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Ohhhhh there’s a point there. “As usual”, you’re seeing what you want to see. Not terrible in the least, most certainly by bloody children’s books standards. The proper title, which you failed to use, is pretty silly though. Nor did I in any way “imply” it should be read. There are a great...

_The Beauty in Finding Situations to Ask Really Stupid Questions_ Sounds like you have a best seller there. I’ve got one for you: go to a gallery’s opening night and ask the artist, “if I buy this and take it home, if it doesn’t match my sofa and carpet, will you come in and add the proper...

What I *do* realize is that some really dimwitted people that hang around a Book Forum but rarely talk about books may “think” so. As with everything, I consider the source. Thanks for your ever-so vacant input. j

This is this. People love it, what can I say. I always get a kick out of the crowd that can’t be arsed to read a little history on their own, especially on places in the news *every day*, especially places they’ve bombed the shit out of, and then feel enlightened after getting a little...

…sigh… Novella, dear heart, you’re quickly approaching post number 2’500. Please, try to write *something* with _some_ value before then. I don’t have my money on it, but I’m on the sidelines cheering you on. The kiddie pool is on your left… j

Hollywood talk. I dunno. I’m to understand that Hosseini was never really interested in writing 8I think he has a medical background?) and just shat this thing out, and I’d have to say with some molding by some editors. Maybe in the time before the book deal he had a half-decent story, maybe...

Well, I honestly don’t find most books _that_ challenging that I need a holiday from quality. But some of the writers I enjoy that are, I guess, easier on the mental digestive system: Elmore Leonard Ben Elton Donald E. Westlake (older stuff – e.g. _Humans_) Sometimes I take the time...

Hmmm, for some reason I received no email alerts on this thread… As you’re allowed to. While I blanch at anyone thinking themselves as a “perfect” writer, King, by every definition aside from sales, is a really poor writer. And I highly question that kind of technician writing a book (or...

You’re stretching it…either way; there are quite a few good, let alone very-good authors that are also not used within the schooling system. No, but just the title alone gives me the itches… For the record, when I was in knee pants I tried _The Hobbit_ and found it to be less...

Yes, I don’t say it’s not a fun/interesting book. I only brought it up again so that the original poster didn’t mistakenly pick that up first. Generally if one is asking about some introductory (fiction) by someone I don’t recommend essays/non-fiction, or at least without being very clear about...

Sorry if you feel you were ‘bullied’ to read that entirely over-long, hardly well crafted book you are now flipping through. Oddly enough, even though there are a lot of horror and fantasy/SF fans here, I don’t believe anyone has yet figured out how to force someone, especially over the...

It gets worse… _Ulysses_ is completely readable, but ‘the wake’ *is* befuddling. Maybe after you (finally) read _Dubliners_ you can convince him to hit that or ‘Portrait’. j Who has no problem turning off a ‘disbelief’ system but even with no sense of small, shite is still shite.

While I’m ignoring more and more work I might as well close something I left open, not that anyone gives a gawdamn: I previously left 2 things in the air for those that love to defend children’s book. I once mentioned “ruby slippers” and once mentioned the “Lollipop Guild”, which I even on...

The first 100 pages of _The Kite Runner_ are almost-ok. And then it cascades into damn near every cliché a writer could ever pull. He leap-frogs Danny Brown in some areas. Sickening. There are PLENTY of books on the ‘middle east’ if one just wants to learn about stuff…kind of like there are...

Hmmm. Blisteringly overrated, as they say. I prefer to be an „island“, for this „continent“ is farrrrrrrrr too scary and the more and more I see I prefer to remain UN”involved”. Although “clod”, in the R. Crumb use of the word, is fitting… Tone-deaf to unharmonious bells, j

As my bi-line for this thread was „The Death of Literacy“ I figured this would be an ok thread to keep alive. I’ve recently had a few different thoughts on this corpse-like state that Literacy is in. Now I’m dating myself (no, that’s not a masturbation reference…) here but there may be a...

Will someone please bring Stewart a cuppa coffee??!! And maybe let him know the book he’s reading aint veddy much better than Da Code? Annnnnnnnnnnd that he has _The Historian_ on order? Good golly, j

Phenomenal read. Enjoy it. Now there’s a telling sign of the times: one can’t be arsed to carry a book, but gotta have that cell phone! [insert smiley with loaded gun to head] Annnnnyway, how are these downloads free? Like illegal=free or are they things written specifically for this...

A new article: http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article307323.ece

Name me any other published author that does that and I will not only refund you the book, but I will buy you 3 books of your choice (unless I’m reallllllly insistent that my money never support such crap). This is, of course, based on your ability to explain *WHY* you didn’t like it. Not a...