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Did you read 100 Years of Solitude? It was interesting, but I did not like it. None of the characters were pleasant. I couldn't feel any rapport with any of them. It kind of left me flat.
what are you reading?
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A potboiler type, I'm afraid. The World's Most Infamous Murders. Basically short blurbs about murderers and what they did. Not pleasant, but interesting.
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Haven't read that one, but maybe someday
That sounds extremely interesting! I'll have to see if my library has the ebook
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100 Years of Solitude is a classic, and the form of the book is unusual, if not unique. But the unlikeability of all the characters just let me down. There was no one to "root for".
Lol, I bought the murder book for a couple of dollars. It probably is not in e-book format. One of those sensationalized kind of books, rather gruesome. I am amazed at how some really gruesome murderers are released from prison in Britain after only a few years. It is rather surprising.
Oh, just a few exam help books, a book about nettiquette and another about the worst genocides in history. Just your normal teen stuff.
I'm reading "Positive" by Paige Rawl. It's about how she found out that she's diagnosed HIV+ (she got it from birth), the obstacles she faced when she told a close friend, and how she overcame those obstacles. It's a really good book and I recommend it to anyone.
Right now I'm reading "The Mole People" it's about homeless people that live under New York city,it's pretty cool,apparently there is so much living space due to prior construction that there are many communities living for generations down there.
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Just finished The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, written in 1923. It is a gentle, English book. I recommend it highly for women who like English books.
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Bumping this thread because I like books. Currently reading England, Arise: The People, the King, & the Great Revolt of 1381 by Juliet Barker. She uses the term 'Great Revolt' rather than 'Peasants' Revolt' because many of the people who revolted were not peasants.
A post three weeks ago... but i did read that Colombian novel coz it was required. Unlike u, i found it captivating, for one who didnt like to read long novels at the time. There's a passage i have written in an old notebook, but i have to dig that up, for there is no time to search thru the novel itself.
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I'm still working my way through "The Confessions of Saint Augustine". I can only read a little, then I have to put it down and reflect on it. I see a LOT of myself in him.
Some nights when I can't sleep, I am reading one of the books in the Area 51 series by Robert Doherty. Total fiction, but easy reads and kind of fun.
Some nights when I can't sleep, I am reading one of the books in the Area 51 series by Robert Doherty. Total fiction, but easy reads and kind of fun.
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I have a few books going at the same time; " Christiana", by John Bunyan."Standing strong" , by John MacArthur.
And nibbling on ," The seventh trumpet and the seven thunders" by Russel Stendahl.All theological books at the moment but I am keen to lighten things up by downloading some Kindle versions of Americana or Australiana novels .....perhaps " Poor man's Orange" .
Or " Of mice and men" will be next.
And nibbling on ," The seventh trumpet and the seven thunders" by Russel Stendahl.All theological books at the moment but I am keen to lighten things up by downloading some Kindle versions of Americana or Australiana novels .....perhaps " Poor man's Orange" .
Or " Of mice and men" will be next.
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With me, if I don't care about the characters, I get depressed and simply dislike a book. None of the characters in Solitude were sympathetic. I disliked all of them. The book was interesting, but I can not stand a book with no likeable characters. I read it shortly after reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. I liked and sympathized with Hans Castorp so very much, that coming off such a like for a character and subsequently reading a book with no redeeming characters was a let down.
I will say the structure of Solitude was interesting, and it was well written. I simply hated all the characters and felt singularly uninspired reading it. It was a downer.
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The Grapes of Wrath is a beautiful book and almost turned me into a Socialist. If you have never seen the 1940(?) film with Henry Fonda, after you read the book- watch the film. It is one of the best adaptations, ever. You won't regret seeing it.
I did not like Steinbeck's Winter of Our Discontent. I think because I did not like the characters.
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I bought a copy of Paradise Lost by John Milton late last year and I started reading it yesterday.
It is a reflection on the Christian story of the fall of man. Very awe inspiring.
It is a reflection on the Christian story of the fall of man. Very awe inspiring.