Matthew’s Comments (group member since Mar 08, 2015)

Matthew’s comments from the Reading List Completists group.

Liane wrote: "I also enjoyed this. Without Matthew’s recommendation, I probably wouldn’t have read this book, wholly due to my recollections of the movie which I didn’t enjoy (also not a Kubrick fan, generally)...."

Glad you enjoyed it! The intro was very interesting - lots of good perspective.

Eileen wrote: "Okay! I will finally read this, lol!"

My month has started off crazy - I gave only done audio for the past few weeks. I will get to this soon, though!

V for Vendetta is the May 2021 Poll winner!

Discuss the May 2021 Completist Poll winner here.

Sorry for the delay in getting the poll out this month. Life has been extra crazy and busy for me for the past few weeks. I have barely found time to read except audiobooks when doing chores. Hoping by mid-May to settle back in to some decent reading time!

Click below to vote in the May 2021 Poll:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Hope all is well for everyone and you are doings some awesome reading!

Anyone need some smaller discussion threads for this, or will the general thread with spoilers marked be enough?

I am not rereading this one as I read it within the past few years so I am not sure if it is divided into sections that would be easy to break down for more focused discussion.

Let me know!

Life has been extra crazy the past couple of months so I am way behind on my book clubs and reading in general! Also, I am behind on posting the poll for next month.

I am going to try and get something out ASAP!

This was a quick read - and I liked it even more with this re-read. So many layers to explore!

Click below for my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Carol wrote: "Matthew wrote: "Finally getting into this one . . .

Is it just me or does the poem sound like when a student is given an assignment to write a poem and the force it to rhyme because "rhyme = poem"..."

I was wondering if it was intentional . . .

Finally getting into this one . . .

Is it just me or does the poem sound like when a student is given an assignment to write a poem and the force it to rhyme because "rhyme = poem"?

Jessica wrote: "All right All right I will read this one this month. GoodReads never lies and it has been on my currently reading tab wayyyy to long. In fact I saw that I started reading on August 17, 2020... it d..."

I love the Rama series! I hope you get into 2001 this time around.

General Discussion for the April to June 2021 Completist Selection

Our April 2021 selection starts today!

In what has become a grand tradition for this group, we have a tie! In fact, it was almost a three way tie - The Terror finished just one vote behind the co-winners.

Instead of a tie-breaker, we will just do the following:

April to June 2021 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
July to September 2021 - House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Time to vote for our April 2021 selection. I chose six books from our various must read lists for your evaluation and vote.

Click below to vote now!

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

It has been a while since we have done a second chance poll for the big reads. Some of the titles have appeared in recent big reads polls because there are not quite as many large books on our must read lists.

The books in our poll are all books that got many votes, but never won.

Click below to vote now!

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Happy voting and happy reading!

I just realized I never came back to the thread to share my review!

Here it is:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished a few days ago but have not yet had time to collect my thoughts for a review.

I listened to it, but not Lin Manuel Miranda - that does sound interesting.

It is a book that some may have a difficult time listening to because of language and the depiction of women. But it is a very indepth historical fiction novel with lots of the history and culture of mid 1900s Dominican Republic. So, if it is true to the times and the way people talked . . . it might be tough to swallow, but its real!

I enjoyed the history. The story was okay, but not a lot of payoff in the end. There was a lot of intricate and indepth build up that seemed to suddenly end without and real point being achieved.

I hope to write my review today, but I think I am going to be giving it 3 stars

FYI:

I did some follow-up research:

1 league = 3.45234 miles

20,000 leagues = 69,046.8 miles

Paula W wrote: "Can I admit something here, in this safe space of fellow readers, that is super embarrassing to me? Please don’t shame me. But, it took me reading this book to realize that it isnt about a depth of..."

Check out my review - I say the exact same thing!