Flying on 2nd-hand wings. - my own wore out!...;-)
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Leeds and London
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Originally Posted by xxhappydaysxx
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. Its good so far and pretty easy to follow/read.
Before this I read The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka which was really good.
I loved 'Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake' until the brother started turning into a chair (and other inanimate objects). That was taking 'magic realism' a little too far, I reckon!
I'm taking an intellectual hiatus and reading Diane Chamberlain books - I loved 'Fire and Rain'. I also read Katie Piper's 'Beautiful' because a friend asked me t, I never normally read misery memoirs) - and it was fantastic. I was in tears.
Last night I finished Homer's Odyssey. It took me forever. Seriously, I read Atlas Shrugged, a 1100-page monolith of a book, in half the time it took me to read this. I liked it, but I have a feeling I'd prefer a more straightforward translation than the flowery, show-offy one I read.
Currently reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. I'm about a third of the way through it, and I'm enjoying it so far. I have two complaints though: the protagonist is a nine-year-old girl, and I think King made her a little too intelligent and mature to be believable. Yeah, she breaks down and cries a lot, like any nine-year-old would when lost in the woods, but her thoughts and inner monologues are too "grown-up." It's hard to take seriously. The other complaint is more minor, and a little petty and nerdish of me: Trisha (the protagonist) loses her balance and rolls down a rocky hill. Her Gameboy breaks, but her Walkman doesn't. Gameboys are far more durable than Walkmans. Hell, they're more durable than most buildings. I call bullshit.
Last edited by The War Doctor : 08-12-2011 at 04:51 PM.
