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I like both kinds of fiction but many of the well written fiction stories are like listening to a long winded person Just get to the point already I'm more about the story than the writing in a lot of cases...but we all enjoy different things
A really good novel will have good writing as well as good storytelling. Both are required skills for a good writer.
In a related note, one of my beefs with a lot of current films is that we seem to have given up the storytelling. So many of the movies my son sees barely have a plot and are mostly just strung together sequences of fighting and chasing.
A really good novel will have good writing as well as good storytelling. Both are required skills for a good writer.
In a related note, one of my beefs with a lot of current films is that we seem to have given up the storytelling. So many of the movies my son sees barely have a plot and are mostly just strung together sequences of fighting and chasing.
Ugh...Movies today are awful. Boys/men do seem to like those quick action movies
I left Life After Life at work last weekend so I started Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan. It's non-fiction and a quick and terrifying read about a young woman with an autoimmune issue that caused her body to attack her brain. She went from being a bright, normal, independent 20-something journalist to having seizures and psychotic episodes and she lost her ability to read, write, and speak in a matter of weeks. Some really smart doctors figured it out and were able to successfully treat her. A movie based on the book is on Netflix right now.
Ugh...Movies today are awful. Boys/men do seem to like those quick action movies
I wouldn't mind so much if there were a plot/story to go along with the action. But it's all action and zero story -- what passes for a "story" doesn't generally make any sense.
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I left Life After Life at work last weekend so I started Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan. It's non-fiction and a quick and terrifying read about a young woman with an autoimmune issue that caused her body to attack her brain. She went from being a bright, normal, independent 20-something journalist to having seizures and psychotic episodes and she lost her ability to read, write, and speak in a matter of weeks. Some really smart doctors figured it out and were able to successfully treat her. A movie based on the book is on Netflix right now.
I have Life After Life in my TBR pile, where it has been for years.
Brain on Fire was fantastic. I knew about the movie but had forgotten about it, so thanks for reminding me of it -- I need to put it in my queue. This condition was fascinating -- I had known about it already because a neighbor's daughter had the same condition, although it was much worse than Cahalan's. The daughter was 7 years old and was in a coma/non verbal vegetative state for a year and a half. It was heart wrenching to see it happening. The daughter has had a good recovery, but lost all memory of her first seven years, and had to re-learn everything.
THat is my next book club read. I am pushing myself now to read Eleanor and Hick. It started out pretty interesting but it's getting bogged down in details that I don't find very meaningful. Still a very fascinating story. Not sure what I think of it (and I am at 40%).
I read a few things by Rick Bragg and really enjoyed his writing . I know I read All Over But the Shoutin and totally enjoyed it. I think that might have been the first book I read of his, Really a good story teller and what a childhood.
I think you will love Pachinko, I have had to stop reading it for a few days, as it was getting too intense & I was upset at an event. But it is teaching me a lot about the history of Korea & Japan that I was unaware of too. I am reading it for the next book club meeting too
I just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I didn't enjoy. I had to really, really push myself through it to finish it. Magic realism just isn't for me.
I am working on Bad Blood at the moment, about Theranos.
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Me again. I finished Katerina. I cried. It's actually a beautiful story and if the 80% mark thing (as reported above; I refuse to narcissistic-quote myself AGAIN) meant what I felt that it meant (no spoilers), it's a really sad but beautiful story.
Dawn, neither Katerina nor a novel you recommended earlier, Sadie, are in the Austin Public Library system for some reason. I looked on Amazon and they both get good reviews.
Is there something about these two books that would make a library system skip them, do you know? I'm a little baffled - your reviews, and those on Amazon sound good.
I haven't had the experience of looking for a book title before and NOT finding it in the Austin library system and this morning that's two in a row.
Has anyone read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand?
Just picked up a copy to read at appointments because of her other novels ie Secretariat.
I think a lot of us have. It's definitely worth a read.
It was the first book I read about the Japanese POW. The book was very good, a little long in parts, and to me some of it a little too unbelievable. I would have liked to have heard more about Louie's life after the war as that would make him "unbroken" after the fact once he was home.
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Just get to the point already
I'm more about the story than the writing in a lot of cases...but we all enjoy different things
