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We should all jump onto amazon and buy it so it'll show up as a trend! It could be the next big thing! there will be blogs and industry people all taking about "Who is this Artie?" It HAS to be much better than that 50-Shades crap that became a phenomenon last year.
Just finished "Molloy" and am trying to decide if I want to listen to the next in the trilogy. (I cannot believe after commenting how I don't care for trilogies I am in the midst of two of them! )
Molloy isn't for someone who loves a plot, and I cannot say his work is poetic. In fact, sometimes I just have to stop listening and shake my head... but if I can track with what is being read it is -- well, marvelous. He definitely did something unlike any other.
Lords of Discipline, by Pat Conroy. I just discovered him, and I really liked South of Broad a lot. Not liking this one as much, but its still good.
His books are hard to categorize. They aren't political or thrillers or mystery, or romance, but just good stories with interesting characters. I also love that in each of them I have found new words I never saw before.
You are in for some real treats with Conroy.
My two favorite Conroy books are The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini.
Well, if you use "50 shades" of anything, I'm sure you'll run into legal problems.
I don't think so, considering they've already made a number of parody versions... pretty sure I ordered Fifty Shames of Earl Grey (audiobook) for the library.
Have you read other John Green? I haven't read The Fault in Our Stars but my 15 year old son has it in a boxed set, and I've read Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns, also by John Green, and was surprised at how much I really enjoyed them both. In fact, Looking for Alaska actually caused me to pull an all-nighter and I haven't done that for a book in a very long time!
Of course this is all very bad because here I am, decades later, still avoiding my assigned readings in favor of my chosen readings (have a ton of stuff to read for an English lit exam next week!). Never learn!
I haven't read any other John Green but I knew of him because my husband has tried to force me to watch some Vlog-brothers videos. I'm almost 120 pages in and I'm liking it so far. I will definitely add his other books to my list based on your recommendation!
I just finished reading Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery, which is a collection of philosophical essays edited by William Irwin. This is the first book in the “…and Philosophy” series I’ve read in full (I’ve read a few assorted essays from other books in the series). I enjoyed the book, although I must stay that sometimes the ways in which the authors quoted lyrics to support a philosophical position seemed a bit forced. I thought that the feminist perspective on male bonding in rock bands was insightful (which was in a chapter with the clever title: "Boys Interrupted" )
Some little treasures that could be easily missed: At the end of the book is a list of the authors who contributed essays, along with a mini-bio for each of them. The final sentence in each bio was a silly remark, and some of these were entertaining. According to the bio for Kimberly A. Blessing, for example: “Kim constantly worries that she is praying to the God that failed.” Oh…on second thought, I suppose this would only be funny to Metallica lovers. (“The God that Failed” is the title of a Metallica song.)
I haven't been doing much reading. I had stuff going on and then my old horse died and I couldn't concentrate. But last night I finished one of the unread books I found when I painted the office - The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley. It looked so much like something I must have read but I hadn't read it and I don't know why. It's about a world in which a mysterious gate appears - one side of the gate has a highly technological, and over-crowded society, and on the other side of the gate is what appears to be a primitive society. I found it very interesting and will look up the author's other books. The author's name seems very familiar to me, for some reason.
And then I started River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh. Barely started - just a couple of pages in. I have some of his other books.
And I also bought the paperback version of Wool by Hugh Howey and am looking forward to reading it on something other than an ipad. I'm sure there are things that floated right past my eyes when I read it the first time but I want a book or two between me and it so that it will feel fresher anyway.
And I also bought the paperback version of Wool by Hugh Howey and am looking forward to reading it on something other than an ipad. I'm sure there are things that floated right past my eyes when I read it the first time but I want a book or two between me and it so that it will feel fresher anyway.
Read the initial Wool, when it was a short story, before it was turned into a novel. Pretty definitive end, hard to see how that could be made into a novel....
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But last night I finished one of the unread books I found when I painted the office - The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley. It looked so much like something I must have read but I hadn't read it and I don't know why. It's about a world in which a mysterious gate appears - one side of the gate has a highly technological, and over-crowded society, and on the other side of the gate is what appears to be a primitive society. I found it very interesting and will look up the author's other books. The author's name seems very familiar to me, for some reason.
