Most recently, (just finished this last weekend):
I suppose... with a title like "Wicked", you should expect a dark book. And, quite dumbly, I was caught off guard by it's darkness. I was actually grossed out a bit in a few parts. BUT, what most irked me in this book (and I had similar feelings regarding "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand) was, that it is really a Philosophy book, cleverly disguised as a novel. I'm all for Philosophy books, and I have to be, my husband is one of those Philosophers, BUT please don't try to package that in a story form! When I opened this book, I wanted a story, a story from Oz. But really it was a debate on the nature of evil. And this book was filled with animal rights agendas and just entirely too political for me. Hmph. I was thoroughly disappointed.
Ball 2:
A classic!, I had heard. Every person should read this book!, I had also heard. Life changing! Translated in hundreds of languages! Read by millions! Whelp, personally, I was bored. I am just not a fantasy, mystical-ly kind of girl. I had a hard time not laughing at this boy's encounters with the sun and the wind and desert and his sheep. All his dreams and destiny, bleh. It seems, if anything, this story would best be told outloud, at night, around a campfire, by an Indian smoking a pipe or by an African with a thick accent. THEN, I might buy into it. But for now, I'm just not drinkin' Coelho's kool-aid.
Does anyone have a good book they could toss my way?
2 comments:
Just read a sweet one called The Sugar Queen. Loved it. And you may have already read it, but The Help is seriously one of the best books ever. Also, I read Gone With the Wind last summer and couldn't put it down.
Good luck!
That was from Erica. :)
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