Recent content by Bonzo

That is an annoyance, SFG75, but I'm very careful with my books so that doesn't usually happen to me. Me, I prefer paperbacks. I find them easier to read and hold. Plus, the covers on hardcover books (I'm sure there's a proper term for them - slip covers, maybe?) annoy the hell out of me...

Oh, I did. Both on the radio and when I was in Ireland on vacation.

Sometimes I feel sad that it's over, but most of the time I'm satisfied (if it was good), annoyed (if the book didn't satisfy me), or just anxious if I know that I'm going to read something that greatly interests me next.

This, or something similar, was a very small fad at my school a few years ago. So small, in fact, that only about ten people did it before realizing how stupid and dangerous it was. They would somehow make themselves pass out, for no apparent reason. One girl smacked her head on a bathroom floor...

Bonzo was John Bonham's nickname (Bonham was the drummer for Led Zeppelin, for those of you who don't know). I also used it as my nickname when I volunteered at a day camp earlier this year.

I am reading Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and loving it.

In the first Harry Potter book (and maybe a few others in the series, I haven't read them in ages), there was a centaur with my name (Ronan). It surprised me because my name is very uncommon, at least in Canada.

Romée Dallaire's Shake Hands With the Devil is a great one. Dallaire was the UN Force Commander in Rwanda during the genocide in 1994, and the book is all about the events leading up to, and during, the genocide. It's a very powerful book, and Dallaire does not hold back on criticizing the...

Well, speaking as a teenage boy, I can agree with most of what you said about us. However, that truth doesn't make me like Holden more.

To Rogue: Yes, Atlantic Canada does mean the east coast. "Atlantic Canada" covers PEI, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. And yes, I really did love 1984, from beginning to end.

There's a longer response in this thread, but in short: I didn't like it.

This might get me killed, but I didn't like The Catcher in the Rye. After a while, it seemed like the word "phony" or "depressing" was present in every sentence. It felt repetitive - Holden talks to, or meets, somebody, gets along pretty well with them, then whines about how phony they are...

I wasn't a big fan of The Five People You Meet in Heaven. To me, it felt like the same thing as Tuesdays with Morrie - instead of Mitch visiting an old teacher and learning lessons of life, it was Eddie dying and learning lessons of life. Albom's writing was pretty good, but nothing in the book...

I didn't say thet the plot didn't feel right, I said the twist didn't feel right. The book was great up until that point, and the anti-climax was fine, but it's only the twist that I didn't like. It's still a very good book, IMO. The book wasn't ruined because of it, but the twist didn't really...

Hello all, I'm Bonzo (no, not my real name) from Atlantic Canada. This year, I've been reading much moreso than I have been in recent years. The other message boards I frequent don't have book forums that are used very much, so I simply typed, "book forum" into Google and this was the first site...