Hours of sitting on planes and in hospitals the past week allowed me to indulge in five more books from the cursed list. I won't bother with thorough synopsis as I'd probably just crib 'em from Amazon anyway, but here are the titles I read and my brief comments and ranks.
The God of Small Things - Caste system, India, relatively short, won the Booker: A
Gabriel's Gift - The guy who wrote Buddha of Suburbia, funny, deals with music, pleasant ending: A
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow, hilarious, almost Ignatius Reilly-worthy main character, Andrew would love it: A+
The Story of Lucy Gault - Trevor, 19th century-ish story, depressing as hell: B-
Schooling- Hard to read but adventurous prose style, too close to Catholic school girl angst I had to witness in real life, points for being different. B
6 comments:
I absolutely LOVE Henderson! Great novel, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the rec on Never Let Me Go, what a neat book. Man you're really checking them off. I'd say you are a litterbug and an ermine now!
No.
And as soon as I check The Watchmen off the list you'll be changing your tune!
Man, I couldn't read that many books in a year. Unfortunately I just blew an Amazon gift card on music. Oh well. I guess I'll stick to reading People and TeenBeat.
Listen to the Ph.D. trying to sound unintellectual. Anyone buying it?
Not at all.
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