I read this one for book club a while ago. I didn’t really like it. The story seemed to really drag on and the ending wasn’t very exciting or anything. It is very educational, however. If you are interested in a day in the life of a slave labor camp, this one is for you. It is also well written, just not my style.
I really enjoyed reading this series. It reminded me of Twilight. I’m not sure which one I like better. I would probably say Twilight, but I think that only because I read it first. I would highly recommend this to someone who liked Twilight.
I finally did it. I finished the sixth book in the Outlanders series. It took some serious work to push myself through. I really enjoy this series, the characters are fantastic! But, my word, at a thousand pages each it gets tiresome. I was feeling relieved and looking forward to that feeling of anticipation that comes while you’re waiting for the next book in the series, when I found out that the book 7 comes out in less that 40 days! That’s just too soon for me. But, you know I’ll read it!One thing I have to say about Diana Gabaldon is that her facts are incredible. I just cannot fathom knowing as many details as she does and figuring out how to make them fit in the books. It’s crazy. I had to keep telling myself that when I was reading page after page of mind numbing detail, waiting for the action to start.Bottom line, I really love these books, just don’t read them back to back to back…
I just want to mention that I finished the fourth book in the Outlanders series by Diana Gabaldon. I liked it almost as much as her first one. It is definitely better than 2 and 3. I have just started book 5, the Fiery Cross. I’m hoping that it will be more like 1 and 4. We’ll see… I am getting an iPod Touch this Friday and I am thinking I may download this book to the iPod and see how it is to read it from a screen. It sure would be easier to balance the iPod while nursing than the gigantic hardback book from the library!
I’m Jean, and Jenny has very kindly asked me to be a guest blogger here. I’ll be taking the Chunkster Challenge. I’ve already screwed up the signup process, so we’re off to a good start! Here are the rules:
1. Who Murdered Chaucer?*A chunkster is 450 pages or more of ADULT literature (fiction or nonfiction) Don’t complain folks, I read all thousands of pages of the Twilight series and they were good, but not a challenge. A chunkster should be a challenge.
*If you read large type books your book will need to be 525 pages or more I asked around and the average LT book is 10-15% longer or more so I think that was a fair estimate.
*No Audio books in the chunkster. It just doesn’t seem right. Words on paper for this one folks.
* You may start any time after signing up. You must complete your reads before or on Nov 15th.
*Short Stories and Essay collections will not be counted.
*Books may crossover with other challenges (see option 4 for a collaborative effort with TBR challenge)
*Only option 4 requires that you make a set list of books to complete the challenge.
It’s too late to sign up for the TBR Challenge or I’d do that too, but I’m going to go for option 3:
*Mor-book-ly Obese - This is for the truly out of control chunkster. For this level of challenge you must commit to 6 or more chunksters OR three tomes of 750 pages or more. You know you want to…..go on and give in to your cravings.
I don’t have a full list of books I want to read yet, but I’ll post that soon. I’ll be starting with Terry Jones’ Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery. Surprisingly, it’s only 360 pages of text (not counting notes and so on); the book weighs a ton, because it’s printed on fancy shiny paper. There are small color illustrations throughout, not just in an insert. I have no idea whether it’s any good, or historically plausible, or anything like that–I had always thought that Chaucer died of the plague–but I like Terry Jones, and I enjoyed his Barbarians quite a bit, so here goes.
A preliminary, tentative list:
2. Liberal Fascism
3. The Forgotten Man
4. Carlyle’s French Revolution
5. ?
6. ?
Gee, I think I need some fiction in there. Maybe some Dickens?