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    Patrick Suskind - Perfume

    in General Fiction

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    I really enjoyed it. I read it about 5 years ago after a word of mouth recommendation and I hadn't heard any hype about it and it was obviously before thoughts of a film. I wonder whether its a case of a book not living up to the hype or people having too many expectations of what a book will be like

    What are your top 5 books? Very difficult Eay!

    in General Book Discussions

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    Ummmm.....top five books (non classics) at the moment are:

    1. Haweswater by Sarah Hall

    2. The Discovery of Chocolate by James Runcie

    3. Distant Music by Lee Langley

    4. Music and Silence by Rose Tremain

    5. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

     

    Distant Music has just been sent to me from Amazon. It's not the sort of book I would usually read si I'm looking forward to it. I'll let you know what I think

    Ronny's 2007 book list

    in Past Book Logs

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    I will definitely give him another try, as I did like the style of the writing.

     

    I was thinking of the Wind Up Bird Chronicles or Norwegian Wood, do you have a favorite of his?

     

    I would highly recommend Wind Up Bird Chronicle, I found Norwegian Wood a bit amateurish, I think he was still trying to find his style

    Andy's Blook bog (started 2006)

    in Past Book Logs

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    Well, I've finally finished Snow. Good grief. It's a book that should have fascinated me. The subject matter itself is great. But they style of the book is horrible, the way the author imposes himself more and more into the book, but does it in such a clunky way. The long, tedious, moping descriptions of emotions, of the tender, oh so tender and delicate and fragile emotions. Please. ****ing please. Gah! And, instead of being a fun tale of a revolution or coup, it's all about a bloody poet. And the bloody poet has poems "come to him" yet we never get to see them. It's all created by deus ex machina, but with no explanation, and no point. It's meaningless. Bleh! And the bloody hyperemotional poet/main protagonist annoys me so much, with a page of "oh, how miserable he felt when he saw in her eyes that she didn't truly love him but wanted instead to show him compassion" followed by him doing something on impulse with no explanation. Book moved on by "He suddenly saw a man and felt he had to follow him".

     

    Aaaaaaargh!

     

    Thank god its over.

     

    I'm reading Yes Man by Danny Wallace now. Thank god for fluffy books.

     

    I read My Name is Red and felt exactly the same way, maybe it's list in translaton but I have no desire to read anything more by him. Life is too short

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