I really enjoyed doing up to about week 8, then I started a writing class so this book was no longer serving me. Then I just...never went back to it. I really enjoyed doing up to about week 8, then I started a writing class so this book was no longer serving me. Then I just...never went back to it. Maybe I'll try again someday, I did feel pretty creative during those 8 weeks....more
Still want to read, really enjoyed the first 50 pages, just have a lot going on right now and I can't focus on it.Still want to read, really enjoyed the first 50 pages, just have a lot going on right now and I can't focus on it....more
I need to stop reading books that compare themselves to A Man Called Ove.
I might have been able to keep reading if any other character held DNF at 33%
I need to stop reading books that compare themselves to A Man Called Ove.
I might have been able to keep reading if any other character held any charm, but they were all terrible. This man is dead and instead of like, helping? They say things like, "You're allowed to ask all the questions you want, I'm just giving you shit lol"
I've read a few of her middle reader books and thought they were only so so but thought I'd give her another chance since those were not DNF @ page 54
I've read a few of her middle reader books and thought they were only so so but thought I'd give her another chance since those were not really meant for a women in her late 30s.
This has as much subtlety as those middle reader books, which is to say, absolutely none, and you will be bashed over the head with it. Did you KNOW women are OPPRESSED???!...more
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(view spoiler)["This Dante-like belief in a pure and perfect Beatrice didn't prevent me from shooWords under a spoiler because of pornographic imagery
(view spoiler)["This Dante-like belief in a pure and perfect Beatrice didn't prevent me from shooting semen high and low once puberty came a'knocking. Night often found me in some musty corner of the library, clutching a ragged copy of "Lust Rumble" in one hand and yanking on my swollen penis in the other. With the dawn came shame, repentance, and a vow of chastity, as sincere as it was short-lived" (hide spoiler)]
I actually kept on for about another 100 pages, even though my gut was saying "You won't like this." My gut was right. It was a fake memoir of fake people in a fake world - a recipe I normally find distasteful in the best of times, and this was so overwhelmingly masculine in all the wrong ways (see above quote)....more
Reading this as we went into the pandemic was a bad idea. I haven't been able to look at it since.Reading this as we went into the pandemic was a bad idea. I haven't been able to look at it since....more
Alright, I haven't read a chapter in over 2 years, think it's time to mark this one as abandoned. Hated the Emperor character immensely.Alright, I haven't read a chapter in over 2 years, think it's time to mark this one as abandoned. Hated the Emperor character immensely....more
Man, I really don't want to do this, but I'm going to abandon it. I've been listening to the audiobook and the narrator is not good. This is a problemMan, I really don't want to do this, but I'm going to abandon it. I've been listening to the audiobook and the narrator is not good. This is a problem when I have an absolutely horrid time keeping the characters straight - a product of my Western upbringing. The names all sound the same to me, unfortunately, and with no voices to help, or the ability to flip back pages to refresh my memory on what this character had done, I'm listening to context-free story at any given time. I'm about halfway through the story, but it's taken me 6 months to get this far and it has become a chore to turn it on.
It is especially baffling because all of the top reviews on Audible absolutely praise the narrator. I couldn't stand him.
I should pick up the paper book someday, I am interested in the historical figure of Musashi....more
Couldn't handle the audiobook narrator. She narrated a book I listened to last year that I did not like and the book I didn't like is all I can hear nCouldn't handle the audiobook narrator. She narrated a book I listened to last year that I did not like and the book I didn't like is all I can hear now....more
Every single sentence is something like "You are reading this, maybe. You may or may not be reading this in a chair you may or may not be sittiBoring.
Every single sentence is something like "You are reading this, maybe. You may or may not be reading this in a chair you may or may not be sitting in. Is there a house around you? There could be. If there IS a house around you, it probably doesn't look like a house. In fact it probably shouldn't be called a house, it's so far away from the general objects we call 'houses.' Nevertheless, you may be sitting in the chair, or not, in the location that isn't a house, but it could be."
Simply didn't work for me as an audio book. Might try a paper version some time.Simply didn't work for me as an audio book. Might try a paper version some time....more
Nope. That sucked. Told from the simultaneous view point of all three girls who all love to explain exactly what they're going through one right afterNope. That sucked. Told from the simultaneous view point of all three girls who all love to explain exactly what they're going through one right after the other.
Swingin' and missin' a lot this year. I have never abandoned so many books and it's not even Feb 1 yet! I made it to page 140 of this. It was cute andSwingin' and missin' a lot this year. I have never abandoned so many books and it's not even Feb 1 yet! I made it to page 140 of this. It was cute and I enjoyed the clever writing but I also got bored almost immediately. Setting the memoir in a fake world was too much for me. It would be like reading a 700-page memoir of a character from Discworld - absolutely enjoyable by some, but not for me.
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