Thursday, February 19, 2009

I ain't ferget ya!

Sorry I haven't posted, even while getting my 2nd "Annsta-launche" of the week, I've been reading and writing all day long!

What are you reading lately? If you don't like a book while you're reading it, do you bail or slog on in hope? What was the last book you read you really didn't like, ultimately?

9 comments:

Darcy said...

I'm reading Foucault's Pendulum. A friend recommended!

The last book I read that I really didn't like, basically because the ending was anti-climactic and sloppy, was The Club Dumas.

Crank that book out, Ronski!

Christy said...

I loved The Club Dumas and went on to read everything Reverte-Perez has written. While I agree the ending wasn't all it could have been, the journey intrigued. Besides, The Three Musketeers was an important book in my young girlhood. Do you see the ending as confirming the mysticism or as the ending of a deluded man?

Foucault's Pendulum isn't so different a book, is it? I enjoyed it, in that it gave me tangents to explore, but Eco tends to over-demonstrate, at least for my taste. Why stop at one example when there exists 50? Do you see it as a comic novel? I did, but I suspect I'm in the minority.

I finished George Friedman's America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and Its Enemies.
Published in '04, but it still important background I never learned from either the newspapers, TV, or the blogs. I needed a book just now that didn't treat either our government nor our enemies as complete idiots. I want to know why our enemies, and our allies, behave as they do, even if I don't like it. Then as a palliative I listened again to Terry Pratchett's Thud. Discworld novels are perfect for listening.

Darcy said...

Hi, Christy!

You nailed it. I didn't know whether the ending was a confirmation of the mysticism or madness! Sloppy. It just ended so abruptly. But yes...I very much enjoyed the mystery and the chase.
I think that's why I was so disappointed...it could have been so much more!

I do get a similar feel with Pendulum so far. I'm not that far along though, but I know what you mean and I even mentioned the Reverte book to my friend.

So far, I'm enjoying the amusing repartee between the characters and the suspenseful set up. Will have so much more to say in a few days!

Very interesting choice for current reading! I need escape right now from the dire situation we seem to be in.

Christy said...

To answer Ron's question, I slog through to the end if I'm reading for a book club, most of the time. I didn't finish Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher the novel cited in her Nobel Prize. Worthless piece of crap, but maybe I was just disappointed in the translation. The shocking scenes that formed the book's center lacked meaning or interest and struck me a juvenile.

Let's hear more about what Ron is writing. Link to an earlier posting?

Ron said...

Cindy, I am working on a novel! (plus some screenplay ideas...) I do have parts of the novel here on the blog, but they were put on before I started using tags, so I can't recall where they are!

Darcy got a chapter to read...

Ron said...

aha! Search the blog for "Wendy", and "The Wendy Story" appears in sections...check it out! (not all posted on the blog, mind! After 8 parts I felt people were uninterested...)

Ron said...

Ufda! I wrote "Cindy" when I meant "Christy!" M'bad! I was actually talking to a Cindy on the phone even though I said Christy in my head and look what I type! I'm gettin' demented clearly...

Christy said...

I didn't take it personally.

The Preacherman said...

Stuart Maconnie 'Pies and Prejudice'

Buy it, read it, Enjoy!!!!