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The last Jean Auel book--"Shelter of Stones". Her first two, "Clan of the Cave Bear" and "Valley of Horses" were excellent. "Mammoth Hunters", so so. "Plains of Passage", boring. It's OK with me if she never writes the sixth one in the series.
The Gathering by Anne Enright. Just awful. I started it 5 weeks ago and I'm not finished with it altho' it has only 260 pages or so. I have a hard time concentrating on the events and people in this book b/c the narrator jumps from person to person to person and from time to different time. Some passages I don't know where she is at all when she switches back to here and now... Haven't read such a horrible book in years and she won the Man Booker Prize with this work huh?
You guys are aiming too high. Danielle Steel has got to top this list with her "spectacular" and "fabulous" looking main characters.
Hihi, I loved Danielle Steel books when I was 16. They were my first books I read in English and I just loved her love stories when I was so young. I had nearly all her romances and gave them all away to the library 3 years ago, they were thrilled - can't imagine why
I don't like Alberto Fuguet. I think he abuses of strong language and certain subjects to cause controversy but nothing new is added in terms of narrative, styles, thematic, etc.
The Loser's Club by Richard Perez. What an over-hyped waste of time that was. Not only that, but I attempted to leave negative reviews of the book on Amazon several times over the course of a year and they never made it to the reviews. There were other complaints about this as well. I wonder if he had a friend working at Amazon. His style was touted as something along the lines of Bukowski...it wasn't even close.
i was totally disgusted by the content... and i read a lot of murder/mystery books usually. i haven't read other books written by him. i did like that at the end of the book, he explained why he chose such a topic, and that was the best part of the book.
At the risk of getting attack by fellow sci-fi lovers:
Eragon by Christopher Paolini- It started out interesting, but then there were a few things that ruined it for me. First of all, the repetitive "Boy trusts man--man gets hurt--man starts getting better--man suddenly dies" routine that happened with both his uncle and the elderly dragon rider he hung out with. He met up with another guy and I was all, "No way! I'm not going to bother investing my time with him just to have the same routine play over again with him." It was interesting the first time, but when it happened the second time it was just repetitive. Then, there's the random mention of him dreaming about this beautiful woman that wasn't even mentioned until half way through the book. Then, suddenly she appears and is captured? I'm sorry, it seemed to me that he just wanted to add some random romance in the middle of his book. I suppose if I had read the other books it might make more sense, but it just seemed random and came off as though he was trying too hard to make the story interesting.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald- I know this one might get me into big trouble, and Fitzgerald's book was very interesting near the beginning, but it became too long too fast. I haven't read it since 10th grade, but it seemed to get a bit jumbled with all the different transitions and I lost interest in the middle. I ended up with a 60 on the test b/c I did not read through it, and it was one of the few books I did not finish reading b/c it just became a bit tedious with the constant changes. Perhaps if it were told in a different way it might have been more interesting.
kattwoman, I don't like any of Fitzgerald's books. His characters are really pretty horrible, taken as a group - whiny, bored-with-life, better-than-thou snoots, most of them.
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