Hey gorgeous - long time no see. But since you've actually posted on something I can comment on...
I've got to say that Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Life of Pi were both surprisingly good reads. I read a pre-published version of Life of Pi, so hopefully all of the typos in the version I read were wiped out before the final version, but I still really enjoyed it. It was sort of whimsical.
And The Grapes of Wrath was way better than Of Mice and Men - we were forced to read the later for school, and I'm buggered if I can work out why they picked it and not The Grapes of Wrath.
Now I've got Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush going round and round my head on loop - just the "it's me it's Cathy I've come home I'm so cold let me in at your window" part. But I agree with your opinion on the book - it was just so hard to read the parts written in dialect and I actually found it pretty boring as well.
I'm not sure if you'll like The Lovely Bones - I loved it, but I tend to think that it's a chick book. I found it fascinating because of the psychology involved and I know others who loved it because of the spirituality, but the story centres so much on the female characters that, to be honest, I'm not sure whether you'd enjoy it. Anyway, will be interested to hear what you think once you've read it.
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Date: 2006-04-04 10:29 pm (UTC)I've got to say that Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Life of Pi were both surprisingly good reads. I read a pre-published version of Life of Pi, so hopefully all of the typos in the version I read were wiped out before the final version, but I still really enjoyed it. It was sort of whimsical.
And The Grapes of Wrath was way better than Of Mice and Men - we were forced to read the later for school, and I'm buggered if I can work out why they picked it and not The Grapes of Wrath.
Now I've got Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush going round and round my head on loop - just the "it's me it's Cathy I've come home I'm so cold let me in at your window" part. But I agree with your opinion on the book - it was just so hard to read the parts written in dialect and I actually found it pretty boring as well.
I'm not sure if you'll like The Lovely Bones - I loved it, but I tend to think that it's a chick book. I found it fascinating because of the psychology involved and I know others who loved it because of the spirituality, but the story centres so much on the female characters that, to be honest, I'm not sure whether you'd enjoy it. Anyway, will be interested to hear what you think once you've read it.
Kate.