Just can't do it. I just finished a piss poor attempt at humour book a couple weeks ago. I have no desire to attempt another...Since when does humour Just can't do it. I just finished a piss poor attempt at humour book a couple weeks ago. I have no desire to attempt another...Since when does humour equate to cheap college frat boy humour?
I guess I'm no more of a Porky's Revenge type person now than I was when I was a teenager. Only difference now is that not only am I not interested, I'm bored and annoyed with it as well...
So many wonderful books out there, and even mediocre ones that there's really no need to subject myself to something like this. Obviously there are many fans of this sort of thing out there...but not for me.
For those that love this type of thing, might I recommend "Bill the Vampire". I think that might be right up your alleyway as well.
#whenbookstrytobeFIGHTCLUBandfail
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Okay....so now I need to figure out how to review a book that I didn't even read....
So yes, this isn't really a review, but it does contain some of myOkay....so now I need to figure out how to review a book that I didn't even read....
So yes, this isn't really a review, but it does contain some of my thoughts about this book....
I was very excited to start this book....I've recently moved from the only country I've ever known to another country to be with my (now) husband. So I thought in many ways that this book would speak to me. That there would be parts that I could relate to. Also it's has such a beautiful cover. I try not to judge a book based upon it's cover, but I admit to being a sucker for one that is as beautiful as this one. Plus, when I glanced over the description (I try not to read full descriptions) it looked like exactly the type of book I enjoy....
So I started it....I will say I finally gave up at 25%...I did scan a few later chapters and I did read the last chapter....with the ending, it's really a shame that I couldn't get into this novel...because endings like this book don't put me off....they don't make me angry....they enrich my enjoyment of a novel because they are more real to life than some neatly wrapped up pretty package of an ending....
But back to why I just couldn't read more of this novel...I just couldn't relate to Anna at all. It's not that I didn't like her....or couldn't understand her....she was just....errrr...lifeless....perhaps that was intentional, I don't know...I've met people that were lifeless I suppose....I guess it would even make sense if it was intentional...as if Anna was only existing, and not actually living....hell, I said I looked forward to this book because I could relate....it wasn't just moving to another country I spoke of....I've merely existed as well....but....I don't know....Anna just felt flat to me....
I will say that from what I read this wasn't a marriage/family thing...this is how Anna was long before she moved to another country....before she got married...and before she had children....and I understand to some extent what the author was trying to do here....Perhaps she is trying to paint the world that I was reading to mimic the world that Anna was actually in....
But on a personal level...I've been there.....and I have no desire to revisit that bleakness again....so maybe I am wrong in saying that I could not connect with Anna...perhaps I did...and wanted no part of it....
The way that the book was written was very confusing to me as well....I've read a few books that jumped from current time, to future conversations, to past conversations without warning and not had issues with it. It suited the book....I didn't feel it suited this novel though..the more the jumps happened...well the more and more I felt that it was just another factor that was determined to prevent me from relating to Anna and her story....It was just another barrier that I couldn't overcome....let's be clear....It's not that I didn't like Anna....or that I hated Anna....heck, I confess to loving some books that I absolutely hated ALL the characters. I will even admit that some books have annoyed me to no end by the behaviours of the main character....but the writing and all the *stuff* going on in the novel....well....there was nothing to do but to read on and marvel at the writing...the feelings this novel inspired (which were few) did not inspire me to read on...I wanted to give up much earlier than I did, but I hate to give up on a book!
Again....this novel...it just fell flat for me :-( I hate that it did. I really wanted to fall in love....but sometimes we just have to make due with the fact that not every book speaks to us...and we can't love every one we read.....
Review copy provided by Netgalley for an honest review
and please....don't bother committing on this review and telling me I shouldn't rate it if I didn't finish it...I can take a bite from a sandwich and know it's not for me...I shouldn't be forced to eat the whole thing before I'm allowed my opinion....I know after 25% that this writing style would never be for me....and I'm entitled to my opinion and yes, I'm allowed to rate it based on my feelings...don't like it? Well.....get over it....oh....and have a nice day....x...more
I can not bear to finish this book. I am physically ill from reading this. I don't mind gore. Actually, I kinda like it. Brian Lumley is fast favouritI can not bear to finish this book. I am physically ill from reading this. I don't mind gore. Actually, I kinda like it. Brian Lumley is fast favourite of mine.
I thought this was going to be a really wonderful book. I really did. When I started it, it was wonderful. I love the concept of it. A small group of boys on a isolated island with only a scoutmaster there to guide them. All electronics left behind and no outside communication allowed for the duration. Then one night a mysterious stranger joins them on the island. I loved the back stories of the boys. The mesh of their personalities. They all made for a very interesting storyline. I loved the scoutmaster as well...a small town general practitioner.
However, I have to write this review to warn others. There is some really disturbing stuff within these pages. Again, I don't mind the gore. I don't even mind if characters I like are picked off one by one....well, I mind...but you know what I mean.....
However, senseless animal cruelty that leaves me shaking and very nauseous is enough to make me not want to finish this book. No, it makes me unable to finish this book. Yes, I admit, I want to know how it ends...but I am not willing to pay the price for this knowledge. I understand that perhaps Cutter (which is really Canadian writer Craig Davison) is trying to use this to build up character's personality....but I just feel there are better and more worthy ways of doing so than a play by play scene that leaves NOTHING to the imagination.
I don't mean to bash this author or his writing....as I stated, there is a lot I like in this novel....however, I can't let something that sits so uneasily on me go undisclosed. I know a lot of people are excited to start reading this...and I don't wish to deter them, only warn them....
