I finished The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford. Have to say I struggled a bit with it. The book does a great job of pulling you in right away but I struggled with the non-linear narative. I don't know if it was because I was reading it in hospital and kept getting interuppted but I found it had to keep the chronology clear in my head and some of the lesser characters passed me by.
There's not a lot to like about any of the characters, or at least not for me and the whole unreliable narrator got on my nerves after a while. A cautionaty tale about the dangers of Victorian sexual repression and keeping up appearences. Interesting but not gripping....and there's no soldiering in it at all!
Onwards and upwards with Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.
I've just finished The Good Soldier too and your comments summarises my feelings exactly .. and I had no excuse .. not in hospital ! Hope you are feeling better !
Ploughing through "Mockingjay" cannot wait to finish it since I am impatiently waiting to start either "The Mistborn Trilogy" or Book 4 from a "A Song of Fire & Ice"
The Rozabal line is done, just started 1st to Die by James Patterson. I'm enjoying it so far, but I have it on kindle and it's so hard to read, random sentences are turning into paragraphs, I's are coming up as 1s, taking a lot of concentration but it's good none the less! Perks of being a student means I get to take advantage of soaking up the sun and reading ha ha
I've just finished The Good Soldier too and your comments summarises my feelings exactly .. and I had no excuse .. not in hospital ! Hope you are feeling better !
Glad to know it wasn't just me and I'm in fighting form thanks for asking.
Just read Holiday sos by Ben McFarlane, he is a doctor that travels out to repatriate those abroad that have had an illness or accident while on holiday.
It was a really good read, quite funny at times but also sad.
No messing about with stories or his medical training etc, straight to his first job and he kept the stories coming.
It was quite hard to put down it was so interesting,.
It was worth every penny.
Finished S J Watson's Before I Go to Sleep. Well written nonsense! Good for a light read over summer .. but very implausible and there's distinct lack of tension .. one of those over-hyped bestsellers to be filed or binned in the same category as The Da Vinci Code, those Mayer werewolf tales and these Shade of Grey books that ladies seem to be raviong about !:eek:
Finished S J Watson's Before I Go to Sleep. Well written nonsense! Good for a light read over summer .. but very implausible and there's distinct lack of tension .. one of those over-hyped bestsellers to be filed or binned in the same category as The Da Vinci Code, those Mayer werewolf tales and these Shade of Grey books that ladies seem to be raviong about !:eek:
"Before I Go To Sleep" was one of my favourite reads so far this year. I thought it had plenty of tension. I didn't realise until afterwards that it was a bestseller - it was recommended to me by someone who had enjoyed it. I definitely don't agree with your categorisation
I really like this series,although I cant help but think Ms. Cain is a little disturbed:)
Only seventy pages into it, and I can tell there'll be some deep-seated reasons for people being unlikable, even more than i know already. So looking forward, with a bit of dread, to the rest of it.
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Actually its Skeleton Crew - I got it mixed up with Dumas Key:yawn:
I've just finished The Good Soldier too and your comments summarises my feelings exactly .. and I had no excuse .. not in hospital ! Hope you are feeling better !
Anyway, books read were:
XO by Jeffrey Deaver
As if by Magic by Kerry Wilkinson
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (absolutely brilliant)
The Escape Artist by Diane Chamberlain
Also halfway through 77 Days in September by Ray Gorham
All really good reads, and also managed to break the 100 books read barrier on my Kindle so quite pleased about that too!
Glad to know it wasn't just me and I'm in fighting form thanks for asking.
lots of amazing quotes for us to memorise and understand their meanings.
It was a really good read, quite funny at times but also sad.
No messing about with stories or his medical training etc, straight to his first job and he kept the stories coming.
It was quite hard to put down it was so interesting,.
It was worth every penny.
"Before I Go To Sleep" was one of my favourite reads so far this year. I thought it had plenty of tension. I didn't realise until afterwards that it was a bestseller - it was recommended to me by someone who had enjoyed it. I definitely don't agree with your categorisation
I really like this series,although I cant help but think Ms. Cain is a little disturbed:)
Only seventy pages into it, and I can tell there'll be some deep-seated reasons for people being unlikable, even more than i know already. So looking forward, with a bit of dread, to the rest of it.