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Books You Can't Quite Get Round To Reading
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I have had the girl with the dragon tattoo on the "to read" pile since it was first published here, well before any of the hype of (last?) summer.
I still haven't read it. I just can't bring myself to. I don't know why particularly, many people who I trust recommend it.
What book do you seem to be completely unable to pick up and read?
I still haven't read it. I just can't bring myself to. I don't know why particularly, many people who I trust recommend it.
What book do you seem to be completely unable to pick up and read?
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Schindler's list. I really tried, can't do it.
The Dragon Tattoo trilogy, skimmed the first, super skimmed the second, couldn't manage the third at all. I only skimmed the first because the books had been loaned by a friend.
Fifty shades. Couldn't even finish the Amazon free sample.
I agree with Tilly regarding hype too.
on a different but tangential subject, here's one that is worth a look
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation
The Dragon Tattoo trilogy, skimmed the first, super skimmed the second, couldn't manage the third at all. I only skimmed the first because the books had been loaned by a friend.
Fifty shades. Couldn't even finish the Amazon free sample.
I agree with Tilly regarding hype too.
on a different but tangential subject, here's one that is worth a look
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation
Being exclusively anti-hyped books can mean you miss a good book. Fifty Shades, I agree, was AWFUL. But I enjoyed the Millenium Trilogy, especially the feisty main character.
To get back to Ed's original question, I bought the His Dark Materials trilogy about a year ago and can't get past the first chapter somehow, most unimpressed I'm afraid.
Each to their own I suppose.
To get back to Ed's original question, I bought the His Dark Materials trilogy about a year ago and can't get past the first chapter somehow, most unimpressed I'm afraid.
Each to their own I suppose.
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"most unimpressed I'm afraid"
That's a shame Canary, it's good if you know a little Milton and can bounce along the connections there. I think the characters & engagement is aimed much younger than I assume you are, so it can seem a little clumsy.
Hi Woof, I don't read Crime as a general rule, because it usually bores me.
Here's my recommendation for the week:
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation
It's post modern Jewish sci-fi about the poison of language
That's a shame Canary, it's good if you know a little Milton and can bounce along the connections there. I think the characters & engagement is aimed much younger than I assume you are, so it can seem a little clumsy.
Hi Woof, I don't read Crime as a general rule, because it usually bores me.
Here's my recommendation for the week:
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation
It's post modern Jewish sci-fi about the poison of language
Indeed Canary......
Ab Editor, what was the book you suggested for the AB book club.....Jewish Policeman's Ball or summat like that. A friend also recommended it and I can't for the life of me get the title to stick!
Ab Editor, what was the book you suggested for the AB book club.....Jewish Policeman's Ball or summat like that. A friend also recommended it and I can't for the life of me get the title to stick!
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation
This one? The Yiddish Policemen's Union. That's a cracker! His other books are also wonderful - Chabom is up there with David Mitchell in terms of "muscular prose", probably only a rung down from someone like McCarthy
This one? The Yiddish Policemen's Union. That's a cracker! His other books are also wonderful - Chabom is up there with David Mitchell in terms of "muscular prose", probably only a rung down from someone like McCarthy
Tolkien himself says not Ab Editor
"Still, we have to admit that Tolkien has been definite about saying that The Lord of the Rings series is not specifically about World War II. He has pointed out that he started writing the series right after The Hobbit, before war with Hitler seemed inevitable. In his "Foreword" to the new edition of The Lord of the Rings series in 1965, Tolkien wrote:
The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If [World War II] had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied [...] In that conflict both sides would have held hobbits in hatred and contempt: they would not long have survived even as slaves."
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Eye Contact isn't a crime novel as such. Its more about a bunch of people drawn together by a crime.
"Still, we have to admit that Tolkien has been definite about saying that The Lord of the Rings series is not specifically about World War II. He has pointed out that he started writing the series right after The Hobbit, before war with Hitler seemed inevitable. In his "Foreword" to the new edition of The Lord of the Rings series in 1965, Tolkien wrote:
The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If [World War II] had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied [...] In that conflict both sides would have held hobbits in hatred and contempt: they would not long have survived even as slaves."
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Eye Contact isn't a crime novel as such. Its more about a bunch of people drawn together by a crime.
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