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I finally gave up on The Boys From Brazil. I have no idea why it was a best seller. The plot is preposterous even for sci-fi, the characters are flat and the writing is uninspired. I only stuck with it because I knew it was a big deal when it came out. Pfffft.
She was on Sex Rehab with Dr Drew, went on as a way to attract attention to a porn venture for profit but ended up leaving porn. I followed her on there and her blog as she was figuring out what she was doing and why. She writes like a regular girl, not a victim, and is self aware. She is smart and resourceful; interesting to see how a "regular girl" like that ends up in porn. I dont often think of the actors in them as 'real people'; Jennie makes a case that they are but made different choices than most of us.
The Eyre Affair which is a new one for me:
"Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide."
Jasper Fforde has a bunch of books in the "Thursday Next" series. The Eyre Affair is just the first. The books are really quirky and funny and there are lots of references to famous literature that avid readers will love. He takes "getting into a novel" to the extreme!
I finally gave up on The Boys From Brazil. I have no idea why it was a best seller. The plot is preposterous even for sci-fi, the characters are flat and the writing is uninspired. I only stuck with it because I knew it was a big deal when it came out. Pfffft.
I remember going through the same thing when we got cable and I tried to watch the '78 movie~zzzzz!
I am reading and enjoying very much~Hearse and Buggy (An Amish Mystery #1)by Laura Bradford
I had read the second book first[Assaulted Pretzel (An Amish Mystery #2)] some time ago because the first book was out and had several holds on it.Now, I am delighted to see that there are two more books in the series for me to read~Shunned and Dangerous (An Amish Mystery #3),and Suspendered Sentence (An Amish Mystery #4). I love series set in small towns with recurring characters that we come to know and love[or not].
I finally gave up on The Boys From Brazil. I have no idea why it was a best seller. The plot is preposterous even for sci-fi, the characters are flat and the writing is uninspired. I only stuck with it because I knew it was a big deal when it came out. Pfffft.
Very interesting-- I read it soon after it came out and thought it was amazing.
I guess this is a case where stories lose something over time.
I remember reading The Group way back in the 60's and being enthralled by it.
Recently had it as a book club read, and I couldn't get past 50 pages or so (and others had a similar experience).
Very interesting-- I read it soon after it came out and thought it was amazing.
I guess this is a case where stories lose something over time.
I remember reading The Group way back in the 60's and being enthralled by it.
Recently had it as a book club read, and I couldn't get past 50 pages or so (and others had a similar experience).
Yeah--maybe it's time and also one's state of mind. I read Love in the Time of Cholera soon after it was published and loved it. I tried to reread it recently and found it boring and didn't finish it.
Do you need to read Mr. Mercedes before Finders Keepers? For some reason, I never read Mr, Mercedes, but got it at the library today when I read that some of the same characters were in his new book, so I thought I'd better read Mr Mercedes first.
Honestly, I'm almost half way through Finders Keepers and I don't think it's absolutely necessary. It seems (so far) that it doesn't have a whole lot to do with Mr Mercedes and what's mentioned of it is rather self explanatory. With that said, I do recommend reading it first because it was such a great book.
Finished The Reluctant Midwife by Patricia Harman which I enjoyed almost as much as The Midwife of Hope River. Now I'm trying to figure out what to read next. I had gotten We Are Not Ourselves from the library but decided it just is too long for me right now as we have a very, very busy month and summer in general ahead of us and reading a couple of the 1-star reviews I decided I am not in the mood for it either. So I'm currently looking at shorter books in my collection. I've started a pile...Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, and Room by Emma Donoghue. I'm sure the pile will get larger before I make a decision.
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