The Warden is a sweet little book, but if it starts to bore you then feel free to skip ahead to Barchester Towers, which is quite a bit livelier (and the first Trollope I read -- everything builds tightly from there on out and thenceforth you've really got to read it all in sequence, but it is possible to start the series with the second book if the first one really doesn't grab you).
Welcome to the Hellmouth petting zoo.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
JZ - Jan 05, 2012 1:37:58 pm PST #17337 of 28277
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
megan walker - Jan 05, 2012 2:51:25 pm PST #17338 of 28277
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
feel free to skip ahead
It seems like English and yet...
Naturally, the only Trollope I've read is The Warden.
JZ - Jan 05, 2012 2:55:11 pm PST #17339 of 28277
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Heh. I actually *love* The Warden; I just want everyone to love Trollope as much as I do, and I don't want Connie to give up on him if it turns out The Warden is not quite her speed.
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2012 2:56:46 pm PST #17340 of 28277
brillig
I'm more than up to the foibles of the Victorian middle class. I've read many a Regency romance and am well-versed in the "We must get darling Clara married before it's too late, and whatever shall we do dear, dreadful Rupert?"
megan walker - Jan 05, 2012 3:01:44 pm PST #17341 of 28277
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I remember liking The Warden well enough, but just not in an OMG-that-was-so-great-I-must-read-more way.
See also Under the Greenwood Tree.
Sometimes my completist tendencies do me wrong.
DavidS - Jan 05, 2012 6:26:44 pm PST #17342 of 28277
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
meara - Jan 05, 2012 6:37:44 pm PST #17343 of 28277
I generally looove my kindle (goodbye days of not having enough room in the bag for the number of books I need!), but admit the inability to flip around and find the sections you want is irritating. I mean, you can "bookmark" stuff, but it's just not nearly as easy. I don't usually have a problem with that, but when I was using a guidebook on the kindle it was a big PITA.
sj - Jan 05, 2012 6:40:51 pm PST #17344 of 28277
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I love my kindle, but I get annoyed at the lack of pages numbers. I want to know how many pages I have read.
megan walker - Jan 05, 2012 6:44:54 pm PST #17345 of 28277
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yeah, I never realized how much I rely on peeking ahead to see where the chapter ends until I used the Kindle. That's just one of many reasons why I don't want one, but it was a bigger one than I would have thought.
§ ita § - Jan 05, 2012 6:47:46 pm PST #17346 of 28277
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kindles don't have page numbers? Nooks do, but they're weird. I'm not sure what they align with. The printed book, maybe? Because when you change the font size, your page number doesn't change.
I did use the dictionary for the first time this Christmas (orrery? WTF?), and that was really nifty, especially since I didn't have an internet connection. I also used it on the same day to look something up for my sister that wasn't in the book. Which reminded me, I should load up a dictionary or two on my mobile devices. Silly oversight.