02-16-2006, 05:50 AM | #51 |
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Snow Falling On Cedars drove me nuts.
I was so bored while visiting my now ex-in laws about 4-5 years ago that I saw the book laying around and read the whole thing. It was beautifully written,,,but I guess the whole "taking 18 pages to describe the changing color on a leaf" thing drove me nuts after awhile. |
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02-16-2006, 06:45 PM | #53 |
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Yeah, I can for sure see that.
Japan is a land I would love to visit one day. |
02-16-2006, 07:46 PM | #54 |
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Homeboy - What was it that you liked about All the Pretty Horses?
I read it after it was highly recommended by a friend as one of his favorites of all time. I had a very hard time keeping interested in it. The way that the dialogue was presented was very distracting for me. Also, being a non-spanish speaker, it was very irritating to have no translation to much of the spanish dialogue, usually with no future reference to the conversation to help me to fill in the blanks. |
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I don't love reading, but here are books that have done something for me (and kept me interested, which is saying something):
- Angle of Repose (Stegner) - Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut) - 1984 (Orwell) - Post Office (Bukowski) - Nine Stories (Salinger) Fine, so Nine Stories is cheating. If you'll give me that one, I also really liked - Letting Loose the Hounds (Brady Udall) As a casual aside meant to "accidentally" offend people, I write speculative fiction but mostly can't stand reading it. Yes, including OSC. Most spec fic seems awfully out-of-balance, e.g., too much world-building and not enough plot; too much plot, not enough character; etc. o
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02-17-2006, 01:35 AM | #58 |
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I agree with those that said Catch-22 is the funniest book ever written.
Also I second Slaughterhouse 5 as a page turner. |
02-17-2006, 04:38 AM | #59 |
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I know you've all been waiting for me to chime in, but I really don't have much to add beyond some previously listed.
- Angela's Ashes (The technique used really pulled me in and appreciate his writing ability) - Mother Night (I think I may have liked this more than Slaughterhouse V) - Les Mis (Abridged -- I couldn't put that down, read it before seeing it performed) - Harry Potter I haven't had a lot of time the past couple of years or so to read and when I have it's mostly been non-fiction -- American history, Stephen Ambrose, baseball. Hemingway doesn't do anything for me -- I can't stand such self-centered characters as those in Sun Also Rises. And, outlier, Angle of Repose? It was all I could do to make it through that for a class at BYU. |
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