Writer's Block: Book worms unite!
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Woo...this was more difficult than I thought....
Three Best:
1. Messiah by Boris Starling : Possibly one of the darkest and grimmest books I have ever had the pleasure to read. It's gory, it's disturbing (people get killed, their tongues are sliced out and replaced with silver spoons.....ewwwwww), it's visceral in its descriptions, it's brilliant. It's a well plotted and paced book, flitting between a murder investigation in progress and a back story of the main protagonist. If I was forced to read one book for the rest of my life this would be it.
2. The Green Mile by Stephen King : I've read this book so many times after I bought it on holiday and read the entire thing by the pool in two days. It has some great, intricate plotting with well-drawn, rounded characters. You even find yourself sympathising with the mouse! Then there is the ending.... Oh the ending. When Stephen King writes good, he writes very, very good.
3. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby : This man knows what he is doing. Deep down this is a romantic novel but it's been cleverly wrapped up in layers of music talk and lists so it's all the more easier to deal with for folks like me who run a mile when they see 'love' written on the blurb. It also helps that his prose is brilliantly witty and self-deprecating and actually talks to the reader instead of just guiding them through the plot.
Three Worst:
1. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella : Ugh I hate this type of book, all shoes, shopping and crappy soppy love stuff. I hate shoes, I hate shopping and I hate reading soppy chick-lit love goo. I tried this book after a friend recommended it to me after a discussion of how crappy chick-lit is. She said that this book was a good example of chick-lit. I read it and cursed her to the high heavens for wasting my time with such dross. Lazy, contrived and just plain boring.
2. American Tabloid by James Ellroy : I adore L.A Confidential so I was so disappointed when I read this one. I think it was the style he used, very bitty, short and sharp. Too sharp for me. I couldn't get past the 20th page on my first go. It literally took me months of stopping and starting just to get it finished.
3. Dreamcatcher by Stephen King : How can someone who wrote The Green Mile write this arse? Bum aliens!?!!? BUM aliens!?!?!?! WTF! Some good little touches and flourishes in the narrative but I couldn't get past the ludicrous nature of the BUM ALIENS?!?!?
Woo...this was more difficult than I thought....
Three Best:
1. Messiah by Boris Starling : Possibly one of the darkest and grimmest books I have ever had the pleasure to read. It's gory, it's disturbing (people get killed, their tongues are sliced out and replaced with silver spoons.....ewwwwww), it's visceral in its descriptions, it's brilliant. It's a well plotted and paced book, flitting between a murder investigation in progress and a back story of the main protagonist. If I was forced to read one book for the rest of my life this would be it.
2. The Green Mile by Stephen King : I've read this book so many times after I bought it on holiday and read the entire thing by the pool in two days. It has some great, intricate plotting with well-drawn, rounded characters. You even find yourself sympathising with the mouse! Then there is the ending.... Oh the ending. When Stephen King writes good, he writes very, very good.
3. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby : This man knows what he is doing. Deep down this is a romantic novel but it's been cleverly wrapped up in layers of music talk and lists so it's all the more easier to deal with for folks like me who run a mile when they see 'love' written on the blurb. It also helps that his prose is brilliantly witty and self-deprecating and actually talks to the reader instead of just guiding them through the plot.
Three Worst:
1. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella : Ugh I hate this type of book, all shoes, shopping and crappy soppy love stuff. I hate shoes, I hate shopping and I hate reading soppy chick-lit love goo. I tried this book after a friend recommended it to me after a discussion of how crappy chick-lit is. She said that this book was a good example of chick-lit. I read it and cursed her to the high heavens for wasting my time with such dross. Lazy, contrived and just plain boring.
2. American Tabloid by James Ellroy : I adore L.A Confidential so I was so disappointed when I read this one. I think it was the style he used, very bitty, short and sharp. Too sharp for me. I couldn't get past the 20th page on my first go. It literally took me months of stopping and starting just to get it finished.
3. Dreamcatcher by Stephen King : How can someone who wrote The Green Mile write this arse? Bum aliens!?!!? BUM aliens!?!?!?! WTF! Some good little touches and flourishes in the narrative but I couldn't get past the ludicrous nature of the BUM ALIENS?!?!?
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Date: 29/11/2009 06:14 pm (UTC)Down with chick-lit!!!!