors and I was trying to review The Twelve in my head and I have a problem I'm hoping someone can help me with. I read Arthur C Clarke's The City and the Stars, Cronin's The Passage and The Twelve, and Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy one on top of the other and I have them confused with each other Does anyone know in which story a group of people try to escape by climbing along a narrow ledge to a cave?
Does anyone know in which story a group of people try to escape by climbing along a narrow ledge to a cave?
The ledge/cave is not in a Cronin book.Ugg, I need y'alls help! I downloaded Cronin's The City of Mirrors and I was trying to review The Twelve in my head and I have a problem I'm hoping someone can help me with. I read Arthur C Clarke's The City and the Stars, Cronin's The Passage and The Twelve, and Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy one on top of the other and I have them confused with each other
Thanks for the helpful feedback, Walter. I am familiar with all your references except the last one, I'll try to get one at the library along with Infinite Jest. I haven't read anything by Owen King, either. Thank you again!
That is crouchs trilogy. At least it happens there, Havent read Clarke.Ugg, I need y'alls help! I downloaded Cronin's The City of Mirrors and I was trying to review The Twelve in my head and I have a problem I'm hoping someone can help me with. I read Arthur C Clarke's The City and the Stars, Cronin's The Passage and The Twelve, and Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy one on top of the other and I have them confused with each other
Thank you!
Thank you!
I love post-apocalyptic and dystopian sci-fi but I think I had best not try again to read one trilogy while waiting for the third book in a different trilogy lol
....I like Owen's work....just a different flavor than Dad's but, quality all the way.....
I liked Owen King's book of short stories (We're All In This Together) quite a lot. Double Feature showed he has great promise as a novelist. It is very funny! I thought it strained a bit as it went on; like a lot of modern young novelists, Mr. King pushed 'wacky' too far and the humor became brittle. IMHO, many of them want so badly to be Wes Anderson (who, in turn, takes a lot of cues from John Irving), but don't have the life experience to temper wacky characters so they are (sometimes against all odds) believable. I have great hopes for Mr. King, though; unlike some young writers, he clearly has his own style.
Really in deep with this now and I am so worried about
Bill . . .my heart is breaking. I can feel his pain and I almost even touch my left side every time his pain flares.
Finished EOW. Needed some funny so I'm re-reading a favorite of mine --
Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard
by Tom Reynolds (Author)
I also recommend his other book -
I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard
Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard
by Tom Reynolds (Author)
I also recommend his other book -
I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard
I have waiting for me at the library: The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and The Fireman by Joe Hill. oboy
Still reading EOW, but only 60 pages to go. Since kiddo is home full time (and driving me nuts every waking moment) I've been reading way past my bedtime.
And Brady Hartsfield wakes me up before the sun to read a bit while everyone else is still asleep.
I need to finish soon so I can get some rest.
And Brady Hartsfield wakes me up before the sun to read a bit while everyone else is still asleep.
I need to finish soon so I can get some rest.
Finishing FELLSIDE, and reading TRIBE (Sebastian Junger). Great book so far!
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