Comments on: More critique with an extra helping of snark: Bookclub Part 2

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By: Robin S.

Robin S. — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:19:00 +0000

I loved this post and the intro post just before this one.

I'd love to read your book club picks, and your thoughts on the novels you really enjoyed, as you move through the year.

Thanks!

By: Michele Lee

Michele Lee — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:12:00 +0000

>>“Hated it. Hated everything about it. The characters are rich, privileged, and pretentious. Their shallow musings and fervent banter never lead to much, other than a supposedly tragic ending. This fell way short of my expectations.”

I completely agree. I think I stunned my English teacher when I said, in our discussion "This is classic literature? It's a bunch of rich kids whining." It was an incredible let down.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:51:00 +0000

TOTALLY agree with this:

With The Hours, Miriam found an award winner that she did admire. “Mr. Cunningham is a lovely writer who finds his way into his characters’ souls and makes the drama he finds within universal and poignantly human. Virginia Woolf would have applauded.”

I loved avery inch of this book! And the filmw as just as good.

Carrie Kabak

By: Imelda

Imelda — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:46:00 +0000

I can't tell you how much I would love to be a fly on the wall at a book club composed of book pros. I can imagine that the snark has an extra edge from people who's living is having opinions on the written word.

So often, people feel restricted in what they can say about books. If something is hailed as 'so intelligent' or 'brilliant' (or the like) people sometimes feel constrained to say that they like it, sometimes to be polite, but I suspect more often in an 'emperor's new clothes' kind of way.

Or, alternatively, they say they hated it, or they wouldn't read it in a fit, just to be ornery, without having any genuine feeling about it.

Long live those who have opinions and who are willing and able to express and defend them. The world could do with less rhetoric and more exchange of real opinions.

IMHO! LOL!

And on that note, as we say in OZ - havagoodweekend.
Imelda

By: gary daily

gary daily — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:31:00 +0000

“It was pitched as the modern Great Gatsby.”
In Terre Haute, Indiana (And don’t get all giggly over _that_. The Haute is the “Crossroads of America” and we have an official looking plaque in the center of our, ahem, downtown,to prove it.)We would appreciate hearing from you or one of your club members on just what a modern Great Gatsby pitch might be.
The entire county of Vigo is reading Gatsby, sending everyone into gin binge fits as we lash out at each others interpretations of Jay, Daisy, Nick and the Owl man in the library. Half the town has put up a green light on their porch and the other half has taken to saying “Old sport” at the end of every sentence uttered.
So send Gatsby comments of any sort along to:
Read Gatsby – Discuss Gatsby
http://readgatsby.blogspot.com/

By: Rhona

Rhona — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:03:00 +0000

I LOVE this post!!!!!!!!!!!