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This is my first attempt at a Karen Kingsbury novel. I have to admit, that I've been so confident that I would absolutely love her that I have purchasThis is my first attempt at a Karen Kingsbury novel. I have to admit, that I've been so confident that I would absolutely love her that I have purchased over a half dozen of her novels in the past when I've seen them on sale. I was thrilled to be picked to receive an ARC of this one to review.
I have read some Christian fiction in the past. I admit, it's not my usual genre, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying a great book. I have given a few my highest ratings in reviews, which I admit I am somewhat stingy with. However, there is no way I am going to force myself to finish reading this novel.
First, let me start off by saying that I enjoy the stuff in the beginning of books. The bits with parts of reviews telling why they like such and such book or the author...however, I was very much turned off that the publishers think I need to be brainwashed to see pages and pages raving about Mrs. Kingsbury. It was total overkill. The other thing, dedications are a favorite thing for me! I always read them! I love them. However, I in no way, shape or form wished to read page after page of personal letters to her spouse or her children and son-in-law. I just thought the bits in the front and then the dedications were way overdone and not called for in a book. My kindle said it took 5% of a a novel that is almost 400 pages long! Perhaps in a personal website this would appropriate. I don't know....I just felt like the author was trying to validate herself to the extreme.....but I thought, okay...her ego has been fed, I shall move on....I will enjoy this book.....
It just isn't going to happen. I honestly tried to move beyond my feelings of discomfort, but at 25% I was still not happy and I finally decided that I needed to move on. Yes, I want to give an honest review. Yes, I thought I would love this book. Yes, I felt grateful to NETGALLEY and the author for providing me an ARC....but I can't change how I feel and I am unwilling to lie about my feelings towards this book.
What bothers me so much? "It's God's will". Okay....I can believe that. But I can't really sit by and read time and time again when one of the characters says this. Especially when I felt that they were saying it to get their way. If someone questioned what they were doing, or what it meant to them, or asked them why, more than one said, to the effect, "well, it might not be what I wanted or what we talked about, but now the chance is here and it must be God's will that it is put before me, so I will do it". It screamed to me that "this is what I want and I will do it because I can say that it is God's will...if it hurts your or you don't agree, so sorry, but it's God's will and you need to deal with it". God might point us where He wishes us to go, but it is ultimately OUR choice. Many have turned away and done the wrong thing....and they have not said, "sorry, but it was God's will that I be selfish and do as I pleased". Sometimes we do things because we are selfish. God has made us so. God lives inside us, but so does sin.
I tried to move past this...and get on with the story...but then I was faced with the characters making bad choices...wrong choices...and once again, they used "God's will" to validate this. Okay, so they went off track, but God put that track there and used it as a test and steered them back to the right course. I call bullshit....I am sorry....I just couldn't finish the book. I found it condescending and felt talked down upon.
Please don't bombard my review and tell me that I needed to finish the book to see how it all comes together. How Kingsbury wanted me to feel that way and she brings it all home in the end....I don't need it...nor do I appreciate it....If you love Kingsbury, I am happy for you and will think no less of you....please think no less of me because she will never be a favorite of mine......more
Making this as read just so I can do a stupid review....I made it all the way to 37% I deserve a medal.....
okay....I just can't finish it....it starteMaking this as read just so I can do a stupid review....I made it all the way to 37% I deserve a medal.....
okay....I just can't finish it....it started with this paragraph at about 12%
"She knew it was probably just the adrenaline, but she found herself strangely attracted to the American professor. In addition to his being handsome, he seemed to possess a sincerely good heart. In some distant, alternate life, Robert Langdon might even be someone she could be with."
From then on all I could think of was what a complete sell out Dan Brown was. I mean, this isn't even an original love twist...it's so overused....so overdone. I made it all the way to 37% before I just am done...I'm over it...kaput...no more....
So far Langdon has escaped several assassination attempts. He has managed to escape several times from places that were inescapable. So we're suppose to believe he is insanely clever, right? WRONG!!!!! When he meets up with a lady he met the night before (he has short term amnesia ...ufffta.... how very original) he has to ask her half a dozen times, "You did, I must have overlooked that" when she points out that they discussed it the night before. Hello! If you're trying to act like you don't have amnesia, don't question every thing she tells you from the night before, moron!
I just can't take it anymore....
I honestly feel that Brown has just totally sold himself out here....He has not only recycled generic writing themes, he has used boring, unimaginative ones to boot! At this point, I can't help having visions of Harrison Ford (Indian Jones) and Matt Damon (Jason Bourne) running through my head. Where the hell is Robert Langdon? I just can't picture him. There is no clear picture of him or his personality. How dare Dan Brown assume that everyone has read the previous books. As an author I would think that you can never assume that your reading audience has read your other books. This might be the very first time they have picked up one of your novels. Yet, Brown gives us no insight to who Langdon is. What makes him tick? There simply is no inner workings to his mind or his personality here. So very disappointed....I seriously wanted to finish this book, but I've been debating with myself the entire time from that stupid paragraph until now....I mean, seriously, I'm in the middle of a paragraph and ask myself, "Connie, how much longer are you going to go on with this rubbish?"....guess I finally answered myself....zipt...psssfffttt...done.... adios........more
I just couldn't finish this one. Not only did I not understand the slang form Ireland, what I did understand was vulgar language and very nasty peopleI just couldn't finish this one. Not only did I not understand the slang form Ireland, what I did understand was vulgar language and very nasty people, including the children. really couldn't finish over 13%. I really wanted to give it a try......more
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