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The Time Traveler's Wife is a really wonderful novel. If I tried to describe it, you would think it was sci-fi meets romance and assume it was too "genre", but you would really be doing yourself a favor to give it a chance because the author Audrey Niffenegger (a talented professor of papermaking at Columbia College of Chicago) crafts the most beautiful and unique love story... it is dark, yet hopeful; the subject matter is in the realm of fantasy but the story itself is authentic and layered... I love it! Read it!
I love this book. It's being made into a movie and I'm super excited.
I agree completely, they were badly written, trite, and to a certain extent fairly sexist.
"Are you there god its me Elvira" Is what it should have been named.
Sexist, yes... I hear that gets worse in the later books, but I have no interest in reading them. The writing was very bland and boring. I don't see what all the fuss is about.
I totally feel you on that!!! I just graduated from nursing school last May and passed the NCLEX in July! Good luck! It sucks right now but it will be worth it in the end.
I'll be done in May. 16 more weeks of classes and my preceptorship, I get my cap in 111 days! I can't wait. I dove back into my Med-Surg book last night. *sniffle*
I read them all, I read pretty fast, and these guys were 2 dayers at most. I have a lot of friends who liked them andI wanted to know what I was talking about when I trashed them. The sexism thing gets fairly overt the farther you go in.
The Time Traveler's Wife is a really wonderful novel. If I tried to describe it, you would think it was sci-fi meets romance and assume it was too "genre", but you would really be doing yourself a favor to give it a chance because the author Audrey Niffenegger (a talented professor of papermaking at Columbia College of Chicago) crafts the most beautiful and unique love story... it is dark, yet hopeful; the subject matter is in the realm of fantasy but the story itself is authentic and layered... I love it! Read it!
I love this book. It's being made into a movie and I'm super excited.
I'm definately going to have to read this. I have heard several people talk about what a good book it is.
Also read the Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern which was a fun book to read.
I read that a few weeks ago. I was expecting something amazing by all of the reviews that I read, but I found to be a bit dull. I guess I'm just jaded by the fact that it's essentially another love story.
EDIT, there's another book thread around here with more activity. I will dredge it up.
Two authors that can shatter you: Julio Cortazar and Roberto Bolano
For Cortazar, read Hopscotch.
For Bolano, read 2666.
Both are highly addictive authors, and if their stuff clicks with you, you will find yourself buying and reading anything available. These are quack you up kind of books though...just a warning.
Original Dudezer was spot on.
Just finished The Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders, really hilarious short book.
Which is what I needed after finishing 1Q84 by Murakami, which took me about 3 weeks because it's almost 1000 page long.
Post by billypilgrim on Nov 22, 2011 19:34:30 GMT -5
I just finished Chuck Klosterman's Eating the Dinosaur. It's a collection of essays from 2009 on such diverse topics as Kurt Cobain, time travel, TV laugh tracks, football strategies, and the Unabomber. If you liked Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I think you'll like this too.
Which is what I needed after finishing 1Q84 by Murakami, which took me about 3 weeks because it's almost 1000 page long.
Reading this now about 200 pages in. So far so good.
I'm using the Kindle app so had no idea how long the book was. All I know is that I've been reading for a few days and am only 7% in.
Lost Memory of Skin was really good. Russell Banks does seamy like nobody's business.
The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman was ok if you're a fan of his. But it's nowhere near as good as his essay collections. There's not much of a story. More of an extended dialogue between a man and his therapist.
Finished yet? Read this some years back and it helped prompt a year or so of vegitarianism for me. I couldn't last but i still don't eat pork after reading it.
Finished yet? Read this some years back and it helped prompt a year or so of vegitarianism for me. I couldn't last but i still don't eat pork after reading it.
I did. I started to read it to see what his take on Localism was. It's a great read with what you expect from Singer. I think some of his facts and figures are a bit skewed but for the most part he's right on.
I hope you don't like chicken because if you do you won't eat it after this book.
Post by nodepression on Dec 10, 2011 12:17:45 GMT -5
Reading this,
It's great so far. It's a woman who may or may not be the last person on earth, and she just unloads a whole bunch of rambling, although it all kind of connects some way. Every paragraph is one or two sentences long.
Reading this now about 200 pages in. So far so good.
