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bagheera_sanBooks I've finished in 2008:
1. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
2. Gregorius, der guote sündaere (Hartman von Aue)
3. The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
4. A History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters (Julian Barnes)
Smart. Funny. Entertaining. Good literature. Dearest English department: I continue to be delighted by your choices of university reading stuff.
5. The Golem's Eye (Jonathan Stroud)
The Golem's Eye is the second part of the Bartimaeus Trilogy. I read the first one last year and was torn between being entertained and deeply annoyed. The Amulet of Samarkand *is* a very annoying book. It literally has not a single sympathetic, nice character. And while I love bad guys, they don't work without good guys. But in his second book, Stroud gives us spunky girl-heroine Kitty Jones along with his nasty protagonists Bartimaeus (a pseudo-mean djinni) and Nathaniel (Draco Malfoy), so that's better. The Golem's Eye is still a glaringly obvious book though: the snark is the least subtle I have ever read, and I literally knew who was going to be the villain the moment he first appeared. (Something Nathaniel still hasn't managed by the end of the book.) And yet, this book is damn entertaining. I recommend it if you want some light fantasy reading. Points to the author for making the "resistance" very much like the subversive groups I've known: irrelevant, self-important and not very likeable.
1. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
2. Gregorius, der guote sündaere (Hartman von Aue)
3. The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
4. A History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters (Julian Barnes)
Smart. Funny. Entertaining. Good literature. Dearest English department: I continue to be delighted by your choices of university reading stuff.
5. The Golem's Eye (Jonathan Stroud)
The Golem's Eye is the second part of the Bartimaeus Trilogy. I read the first one last year and was torn between being entertained and deeply annoyed. The Amulet of Samarkand *is* a very annoying book. It literally has not a single sympathetic, nice character. And while I love bad guys, they don't work without good guys. But in his second book, Stroud gives us spunky girl-heroine Kitty Jones along with his nasty protagonists Bartimaeus (a pseudo-mean djinni) and Nathaniel (Draco Malfoy), so that's better. The Golem's Eye is still a glaringly obvious book though: the snark is the least subtle I have ever read, and I literally knew who was going to be the villain the moment he first appeared. (Something Nathaniel still hasn't managed by the end of the book.) And yet, this book is damn entertaining. I recommend it if you want some light fantasy reading. Points to the author for making the "resistance" very much like the subversive groups I've known: irrelevant, self-important and not very likeable.
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Date: 2008-03-09 12:12 am (UTC)How much would you recommend The Time Traveller's Wife? (I feel like we've talking about this before...)
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