I couldn't get through the first Frankenstein book--just didn't hold my interest. I liked some of the old Koontz books, Fear Nothing, and the first and third Odd books.
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Something like it. Ä is like an E but a bit harder. Å (one dot only) is like a fuller and longer O. And then we also have Ö ... A bit like a longer and fuller and rounder U. Three letters we added to our alphabet. Examples: Are is Är in our language. Stream is Ström and Oar is Åra. Ear is Öra. Basically the same words, just a little remade.
Neesy
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but do you eat Swedish meatballs?Something like it. Ä is like an E but a bit harder. Å (one dot only) is like a fuller and longer O. And then we also have Ö ... A bit like a longer and fuller and rounder U. Three letters we added to our alphabet. Examples: Are is Är in our language. Stream is Ström and Oar is Åra. Ear is Öra. Basically the same words, just a little remade.
You know since i like history i am sucker for when they (the authors i mean) try to make history come alive. It might make my critical eye close a little. I remember the Doomsday Book by Connie Willis which i thought was really good, at least the part that were taking part during the plague years in a little english village. A very good description i thought. There were other opinions though....
Oh, of course, but not with Pasta. Shudder.. Meatballs has it given place at the christmas table. That is.. i sometime eat meatballs with stewed macaroni. That is quite good.but do you eat Swedish meatballs?
Something like it. Ä is like an E but a bit harder. Å (one dot only) is like a fuller and longer O. And then we also have Ö ... A bit like a longer and fuller and rounder U. Three letters we added to our alphabet. Examples: Are is Är in our language. Stream is Ström and Oar is Åra. Ear is Öra. Basically the same words, just a little remade.
That is so cool!
I'm a fan of Koontz but I could not read the Frankenstein books. I love the Odd books and many others. But, mostly the older ones. One of my favorites is From the Corner of his Eye. And Fear Nothing is really good.
There are times that I feel that Koontz goes way off unnecessarily, but I understand because he had a very hard and horrible childhood. I think writing helps him express that pain he endured growing up. People dis the hell out of him but he is a good author.
What weirds me out is that there is such a difference between his early books and his later books. I know Mr. King has grown as a writer, too, but his books hang together with a unified 'voice', even though that voice has matured. With Koontz, the difference is night and day--almost like it's two different writers. Barbara Kingsolver is much the same for me; without the name on the cover, I would never peg the author of Pigs in Heaven or The Bean Trees as being the same as the author of The Poisonwood Bible or Prodigal Summer.
Owen is in my top three as well.It's a wonderful book, IMHO. I get lost in it at least every couple of years
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I bought the Poisonwood Bible - what did you think of it?
Thanks. Think I'll give Prey a shot after Andromeda.
Finished Forever Odd. The ending redeemed some of the problems I had earlier in the book. Will be starting Brother Odd sometime later this month.
In the meantime, I'm getting
ready for Revival by revisiting some King short stories (didn't want to get caught up in another novel before Tuesday). Not sure if I want to reread Just After Sunset or FDNS (technically novellas). Hmmm.
Will be starting Brother Odd sometime later this month.In the meantime, I'm getting
ready for Revival by revisiting some King short stories (didn't want to get caught up in another novel before Tuesday). Not sure if I want to reread Just After Sunset or FDNS (technically novellas). Hmmm.
To be honest, I didn't like it at all. I know it was hugely popular, and I remember that there are several on the board who admire it, but it did nothing for me. I had a hard time finishing it. I much prefer her earlier books and her non-fiction (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle)
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Oh good - thought it was just me - I could not even finish it! I think it went with a bunch of books to a used book store a while back.
I didn't like it at all and only read it because I cared what Oprah had to say about books back then, but I no longer care at all about her suggestions . . . she doesn't read them. Depressing as smuck. It made me more mad than sad. Oh goodness . . .did that book get so much praise! I read others as well recommended by Oprah because I thought they would be good. Carp Crap. Advertising. In my opinion.
You are not alone Nees . . .we like and appreciate the good ****. And that was far from it! And it was so BIG!
If y'all haven't read her earlier books (The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, Homeland, Pigs in Heaven) don't be scared away from them. I really liked those ones! That's why Poisonwood was such a shock for me.
And MM, I think you're exactly right about the Oprah stuff--aside from classics, the picks of 'hers' (I have doubts about that, too) were overwrought crap--more well-off 'white people behaving badly and filled with ennui' or troubled teens or POC. That really troubled me. As a black female romance writer that I know said recently, "Really. We don't all need to be saved."
Any good? I'm a fan of Masterton. Very underrated if you ask me.
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