This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

MagicMarker

Rory Gallagher wrote: »

...it annoys me to see so much ignorance surrounding the book,ESPECIALLY from annoying college students who have to read it and give the most idiotic reasons for disliking it.Things like ''Wah It makes no sense'' and ''It's so long''...Why are these people aloud near an educational facility?

Criticizes people people for disliking book because of "idiotic" reasons.

Rory Gallagher wrote: »

Unfortuantaly I am reading the dull as dishwater How Many Miles To Babylon,I thought it was alright when I started reading it however since I am stuck with writing about it I realized what a dreary,boring awful piece of whingy shíte it truly is.

Criticizes book with "idiotic" reasons.

Personally, if there's a reason you don't like a book, then there's nothing particularly idiotic about it. If you think a book is too long, that's okay, it's a perfectly valid reason for not liking a book. If you don't think a book makes sense, that's okay too.

Rory Gallagher

MagicMarker wrote: »

Criticizes people people for disliking book because of "idiotic" reasons.



Criticizes book with "idiotic" reasons.

Personally, if there's a reason you don't like a book, then there's nothing particularly idiotic about it. If you think a book is too long, that's okay, it's a perfectly valid reason for not liking a book. If you don't think a book makes sense, that's okay too.

Jesus wept...

How is thinking a book should be branded with disdain purely based on it's length considered un-idiotic?It is a foolish way to describe a work of such magnitude such as Ulysses.
How is being of the belief that something makes 'no sense' considered anything but foolish.Of course it makes sense,Many guides exist.Some out there are merely too bloody lazy to involve themselves with Ulysses.

Even then Ulysses is absolutely nothing in either difficulty or length to other celebrated works such as War and Peace.

kylith

OakeyDokey wrote: »

This week I am reading The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

I wanted to read the series for a while and finally getting around to it now.

Welcome to the club! The first two are more 'standard' fantasy, as ivytwine said it's Mort where it really hits its stride.

Just keep the foreseeable future free, because there's a lot of books to get through and if you like them you won't want to stop.

MagicMarker

Rory Gallagher wrote: »

Jesus wept...

How is thinking a book should be branded with disdain purely based on it's length considered un-idiotic?It is a foolish way to describe a work of such magnitude such as Ulysses.
How is being of the belief that something makes 'no sense' considered anything but foolish.Of course it makes sense,Many guides exist.Some out there are merely too bloody lazy to involve themselves with Ulysses.

Even then Ulysses is absolutely nothing in either difficulty or length to other celebrated works such as War and Peace.

Who said anything about disdain based purely on the length???

I'm simply saying there's nothing wrong with not liking a book because you feel it's too long. The length of a book influences the readers enjoyment and can have a negative or positive effect on the story within. Would 'Of Mice and Men' or 'Animal Farm' still be considered the classics that they are if they were 800 pages longer? Maybe, then again maybe not. I've read many books that I've considered poor because I felt they were too long, and the story suffered for it.

I have to laugh at you calling other people foolish for saying it makes no sense, then highlight that there are many guides available. If it makes sense then why do people need guides? Maybe it's not laziness to involve themselves with Ulysses, maybe they just don't give a ****?

As for War and Peace, it's not a difficult read in the slightest, it's just very, very long. Some may say too long....

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Rory Gallagher wrote: »

How is being of the belief that something makes 'no sense' considered anything but foolish.Of course it makes sense,Many guides exist.Some out there are merely too bloody lazy to involve themselves with Ulysses.

Plenty of books make no sense. Slaughterhouse 5 makes very little sense to me. I've also tried reading some Flann O'Brien and it too makes very little sense.

Callan57

To get back on topic ....

Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes

Meathlass

Finished Burial Rites on Saturday. Very vivid descriptions of time and place. Enjoyed it, slightly haunting in a way.

ivytwine

Finished Slaughterhouse 5. I don't know what I think of it yet.

8mv

Callan57 wrote: »

To get back on topic ....

Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes

I'm in the middle of it. Not sure about it yet. Some very funny passages (A.H. trying to set up an email address made me laugh out loud)

Callan57

8mv wrote: »

I'm in the middle of it. Not sure about it yet. Some very funny passages (A.H. trying to set up an email address made me laugh out loud)

Yea, loved that bit & the dog poo ... I'm roughly 50% into it & really enjoying the originality

OakeyDokey

kylith wrote: »

Welcome to the club! The first two are more 'standard' fantasy, as ivytwine said it's Mort where it really hits its stride.

Just keep the foreseeable future free, because there's a lot of books to get through and if you like them you won't want to stop.

I'm reading The Light Fantastic now after enjoying the first book. Liking it so far and will update when finished

Wyldwood

Finished Maddaddam and really enjoyed it. I love Attwoods work.

On to Hemmingway 's For Whom the Bell Tolls next.

Callan57

Finished Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes ... loved it, so original and very funny.

Now it's on to The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell

Ice Storm

Callan57 wrote: »

Now it's on to The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell

I read this a few years ago. I didn't get into it until about half way through but after that I really enjoyed it. So much so, that I wanted to reread it because I thought I would enjoy the first half on a second read. But I never got around to it unfortunately.

boccy23

Finished A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones Book 1). Brilliant. Haven't watched the TV show but thought the book was excellent.

Now starting A Clash of Kings.

(Bad weekend as Orange is the new back - series 2 is out as well!!!)

OakeyDokey

Started Equal Rights by Terry Pratchett.. Absolutely eating these books up. Really love them

SarahBM

Finished the Black Tulip last night. It was ok. Id say I might have enjoyed it more if I was a plant enthusiast.

Started Blitz.

Pulled Artemis fowel out of the book jar so will het started on them on Monday :-)

Aenaes

I finished The Hourglass by Julie Parsons and I'm kinda sorry I did. I went ahead with it to find out the truths of the backstories. I seem to struggle with Irish books for some reason or other.

Anyway, on to All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia '90 by Pete Davis. Author followed the England team around Italy during the World Cup in 1990. Full of anecdotes and observations supposedly. I cheated by picking this book deliberately and overlooking all the others ahead in the queue so as to get myself in World Cup mode.

ivytwine

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Started Equal Rights by Terry Pratchett.. Absolutely eating these books up. Really love them

Yayyyy! They are amazing, everyone should read them

O Gammy Eato

For fantasy, why waste your time on George RR when the Tales of the Malazan are so much butt-kickingly better?!

O Gammy Eato

Terry Pratchett is way past cool.

O Gammy Eato

Mind you, now that I'm talking to myself, what about Neal Stephenson or China Mieville? They are some seriously good writers with ridiculously good ideas and perspectives.

SarahBM

Just finished Blitz. very good read. Can't believe I read a book in 2days!!! I'm usually so slow!
Going to read Best of Me. Don't judge me, I like Nicholas Sparks
Is say if I keep going like this ill have that read before Monday.
Then I will be starting the Artemis Fowel books.

kylith

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Started Equal Rights by Terry Pratchett.. Absolutely eating these books up. Really love them

Told you!

IvyTheTerrible

I read Burial Rites last week on holidays. I found it good but not absolutely great. I suppose I was expecting too much from it.

Callan57

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

ivytwine

Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin.

AnnyHallsal

I've started Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries. Also enjoying Why the West Rules for Now.

Dave!

Reading George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia currently. Not a whole lot happens, but it's still interesting. I'm just over half way through.

Callan57

Dave! wrote: »

Reading George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia currently. Not a whole lot happens, but it's still interesting. I'm just over half way through.

Found that one a challenge to get through