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If I stomp a dimwitted Swiss râle des genêts on the way home from work it is YOUR fault, Paul Bryant. I hope you can live with yourself.
Manny, I accept full responsibility.
Having once lived next field to two corncrakes, who do their rasping croaky thing all damn night all damn summer, I would definitely have been thrilled by a Corncrake Mower Massacre.
This was so funny; thank you! I would obviously loathe this book and am grateful you saved me time and money with such an acerbic, droll review!!
thanks Anne; I think more fun writing the review than reading the book in this case.
Amen! I can't finish it. Half way through and I just can't anymore.
thanks Alison... it was a very curious reading experience.
Like wading through particularly viscous, dark, sticky, black treacle. I agree with your every word Paul. For me, dull, turgid, boring but as you say, beautifully written in parts. I can hardly believe I finished it. A self-sacrificing act of personal persistence. Well done me!
yes, congratulations to you and to the marketing department who sold us both this treaclefest.
I've got a feeling this is a bit of a "man thing"...
I always get this pleasant smug feeling when you give a book the same number of stars that I have. Thank you!
I hope it happens a lot! Happy new 2019 etc!
Paul wrote: "care to expand on that?"
Well, I mean that men may find it harder to relate to because at times you want to shake her out of her alcohol dependency, whereas with a man you might either want to punch him or just leave him to it
Review clearly written by someone who has no idea about the nature of addiction
fortunately true, unless you count reading
You are an excellent writer, but so much of your review really rankles! I’ve been trying to put my finger on why that is for a few days. Perhaps it is the situation Alain de Botton describes thus, “Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
thanks Katie... it could be I wasn't the target audience for this one!
I just finished this book (for some reason I usually scroll through some of the reviews after I finish reading books. Maybe it's a way of hearing other people's thoughts on the book without the book club). Anyways I can relate to some of the thoughts you share and found some of the book to be very redundant. At the same time I think for someone fighting addiction it makes sense that their world constantly comes back to that thing. Her memoir is a way of sharing that journey with us.
I think I enjoyed the book more because I enjoy learning about nature, other places, and things like that.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and a bit of humor
Yes, your review does seem churlish, and rather mean spirited.
I loved this brave book, thanks Amy!
Spot-on! Too many wee birdies for me, but I wish her all the best.
I haven’t read this book but your review strikes me as extremely narrow-minded and mean spirited. A lot goes into writing a memoir like this, and if you’re not prepared to meet the writer where they are, then you should leave well enough alone and not pick it up in the first place.
You got a lot of flack for expressing your opinion on a book. You were expressing an opinion on the book not the person.
I’m in the middle of this book right now and your review is spot-on how I feel about it. I don’t know that I’m going to finish it, I’m just not enjoying it and life is too short to read something you don’t enjoy.
that is very true ! there are lots of others out there.... the word you are looking for is DNF !
It’s funny the quotes you brought up convinced me to read the book, I’m halfway through now and I think it’s wonderful!
What a brilliant review. I AGREEEE. I gave it a mean spirited 1/5 stars
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Manny, I accept full responsibility.
I just finished a memoir with a somewhat similar experience as you describe here...sort of s self-absorbed person, yet the other reviewers seemed to "tiptoe" around that fact, too...
I have to say I did not know what a corncrakes was and since I am writing on my phone my spellcheck wants to call it "corn rape" WTH?!
I have to say I did not know what a corncrakes was and since I am writing on my phone my spellcheck wants to call it "corn rape" WTH?!
The Orkney Corncrake Mower Massacre (1982)....I betcha it would be a thriller....hahaa...
Having once lived next field to two corncrakes, who do their rasping croaky thing all damn night all damn summer, I would definitely have been thrilled by a Corncrake Mower Massacre.
This was so funny; thank you! I would obviously loathe this book and am grateful you saved me time and money with such an acerbic, droll review!!
thanks Anne; I think more fun writing the review than reading the book in this case.
Amen! I can't finish it. Half way through and I just can't anymore.
thanks Alison... it was a very curious reading experience.
Like wading through particularly viscous, dark, sticky, black treacle. I agree with your every word Paul. For me, dull, turgid, boring but as you say, beautifully written in parts. I can hardly believe I finished it. A self-sacrificing act of personal persistence. Well done me!
yes, congratulations to you and to the marketing department who sold us both this treaclefest.
I've got a feeling this is a bit of a "man thing"...
I always get this pleasant smug feeling when you give a book the same number of stars that I have. Thank you!
I hope it happens a lot! Happy new 2019 etc!
Paul wrote: "care to expand on that?"Well, I mean that men may find it harder to relate to because at times you want to shake her out of her alcohol dependency, whereas with a man you might either want to punch him or just leave him to it
Review clearly written by someone who has no idea about the nature of addiction
fortunately true, unless you count reading
You are an excellent writer, but so much of your review really rankles! I’ve been trying to put my finger on why that is for a few days. Perhaps it is the situation Alain de Botton describes thus, “Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
thanks Katie... it could be I wasn't the target audience for this one!
I just finished this book (for some reason I usually scroll through some of the reviews after I finish reading books. Maybe it's a way of hearing other people's thoughts on the book without the book club). Anyways I can relate to some of the thoughts you share and found some of the book to be very redundant. At the same time I think for someone fighting addiction it makes sense that their world constantly comes back to that thing. Her memoir is a way of sharing that journey with us. I think I enjoyed the book more because I enjoy learning about nature, other places, and things like that.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and a bit of humor
Yes, your review does seem churlish, and rather mean spirited. I loved this brave book, thanks Amy!
Spot-on! Too many wee birdies for me, but I wish her all the best.
I haven’t read this book but your review strikes me as extremely narrow-minded and mean spirited. A lot goes into writing a memoir like this, and if you’re not prepared to meet the writer where they are, then you should leave well enough alone and not pick it up in the first place.
You got a lot of flack for expressing your opinion on a book. You were expressing an opinion on the book not the person.
I’m in the middle of this book right now and your review is spot-on how I feel about it. I don’t know that I’m going to finish it, I’m just not enjoying it and life is too short to read something you don’t enjoy.
that is very true ! there are lots of others out there.... the word you are looking for is DNF !
It’s funny the quotes you brought up convinced me to read the book, I’m halfway through now and I think it’s wonderful!
What a brilliant review. I AGREEEE. I gave it a mean spirited 1/5 stars