I'm using the Kindle app so had no idea how long the book was. All I know is that I've been reading for a few days and am only 7% in.
Lost Memory of Skin was really good. Russell Banks does seamy like nobody's business.
The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman was ok if you're a fan of his. But it's nowhere near as good as his essay collections. There's not much of a story. More of an extended dialogue between a man and his therapist.
Also, dear god what are you trying to read 1Q84 on? Is it just an app on your computer or are you reading it on a smart phone?
I'm using the Kindle app so had no idea how long the book was. All I know is that I've been reading for a few days and am only 7% in.
Lost Memory of Skin was really good. Russell Banks does seamy like nobody's business.
The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman was ok if you're a fan of his. But it's nowhere near as good as his essay collections. There's not much of a story. More of an extended dialogue between a man and his therapist.
Also, dear god what are you trying to read 1Q84 on? Is it just an app on your computer or are you reading it on a smart phone?
The iPhone Kindle app. I like that it's illuminated and easy to take anywhere.
Post by purplefuzzystuff on Dec 11, 2011 23:20:19 GMT -5
I'm currently reading the Amber Spyglass, part of the Golden Compass series. It's meant for kids but it's such a good series. I would have to reconsider letting my kid read it too early though, I was reading this morning before work and ended up sobbing in my car....haha, sigh...so good though.
^ such a great trilogy. a wonderful read for anyone who likes harry potter, hunger games, eragon, etc. i was fortunate enough to see the books acted out at the national royal theater in london when i was studying abroad my junior year. love, love, love.
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i just finished robopocalypse by daniel wilson. easy, entertaining read about how robots take over the world etc. would recommend it to anyone who is a dork like me and likes that kind of business.
Just finished 1Q84 and thought it was a great book. The ending was somewhat disappointing for me. It's a detailed story however the ending seemed like it was rushed and lots of loose ends left. It almost seems set up for a second book but I don't get that vibe from the author.
Post by Dave Maynar on Dec 14, 2011 6:21:30 GMT -5
I tried to read Bolano's 2666 and just could not get into it though it is supposed to be great.
I finally finished the 5 books so far of a Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. Good stuff.
I am currently reading The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen. I liked his other two books (The Last Town on Earth and The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers). This one feels a little flat so far, but I'll see if it picks up.
I got this and a couple other books for Abra from the library. Thought some people on here might be interested. It's a history of the Chitlin circuit which was the group of venues that black performers played in from the early 1900s to the 1960s. It talks about the beginnings of people like BB King and Little Richard and how these performers helped set up what became Rock N' Roll.
Has anybody else here read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace? Enjoying it but this thing is a beast, and I do not just mean the length of the book.
abra, I read "Miss Pegerine's Home for Peculiar Children" about a month ago. It was an interesting idea, and the book was okay, but not as good as I hoped for. Could have been a lot better.... but I wasn't attached to the characters. I get the feeling it will be a series? At least, the ending was very open.
I also read "Before I Go to Sleep" not long ago. Again, I didn't love it... I guess because I figured out the ending about 1/3 of the way into the book, so I lost interest.
abra, it seems we have the same kind of book interests so if you're looking for something, I have a bunch of suggestions in the other book thread.
Just finished reading this. It's basically about how, starting with the New Deal, the country's lawmakers became obsessed with detailing every possible scenario into the law.
An example that won't give anything away: Some guy got a formal reprimand when he bought a tractor (with his own money) to cut the grass at a gov't building in (I believe) California. He didn't go through "the proper channels" for approval....even though he spent his own $ and wasn't trying to get reimbursed. That is a drop of rain in comparison to the ocean that is the stupidity outlined in this book.
abra, I read "Miss Pegerine's Home for Peculiar Children" about a month ago. It was an interesting idea, and the book was okay, but not as good as I hoped for. Could have been a lot better.... but I wasn't attached to the characters. I get the feeling it will be a series? At least, the ending was very open.
Read this a while ago as well. It was OK, definately a neat concept. I think it was dude's first book, and probably more enjoyed by a younger audience.
Has anybody else here read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace? Enjoying it but this thing is a beast, and I do not just mean the length of the book.
I have wanted to, but my library doesn't have it. It looks too long to read during the 2 week interlibrary loan period, so I'll have to actually buy it.
