Dottie 's comments
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Dottie 's comments from the Books on the Nightstand group.
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Here are my own comments after I finally read the book:
I have to say that after avoiding this book for years -- decades -- due to film images based (very loosely as it turns out) upon the book, I am quite amazed at how much I enjoyed the book, the language and for the most part the writing. Horror without all the expected accompanying excesses. Horror with a proper sense of dread. Of course, there were the moments when the group of characters collectively ignore their own evidence -- which gave rise to this reader's ire. Wonder what readers in that day thought or if this is a modern response brought about by years of inundation with mediocre horror books and films?
Here are links to some Dracula discussions where I've made similar or further comments:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6444...
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6677...
Oei,oei,oei! Do I see Dutch?
As you were.
Portland MUST mean you bought books, too,I'm assuming so anyway. Do tell.
Oh but then there are those cases of buying a book based solely upon acquiring that specific cover. A member of a group I'm in said good things about a book but began by simply sharing the cover -- the cover alone sold me and I hunted it out.
Here it is:
It isn't a lone case either, as I have several favorite books for which I've ferreted out edtions with specific covers.
Just finished A Southern Family by Gail Godwin who is one of my favorite authors. Am now primarily reading an omnibus volume of Daphne du Maurier novels and stories -- she is another of my favorites.
Jess -- I've had this happen with books -- some wait and wait and wait (those I own and I let them hang around figuring one day, maybe). Others, I've read a couple of other books in different genres or different topics -- then finished the one in which I was stuck quite readily.
Most of the time, I finish books, but then I'm pretty pciky about what I pick up to read and when I choose certain types of books and if I do get stuck -- I just give it time.
Fascinating and very closely related to one of my own personal "soapbox" topics. Must get hold of this ASAP. Thanks, Carla.
This reminded me of a multiple book reading experience in which I participated with Constant Reader people years ago, long before we landed here on Goodreads. The Reading List (which I don't believe was even labeled that at the time) read J.B.:A Play in Verse by MacLeish while Classics Corner read The Book of Job in the Bible -- and then several of us also read Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People and Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels -- and there may have been another one. That was quite a merry, rousing book-go-round -- one I'll always remember, certainly.
Oh boy -- I'm going to add White Mischief to my list to read when I reread Out of Africa -- which I was already planning to pair with Markham's book when I reread. So now I get two new experiences with my second visit with Dinesen! Thanks, Dottie -- nice name, BTW ;)
Book pairings can be really good for discussions -- at least in online groups -- I've not experienced such in an in-person group. That would make an excellent episode, I think.
Suzanne -- if you have specific problems with the book, is there a way you can ask a question about why the author chose to have "x" do " a" rather than "b" for example -- move the disucussion and get some info which will help you perhaps understand or appreciate it more. Just thinking out loud and off the top of my head there.
Chris wrote: "I just finished Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time by Michael Downing. It was absolutely fascinating. It's hard to describe the lunacy that has surrounded Daylight Saving ..."
Chris -- this sounds interesting. There's a small fascination on my part with all the many aspects of man's "created" time -- from Daylight Savings clear back to the setting of calendars. I'll look into this one.
Simply encouraging others to become as addicted to Proust as I have become! New people ferret out new and interesting websites to explore and I'm always learning more as a result.
Gena check out The Proust Project group begun by BOTNS's own Suzanne as she tackles reading all of In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past.
After perusing the fifty titles, I counted up nearly one-half of them i've read -- many for school long ago, the remainder on my own or with the Classics corner folks of my long-time Constant Reader group online over the years. So if I attempted one a month each summer I could read the rest of the titles addressed in only a few years -- I have a few left, I hope. ;-P Anyway, I'm going to choose a couple others to read along with War and Peace this summer.
Chris -- is it in the blog post or the podcast notes -- I'm still not seeing this -- wonder if my IE just isn't showing it for some reason?
It isn't just not opening because it's a pop-up because it would show up as a look at the info bar and click to show pop-up and that is not happening.
There's a widget to a list? Where? I must be asleep at the switch but I don't see any widget anywhere.
Hmmm -- I'm not certain I can say I truly wanted to read this as it is more of a case of having felt I am supposed to have wanted to read it -- War and Peace. I will be reading it in the new translation for a group discussion this summer. Now -- does this still qualify for this or do Ineed another that I want to read but which hasn't come to the point of actually on deck to read?
Sorry -- my mind just works that way sometimes.
Suzanne wrote: "Dottie wrote: "Still on my James kick and am also deeply entangled in The Elegance of the Hedgehog which is full of references to Proust and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -- I LOVE Prous..."
As I said -- Elegance being so full of references to Proust and Anna Karenina, I'm loving it -- I stopped a few pages short of finishing last night just so I could have a small "closing visit" with the book this evening -- I hope I'm not too terribly disappointed in the ending -- but will have to tell you tomorrow! I love all the many ideas floating about and I love how it's poking fun at its own multi-faceted thinking and at the very ideas its espousing at times -- did you find it humorous?
ETA: No, I cannot wait till tomorrow -- yes, it had one of those endings which have you protesting but then again -- it ended perfectly also -- and yes, I think I can have it both ways. What a book! One of those I want to tell everyone to go read ASAP.
Libby wrote: "Listening to "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen. there are two narrators -- the young Jacob and the 90-year-old or 93-year-old Jacob. I'm disc three and enjoying it."
Oh, that sounds like such a great way for that to have been recorded. I may reread it by listening.
