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Irene Wilde
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I'm 30 pages from the end of "If on a Winter's Night...." and I was loving the book up until it took an odd turn, which may yet, in the final pages, be redeemed, but for right now it upset the rhythm of the book for me. Still recommendable at this point, though I'd rate "Cosmicomics" higher.
Irene Wilde
Irene Wilde
Finished Everything is Illuminated It's a book about a Jew that returns to the ukraine to seek the woman that saved his grandfather from the Nazi. Along the way you get to learn the histoy line. In other chapters it deals with the present and his journey.
Really good writing. Some really beautiful lines within this book. It's very very sad in places and very funny in others. Powerful and thought provoking stuff.
Really good writing. Some really beautiful lines within this book. It's very very sad in places and very funny in others. Powerful and thought provoking stuff.
«Fickle~Minded»
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--Just finished A TimeTo Kill by John Grisham,worth reading,the ending makes me shed some tears. 
Just fininished reading Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes
I did not enjoy this book. Itwas heralded as a literary crime thriller. Set in Bollywood, with characters like Prosper and Mirander and Rozalind. I found it to be a self indulgent work, which tried to hard to be profound and clever with useage of intelligent language and alegory and science theory like chaos of the weather amongst its offering. The reality I found was a unsatisying mixture which had a thoroughly dislikeable main character. Perhaps she was mean't to be hard, like a world weary private eye, but she was unlikeable and didn't care if she came to a sticky end...
The Indian setting was the best bit of the novel. The author did manage to capture the exotic flavour and the mixture of Indian life and it was highly descriptive. However India played secondly to a violent and sordid piece, which left a unflavourable aftertaste. The cleverness of the language could not hide this nor the thoroughly disappointing ending. The baddie was the same baddie from the start, except a little more bad and up to worse acts.
A really irritating part was the division of the book into the cast and Acts instead of chapters. I felt this added to the pretentious nature of the book. Plus there was a obligatory Shakespeare quoting character.
All in all Not very good
Gillian
I did not enjoy this book. Itwas heralded as a literary crime thriller. Set in Bollywood, with characters like Prosper and Mirander and Rozalind. I found it to be a self indulgent work, which tried to hard to be profound and clever with useage of intelligent language and alegory and science theory like chaos of the weather amongst its offering. The reality I found was a unsatisying mixture which had a thoroughly dislikeable main character. Perhaps she was mean't to be hard, like a world weary private eye, but she was unlikeable and didn't care if she came to a sticky end...
The Indian setting was the best bit of the novel. The author did manage to capture the exotic flavour and the mixture of Indian life and it was highly descriptive. However India played secondly to a violent and sordid piece, which left a unflavourable aftertaste. The cleverness of the language could not hide this nor the thoroughly disappointing ending. The baddie was the same baddie from the start, except a little more bad and up to worse acts.
A really irritating part was the division of the book into the cast and Acts instead of chapters. I felt this added to the pretentious nature of the book. Plus there was a obligatory Shakespeare quoting character.
All in all Not very good
Gillian
petulant_seraph
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Just finished Vonneguts Sirens of Titan more SF than I'd usually go for but thoroughly enjoyable and I was able to suspend disbelief (not a trait of mine). I loved his use of 'quotes' to explain matters. Now feel the urge to re-read his other books
Jenem
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Just finished From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury. Overall, I enjoyed the book very much, but (in typical Bradbury style) some parts were a bit long-winded and slow. But what a fun story! (or collection of stories) Somewhat like the Addams Family, but more interesting and widespread. The illustration on the inside cover (which is on the front of some earlier editions) is wonderful!
I like Ray Bradbury! He writes really beautiful prose and his stories are always crammed with interesting ideas, wonder and strange stuff 
I always mean to read more of him because I have not read that much. I do think that he does tend to ramble a bit, and the story can be slow, and sometimes he seems more interested in writing something beautiful and trying out ideas than he does with the plot. However, nothing wrong with that
I always mean to read more of him because I have not read that much. I do think that he does tend to ramble a bit, and the story can be slow, and sometimes he seems more interested in writing something beautiful and trying out ideas than he does with the plot. However, nothing wrong with that 
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