I'm just never going to finish this one. I really wanted to like it, but it got to the point that I wasn't enjoying it anymore. I didn't mind so much I'm just never going to finish this one. I really wanted to like it, but it got to the point that I wasn't enjoying it anymore. I didn't mind so much that everything was strange, but it was perhaps too intensely and constantly insane. Plus, there were times when I didn't know what was even happening with action scenes that went on far too long. I'm not sure this book even had a point, so I'm not feeling as if I'm missing out on something. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood or maybe this author just isn't for me....more
This book isn't horrible or anything, but I'm just not interested in continuing with it. It was adjacent to my last read, so I snatched it up, but I'mThis book isn't horrible or anything, but I'm just not interested in continuing with it. It was adjacent to my last read, so I snatched it up, but I'm just not feeling it. About a third of the way in, it's about 3 stars, so on to better things....more
I couldn't finish this book when it suddenly became clear that it was a wish-fulfillment book for eating disorders and sexual fantasies. It seems to tI couldn't finish this book when it suddenly became clear that it was a wish-fulfillment book for eating disorders and sexual fantasies. It seems to take place on another planet, but the names and foods are all Earth foods. However, the culture and religion has changed. One religion is obsessed with not eating or only eating the bare minimum of unpleasurable foods, shakes, and bars necessary for survival. So, teens rebel by sneaking real food and people apologize for needing to eat to maintain their blood sugar levels. The culture is also extremely open with sex, encouraging their teen children to have group slumber parties at the church and having no problem with people just dropping where they are in public to go at it like animals in the dirt. After about 25% into the book, I started getting more and more uncomfortable with the plot and decided it wasn't worth going on. I snuck a look at some other low reviews, and I'm certainly not alone in the book starting to feel just icky....more
DNF. Two siblings listen to an 8-hour recording their mother made for them to hear after she died. In it, she tells tales of people they don't know frDNF. Two siblings listen to an 8-hour recording their mother made for them to hear after she died. In it, she tells tales of people they don't know from the islands (Jamaica maybe?) where she was born, and they keep wondering how it relates to them. I know lots of people loved this book, but reading it is tedious and uninteresting. Next....more
DNF. This seems like the type of book I would like. It's set in the one place on earth that is able to create everyone's favorite food at the end of tDNF. This seems like the type of book I would like. It's set in the one place on earth that is able to create everyone's favorite food at the end of the world, and the rich are paying ridiculous amounts to eat here. But it's just so boring. Nothing ever happens. I read about half and decided it wasn't worth it to go on. ...more
DNF. The author owns in the Michigan woods, where most of the foods are foraged and it will cost you $1500-$3500 per weekend to stay. HerDNF. The author owns in the Michigan woods, where most of the foods are foraged and it will cost you $1500-$3500 per weekend to stay. Her memoir about foraging and cooking seemed interesting enough, but it didn't seem to be going anywhere. I was also weirded out by the extremely detailed recountings of childhood happenings, especially those from before she was born. I probably read a third of it before my library checkout ended, and I don't feel any compulsion to check it out again. ...more
This book has interesting elements. However, ultimately, I just wasn't interested. It was more of looking at what the magical house could do and me geThis book has interesting elements. However, ultimately, I just wasn't interested. It was more of looking at what the magical house could do and me getting bored with the storyline. Since it's sat unfinished for months now, I think it's just time to abandon it. ...more
I finally gave up on this one going anywhere at 48%. When you can skim and miss nothing for pages on end, it's a lost cause. It feels like it's a bookI finally gave up on this one going anywhere at 48%. When you can skim and miss nothing for pages on end, it's a lost cause. It feels like it's a book that exists only to create it's own premise. Humans are gradually being pushed to the poles as every other area slowly becomes too hot and flooded. A military guy is considering staying behind in the lagoons rather than continue with his group studying and mapping the new terrain. Plus, they're all obsessed with insomnia and dreams. That's it. I can't take any more of this going-nowhere world....more
I'm just not enjoying this one, and life is too short. The conversations are weird, as are the talking (AI?) animals and talking doors. I feel like I'I'm just not enjoying this one, and life is too short. The conversations are weird, as are the talking (AI?) animals and talking doors. I feel like I've been plopped into the middle of private jokes I don't understand. I really don't care what happens to these people. It's just not the book for me....more
Darren was the valedictorian of his class, but 4 years later, he's still working at Starbucks because it's comfNope. 21% into the book, and I'm done.
Darren was the valedictorian of his class, but 4 years later, he's still working at Starbucks because it's comfortable. One day, he sells a customer on a drink he didn't order and finds himself as the only black guy in a crazy startup company.
Everyone insists on calling him Buck (because he used to work at Starbucks), brings their dogs to work, whoops and hollers, listens to inspirational speeches with tears in their closed eyes, and hangs on their bosses' every word. And their bosses are as abusive as all get out.
If I were really hired to work for this company, I would have probably left before the end of the Monday morning meeting. In book-reading time, I made it through to the training session at 21%.
Nope. Life is too short to endure an abusive work place in real life or in fiction. I'm done. I don't care what kind of lesson there might be to learn here. I'm outta here....more
Although this author is a great writer, I'm done. This is way too rapey and incesty. Although this author is a great writer, I'm done. This is way too rapey and incesty. ...more
When I worked for an ESL school, one of my teacher friends taught this book to students learning English. Poor students. Yes, the bulk of the informatWhen I worked for an ESL school, one of my teacher friends taught this book to students learning English. Poor students. Yes, the bulk of the information is interesting, but the author does something that I hate in non-fiction writing. He's gone out and interviewed everyone connected to the ebola outbreak and gotten their blow-by-blow on everything that happened surrounding their connection to the virus. This reads like the most boring diary. I don't need to know what color truck they drove, what they were wearing, what they had for supper that night. It's just so tedious that I bogged down about halfway through. It's also written with such cringy, pedestrian phrasing sometimes.
Ebola is terrifying. The descriptions of the first people who had it throwing up blood on a plane and bleeding out in the emergency room are just horrific. The way that it disintegrates your organs is the stuff of horror novels. It has a 90% mortality rate which means that it's deadly enough to burn itself out. Thank goodness the pandemic so many people don't believe in now isn't one with a 90% mortality rate. Ebola well and truly scares me. Any doctor willing to tend to patients with it deserve the utmost respect.
Anyhow, I'm abandoning this novel because I just don't have any desire to keep slogging through it. ...more
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