I find all of Donna Tartt’s writing like this. The Goldfinch was a Herculean effort to get through, and I still had to switch to audio and listen in short chunks! I think I renewed it 3 times.

It was one of the worst books I ever finished (along with Tell All by Chuck Palahniuk). I can only imagine that the audio is what saved it.

I wasn't crazy about the first one. So, no, I didn't read the second one. But since you liked the first one, I thought you might like the second one.

I’m obsessed with Roald Dahl.

Hollywood Accounting is such bullshit.

Did you read the second one? I saw it was rated much lower so hadn’t planned on checking it out.

When I have read at least the main part of it - not necessarily including prefatory matter, introduction, foreword, acknowledgements, notes, appendices, index, addenda, errata, corrigenda, & suchlike.

You know that he wrote a sequel?

And you never have to worry about it being made into a movie. Winston Groom never wants to be associated with a financial failure again. FG wasn't a financial failure, but the studio claimed it never made money in order to cheat Groom. It's called Hollywood bookkeeping and they've used it to cheat many people. (Poor David Prowse [Darth Vadar] would regularly get letters telling him how The Return of the Jedi still hadn't made any money.) In this case, they screwed themselves out of the sequel because Groom won't license the book because of how they cheated him with the first movie.

That's fair but I do frequently do the latter with authors like Weir and Sanderson, but I'm admittedly a little mean spirited. Don't even get me started on imagine dragons in a music discussion

Criticism is important, but I think that there's a big difference between critique and insult.

It's definitely a thing on here for people to pretend they're doing the former when they're really doing the later. "How can anyone like this pile of garbage book? I'm just asking for an explanation. What am I missing about this shitty book that makes people think this terrible author is any good?" isn't criticism.

Phrase this as you will, but I'll say this...

Jane Eyre is primarily thought of as a romance, but I disagree with that idea. I think it's primary theme is about religion. Christianity permeates the book. Jane starts out almost as a pagan character who through the exposure to Helen Burns and Miss Temple (and with Brocklehurst as a counter-example) Jane develops a deep sense of Christian right and wrong which she carries with her through the rest of the story.

Edward's redemption comes through pain & suffering and his acceptance of the sinner he is. With his acceptance of God, he gets a Godly marriage with Jane, a son and partial restoration of his eyesight.

The story is bookended with two Christian martyrs: Helen and St. John. Just look at what the book closes with.

Yet, when you look at the adaptations, even the closest of them (the one with Zelah Clarke and Timothy Dalton) strips out most of the religious theme.

I'm all for criticizing a book you don't enjoy, but it's weird to criticize a book when you didn't understand it. It always says more about the reader than the book

I'm all for criticizing a book you don't enjoy, but it's weird to criticize a book when you didn't understand it. It always says more about the reader than the book

I haven't read it yet but I'm excited to, I've read nothing but good things about it as a piece of experimental, stream of consciousness writing.

The people that enjoyed the book are probably more intelligent than you or at least more familiar with that kind of writing. I'm excited to start it soon

I think that’s kind of what I enjoyed about it. The movie was ridiculous as well, just more grounded. I kind of liked how insane it got toward the end.

Maybe I liked the book more because I didn’t like the movie as much as others. I thought the book was hilarious

That it's an instance of the movie being better than the book. For all its comedic moments, the movie had a lot of heart. While the book was comedy and the moments got unbelievably ridiculous when it hit the space scene.

r/ebookdeals

With the amount I read, a monthly TBR is just too unwieldy. I really like making a weekly reading list every Saturday though. It's just hard for me to think more than like 5-10 books ahead.

You didn't just not like the book though. You demanded people explain its merit to you while simultaneously concluding that it's a pile of garbage. Your post is not a critique, it's insulting the book, the author, and anyone who did like it.

If you enjoyed it, please give Revival a chance! It’s my favorite King book, and I’ve read most of his work, including under pseudonyms.

Exactly! Gatsby is living the dream but the dream is "do whatever you can to make lota of money so you can get the girl". That's what makes this so American to me: anyone can get whatever they want, especially if all you want dr is superficial, stupid and in the end not what makes you happy.

Several libraries here have a perpetual book sale in one corner of the library. One library has no books over $1.50, the other library has books up to $5 for hardbacks. Not a lot of what you're looking for, but you never know what will come up.

The following link is for book sales in different states:

https://www.booksalefinder.com/

Read it in 1981. It was unique, disturbing, erotic, violent, and I literally recalled one of its scenes last week.

In my top 5 of favorite King books

Simps in every country really. But a rich simp, that sort of a uniquely modern fantasy character. Sure you can find examples but as an archetype very much American as designed

I think it's meh.