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Matthew’s
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At first it started of kind of confusing and was reminding me of Beloved, which I found to be very confusing with it's dialect and story structure. But, now about 25% in and it makes sense and is very interesting.
Brooklyn wrote: "A purposely confusing plot as an excuse to create a tone poem to lost souls and hope?"I like that!
This book starts today! I just downloaded my copy!
Discuss our March 2019 selection here
Sorry for getting this message out late - I was in Las Vegas for a long weekend trip and I tend not to do a lot of reading or spending time on the internet when I am there.Some of you may have seen this already, but our March 2019 selection will be The Color Purple (by 1 vote!). We had a great turnout for the poll and it ended up being a tight race between the winner, The Catcher In the Rye, and A Confederacy of Dunces. I am sure we will see the runners up again in a future poll.
Stay tuned for another Big Read Poll next month as well as our monthly selection poll.
Thanks again for participating! :)
The interesting thing about the story is I am enjoying it, but, I just hit 500 pages and I cannot believe it has taken 500 pages to tell what I have read so far. That isn't a bad thing, it just not feel like 500 pages of stuff has happened!
Brooklyn wrote: "Half way through and loving it. Can’t believe I have never read Chandler - truly the poet of Los Angeles. The sunshine, lust and corruption oozes out of the pores of this book like a ripe orange. M..."I am planning a few more hard-boiled books soon. I want to do some on audio because I like to hear the narrator do the hard-boiled voices!
Definitely some dated ways of looking at things in this book. When reading, you must accept that this was a different time, or you might get uncomfortable!
NancyJ wrote: "Thanks for sending me the post about your March poll. I posted it on the Great American Read Group page since our members may have similar interests. We're reading Rebecca and Pillars of the Earth ..."I might join you for Tom Sawyer - just depends on how my library holds come in!
March Poll is up - winner will be announced after it ends on February 21st:https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
So far, its exactly what I expected, and I couldn't be happier!
Starts today!
I found a copy on Kindle from my library - might get started before the 1st.
I have seen a lot of mentions of this book being compared to Harry Potter. Around 250 pages in, I am starting to see that. Lots of similarities. Different enough that it is not a bad thing, but definitely cut from the same cloth!
Jessica wrote: "Finished! Indeed a very fast moving story. Despite Phil's warning that the many still open questions won't be answered in the sequel, I will go and look for part 2 in my library. Cannot leave it a"Wow - did you read the whole thing this quickly! Impressive! :)
Finished - I am on the fence on this one, but already have some interesting conversation about it on my review:Click here for my review
Closing in on the end of the book - it has definitely improved as the book has gone on. I am feeling a strong foreboding as I near the end!
That is the part I just read!Great quote and go you for going the extra mile with the translation!
Henry wrote: "I have read 25 of these. It seems skewed to popular recent books. How do you include "Where the Sidewalk Ends", "Harry Potter" and "The Hunger Games", among others and leave out "War and Peace", "U..."Yeah, this might be more of a bestseller list or staff pick list.
