This needs some explaining. After rating many hundreds of read books, this one had me the most perplexed as to how to rate it. I was thinking, either a 3 or a 5. A three, or a five?! It was suggested I average it out as a 4, but that seemed to me to just misrepresent both ratings.There is no questio...
bookshelves: off-tbr-and-into-wpb, summer-2014, abandoned, tbr-busting-2014, next Read in July, 2014 There is a reason why some books loiter on the ereader for a long time. I couldn't get along with this without my top lip curling and that, dear friends, is a bad sign.
Not only was this book a bestseller, you can find superlatives among the blurbs like "great American novel" and "thrilling page-turner." This book was runner-up in a 2006 New York Times survey of eminent authors and critics for best American novel in the last 25 years. All I can say is I felt about ...
This needs some explaining. After rating many hundreds of read books, this one had me the most perplexed as to how to rate it. I was thinking, either a 3 or a 5. A three, or a five?! It was suggested I average it out as a 4, but that seemed to me to just misrepresent both ratings.There is no questio...
This needs some explaining. After rating many hundreds of read books, this one had me the most perplexed as to how to rate it. I was thinking, either a 3 or a 5. A three, or a five?! It was suggested I average it out as a 4, but that seemed to me to just misrepresent both ratings.There is no questio...
Well, it is just all over the place and it doesn't really rap up much but I guess that's part of the point. I still couldn't put it down so what does that tell you?
I read this some while back, during a break from college if I recall. I was hearing a lot about it as this great book, but I just could not get into it at all.
I'm surprised to see how many people here had the exact same reaction I did. They start reading, they find a few bits that seem quite gripping and well-written, they lose momentum, and they stop. Some hypotheses:- None of us are smart enough to get the point.- There is a clear point, but you have to...
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