Archive for the ‘Abandoned’ Category
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart! Lydia Millet Fiction Started 8/31/06, abandoned 9/1/06-ish Ugh. Too dreamy for me, which is too bad, because the premise is awesome. Three nuclear scientists are transported, at the moment of their first nuclear test, to the modern world, to see what they helped create. Such a great premise, and not [...]
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Abandoned – The Unconsoled
The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro Fiction Started 8/16, Abandoned 8/20 I get it, but it’s boring and irritating to read. I’ve decided to spare myself. Also, I don’t want to sour on Ishiguro, as he is brilliant and this is just not for me. Mini rant: I hate opacity – why do authors insist on it? [...]
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To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis Sci-Fi Read 10/28/05 – My Grade: ugh I stopped reading this 11/10/05. I’m halfway through – page 226, but it’s been a slog. The book is cute, and there are cheerful hijinks, but I’m mysteriously not enjoying it. So, I’m moving on. Bookmark! From the art book, [...]
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Unfinished – The Waves
The Waves Virginia Woolf Read from 7/14/05 to never I didn’t finish this one. It doesn’t seem to be about anything. It’s just about the style in which it is written, and that style is not my favorite. This is the type of book that would be considered pretentious and ridiculous if someone wrote it [...]
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The Fortress of Solitude By Jonathan Lethem Fiction Read from 4/15/05 – 5/2/05 Unfinished (which is a grade in and of itself, I guess) I’ve also read Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn. Okay, look. I give up. I know this is a good book, and Lethem is a good writer. But it’s just not clicking for me. [...]
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