Buffy ,'Showtime'
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."
Thanks for the info on Westlake's pseudonyms. I've passed them on to a friend of mine who likes his books, but probably hasn't researched him.
The Historian didn't grab me, I'm afraid. I made it about 150 pages in, looked at how far I had to go, and decided that there were other books I'd rather be reading. Pity, because I liked some of it. Just not enough.
I made it about 150 pages in, looked at how far I had to go, and decided that there were other books I'd rather be reading.
See, my other book when I hit that point was I Jonathan Strange which I'd just given up on to start reading The Historian. So I tried Strange again, and then went back to Historian as the lesser of the two boredoms.
Oh, yeah, I really liked Nackles. Quite a few of his short stories are sort of Dahl-esque.
But I regret doing it, intensely now, because I'm always answering questions about it, and also because it passes on ammunition to the literary snobs who just assume that I make the distinction because I'm writing down when I'm writing science fiction.
Aha! Actually, I assumed that he was the literary snob, but I've certainly been accused of snobbery, too.
I loved the Historian. I couldn't put it down until it was finished. I agree the end was a bit of a let down after all the build up, but I still loved it.
It was often like reading a history dissertation, or the summary of someone's research.
This was actually one of the aspects I loved about it.
...just can't resist pushing this thing ever closer to the end...
To help there, I'll mention that I'm finally reading The Eyre Affair, which I've had for about 4 or 5 years on my To Be Read bookshelf. I'm a few chapters in, and am enjoying it tremendously so far.
I'm finally reading The Eyre Affair
I loved the first one, found the second one annoying and I have the third which I keep eyeing suspiciously as it sits in the corner of the room. I have heard it is better than the second....
Quick!
Who can recite the first sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude without looking it up?
"I was alone."