the book baton! again!
Number of books on shelf
i have no idea. there’s one three shelved book case in my room, flowing to capacity. there’s a massive number of books in my house, all of which don’t have a specific owner so its hard to say what’s who’s…
Last book purchased
a room of one’s own - virginia woolf
Book I’m reading right now
the hours - michael cunningham
5 books that I enjoyed
1) the god of small things - arundathie roy
2) man and boy - tony parsons
3) on beauty - zadie smith
4) the harry potters - j. k rowling
5) swimming in the monsoon sea - shyam selvadurai
Most disappointing book read
i thought about this question for a long time. it would have to be deception point, by dan brown. sometimes i’m thinking ‘why did i even read it?’ and i know it was simply because it was a dan brown, and given that dan brown isn’t exactly the perfect novelist, i was in the least expecting a fast paced thriller. but its not. deception point is boring, and predictable and utterly insipid.
Worst book read
this would have to be do the right thing, by shyama perera. shyama perera is a new-york based sri lankan woman (i’m not even going to say writer), and the book was utterly horrendous. it’s flippant and stupidly thought out. it stereotypes women, relationships, marriage and infidelity in the stupidest, most sensationalized, romanticized way. pissed me off. it was like sweet valley high for bored house wives who have nothing better to do than read books that tell them that women were born to be subserviant and used.
I think you just saved me from buying Deception Point, but I’ll try to download the ebook anyway
Comment by Kulendra — February 23, 2006 @ 3:49 am
OH NO! Again?! On consecutive days? Is that allowed?
Comment by prose — February 23, 2006 @ 3:50 am
prose : oh no.
i’m sorry. my bad. didn’t remember you’d already been passed it.
Comment by electra — February 23, 2006 @ 6:07 am
Totally agree on- the most disappointing book ever. I expected Deception Point to be awesome because I loved the other 3, i.e. The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons and Digital Fortress but talk about the disappointment that just struck me right from the start. It’s not tha great at all…
Comment by Vindi — February 23, 2006 @ 2:00 pm
who is dan brown ?
Comment by sittingnut — February 23, 2006 @ 3:40 pm
vindi : dont get me wrong. i didnt LOVE any of the dan brown’s. in fact they were all exceptionally badly written. but the others were tolerable.
Comment by electra — February 23, 2006 @ 5:48 pm
errr: I think you’ll find the Perera book was an updating of the Ramayana and you were supposed to think all the things you did. It’s putting the Rama and Sita story into a modern setting and questioning those values against our lives today - ergo, they don’t fit, they’re stereotyped and chauvinist - so why do we still stick to them!!
Comment by clare masterson — May 21, 2006 @ 11:15 pm
clare : oh i GOT it. trust me, i even liked the parrallels between the modern day setting and the epic. but it was badly done and utterly predictable.
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