thelondongal
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Hmm, I looked up about both Skulduggery Pleasant and Alcatraz... I might give the first book in each of those series' a go. If I don't care for them, I'd be willing to bet #2 son will enjoy them. Thanks for the recs! (lately my choice in books has really sucked)
Truthwitch sounds rather like it would be a waste of time and money. I always thought one of the basic rules of writing was 'don't give your characters similar sounding names'.
No thank you. I'll go read Tamora Pierce for the bazillionth time.
So slow. McEwan's schtick is he sets a great hook, and then drags you through 27 pages of pointless, dull descriptions of daisies nodding in the breeze and the filigreed lacework of grease in a pan of roast potatoes before he finally writes anything plot worthy. It's one of those books where the movie is actually better because the movie doesn't have time to navel gaze ad nauseum about pretty scenery. (And I say that as someone who can't even stand Keira Knightly).I actually started reading Atonement pretty recently. It's so well written but really really (really!) slow.......
Magician: Apprentice, by Raymond E. Feist - Another "classic" epic fantasy. Nice ideas, but the execution didn't do it for me.
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I'd heard great things about Love in the Time of Cholera but I still hold that that book is pretty turdish.
The Riddlemaster of Hed by Patricia McKillip. Most of the other fantasy fans I know rave about that book, but it had somehow flown under my radar (in spite of most of my favorite SFF writers being women). So I picked it up and gave it a try, and I couldn't get past the first chapter. It was completely "WTF" for me. I didn't get the pov, the voice, the setting, or the motives of the characters (or even who the protagonist was). I guess the title says it all--it's supposed to be puzzling and elusive, but I guess I'm not "bright" enough as a reader to sort it out. I've been told you have to "submit" to the narrative style and then it's the best book ever, but I guess I'm not a literary submissive
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyezsky. I didn't even make it to the murder.