stargirl
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Post by stargirl on Apr 12, 2005 17:46:08 GMT -4
I was disappointed by Elizabeth Berg's latest "Year of Pleasures." I felt it was just so clumsily written. Plus, the main character got on my nerves fast, describing her marriage as one of those where the couple is totally immersed in themselves and shut everyone else out. I know couples like that and they really really irritate me. So I just couldn't feel too much sympathy for her. I also was disappointed by the last 2 Shopoholic books by Sophie Kinsella. If the first two hadn't been so funny and easy to relate to, I probably wouldn't have. And I know this is Young Adult, but I rushed out to buy "Prom" by Laurie Halse Anderson because I thought her previous two "Speak" and Catalyst" were just so good. "Prom" is less than amazing.
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loquaciousone
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Post by loquaciousone on Apr 12, 2005 18:19:21 GMT -4
Kris, get the frick outta my head! I feel the same way, but have been hesitant to say it because, well, because I don't want to look un-smart. And that's the reason why I typically avoid most books hailed by the literatti. I've been pleasantly surprised, at times, but more often than not when I go out on a limb (recent example: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson = snoozers) I'm pissed that I spent the money. Which probably makes me lowbrown, but whatever.
Oh: I liked She's Come Undone. Does that substantiate the previous sentence?
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Post by rattlerbrat on Apr 12, 2005 20:13:48 GMT -4
Yuuuuup...
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macarena
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Post by macarena on Apr 13, 2005 13:18:40 GMT -4
Word to the person who mentioned Glue. It was like reading a book in a foreign language that you only took for two years in high school.
Hated A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. From the cutsey title on, I just wanted to barf. I don't even know why I finished it. It seemed like anybody could have written it. It was shallow, uninspired, awfulness.
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jennipoo
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Post by jennipoo on Apr 13, 2005 13:21:59 GMT -4
Oh God, me too. Poor baby. You're in love with an older man who drives a grandpa car and is condescending to you. Go talk to Lara Flynn Boyle and quit killing trees.
I do have to say that I didn't throw this away. It sat in my bathroom for two years just because I overlooked it all the time.
And apparently it's being made into a movie? There ya go, Jack Nicholson. Your new role has arrived.
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polygal
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Post by polygal on Apr 13, 2005 21:02:44 GMT -4
My AP English Lit teacher my senior year is so in love with The Poisonwood Bible that she makes her classes read it as summer reading every year. I could barely read that damn thing. If I hadn't borrowed it from my best friend's mom (who warned me she couldn't finish it... which I should have taken as a huge warning), I would have torn that thing to pieces and burned it. Again, I blame Oprah.
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stargirl
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Post by stargirl on Apr 14, 2005 22:08:13 GMT -4
Is that by Barbara Kingsolver? Because I really don't like any of the other books she's written. I worked at a job once scoring state high school essays. One was a response to an essay by her called "Hermit Crab" or something. Well this job was a few summers ago, but I can probably quote parts of it verbatim (she's certainly whatever springs to mind when I hear the combination of Tucson, Arizona which is where it was set). This has not contributed to any love for her.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2005 1:06:25 GMT -4
Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell. Calling this book a piece of shit is insulting to shit. The book never made a coherent argument. She'd write a paragraph about a painting by the guy she believes was Jack the Ripper, follow it with 3 pages on his fistula (in no way relating it to the painting), write another paragraph on the painting and call it a chapter. I checked Amazon's reviews one night out of morbid curiosity. There were a bunch raving about the book - I wondered if I'd gotten a defective copy.
(Bag of Bones, I thought Survivor was the best of Palahniuk's books. Not that that's terribly difficult to manage - the sex scenes in Choke are the worst I've ever read - and I read cheesy bodice-rippers on occasion!)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2005 8:37:22 GMT -4
I will have a Laurel K Hamilton bonfire going before too long. Got into the first couple Anita blake books but then blah. and the Merry Gentry ones are just ridiculus rainbow fairy porn.
and like so many others The Lovely Bones just grates me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2005 10:47:45 GMT -4
Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell. Calling this book a piece of shit is insulting to shit. The book never made a coherent argument. She'd write a paragraph about a painting by the guy she believes was Jack the Ripper, follow it with 3 pages on his fistula (in no way relating it to the painting), write another paragraph on the painting and call it a chapter. I checked Amazon's reviews one night out of morbid curiosity. There were a bunch raving about the book - I wondered if I'd gotten a defective copy. ( Bag of Bones, I thought Survivor was the best of Palahniuk's books. Not that that's terribly difficult to manage - the sex scenes in Choke are the worst I've ever read - and I read cheesy bodice-rippers on occasion!) I loved the movie Fight Club so I read Survivor and loved it. Thought it was pretty cool and very imaginative. Then I read Choke. Snore. It seemed like a pale imitation of Fight Club. Last one I read by him was Diary. He's just a one trick pony IMO.
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