July - what are you reading?

[Tolen Mar]

I just recommended Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell to my brother in law. I can't recommend it enough. Anyone who hasn't picked it up yet really should.

 

[Asmo]

I just recommended Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell to my brother in law. I can't recommend it enough. Anyone who hasn't picked it up yet really should.

I´ve read 200 pages, and I must admit that I´m struggling with the book.
She writes alot, but nothing much happens - I hope it will get better soon.

Asmo

 

[Tolen Mar]

I´ve read 200 pages, and I must admit that I´m struggling with the book.
She writes alot, but nothing much happens - I hope it will get better soon.

Asmo

Now that you mention it, I recall that feeling as well my first time through.
Try to stick with it, and I think you'll be satisfied by the end (or like me, wish it hadn't ended yet).

I don't recall exactly where the break point came and things started picking up, but I dont think its too far from where you are at.

 

[Pielorinho]

Two things I say about Jonathan Strange.

First, it's a book to groove on the style. Her writing is beautiful and elegant, and the footnotes are hilarious, as long as you can get into their bone-dry sense of humor.

Second, make sure you stick it out until there's a road in France. If you make it fifty pages past the road in France and you're not swept up in it yet, it may just not be the book for you.

Daniel

 

[Tetsubo]

With Arrow, Sword, and Spear: A History of Warfare in the Ancient World by Alfred S. Bradford

 

[frankthedm]

 

[Tolen Mar]

Two things I say about Jonathan Strange.

First, it's a book to groove on the style. Her writing is beautiful and elegant, and the footnotes are hilarious, as long as you can get into their bone-dry sense of humor.

Second, make sure you stick it out until there's a road in France. If you make it fifty pages past the road in France and you're not swept up in it yet, it may just not be the book for you.

Daniel

I agree wholeheartedly here. I did one thing to my copy that I never do to any of my books, which is highlighting passages. Some of the footnotes were so droll I had to mark them so I could come back to them (or use them as bait to lure other readers in).

And the road in France sounds about right. The pacing was slow going for a while, but worth it just to read the footnotes.

Once I get past the last Harry Potter, I've been thinking about reading "Who censored Roger Rabbit?" Anyone read this one? Thoughts?

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I also recommend Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. It is “veddy Brittish,” but I enjoy the style.

Having finished, at long last, Blood Meridian (good Lord did that book kick my arse) I am now rereading The Gunslinger.

I read Roger Rabbit after the movie came out years ago and it was probably the worst book I’ve ever read. It bears little resemblance to the movie, save the name of characters. In everything else it is deeply different, a dreadful pastiche of noir-detective novels. Spend your money on anything else before you buy that book.

 

[Pielorinho]

Having finished, at long last, Blood Meridian (good Lord did that book kick my arse)

Oh, man. Yeah, I have really clear memories of reading that book in a low-rent conference center, glued in horror to each page. It's a combination of intricate philosophy, brutal history, and bizarre bizarrity (I don't even know what to call passages such as the drum-sand). Not an easy read, but I can't imagine not finishing it. McCarthy's a wild man.

I want to read his postapocalyptic novel, but I'm kinda scared to .

Daniel

 

[Chaldfont]

I want to read his postapocalyptic novel, but I'm kinda scared to .

If you mean The Road... *shudder*

Wow, what a book... Good, but hard to recommend in a Shindler's List kind of way.

I just moved on to World War Z after getting my turn in the hold line at the library. 18 pages into at and I'm already hooked.