I'm trying to be better about writing at least a little blurb about each book I read. Trying being the operative word here. The blurb, if and when I do get around to writing it, will of course happen after the book has been finished. So, in the beginning, what may show up here is just the book's basic information, title, author, date I began reading it. But feel free to comment on the book even if I haven't yet written anything about it. I always like talking about books!
For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails…and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever. --Curse for book thieves by Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937)
The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
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God’s Debris, Scott Adams
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Loved the book. Will probably find ways to bring it up in conversations and insist that people read it.
Liked it well enough. Would probably say that it's a good read, except for [fill in the blank].
Liked it well enough to finish the book but I wouldn't recommend that someone else read it.
So bad I couldn't finish the book. If someone mentioned the book title to me I'd probably shake my head and tell him not to waste his time or money.
Reading is Fundamental
So many books, so little time
Book: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Start Date: 07/16/05
End Date: 07/21/05
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After reading the 5th book (all 800 pages of it) I wondered aloud if Rowling was being paid by the word. I felt then that the story went for far too long and I feel the same way about this book although at 650 pages, it’s clear she showed a little bit of restratint. I like to read and I enjoy the Potter books but 600 pages of build-up is just too much even for me. I consistenly found myself skipping sections of the book all the while thinking, “Come on. Get on with it. Where’s the action?” And then, finally, it happened but it happened so fast I was left feeling a bit cheated. The ending was a bit heavy handed, just over the top melodrama. Overall I don’t think the book was as good as its predecessors. Although that may just be that I’m running out of patience with the whole story. I don’t even know if I care anymore whether Voldermort or Harry dies, I just want to know how the whole thing ends already.
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