Thanks for all the great suggestions! (Her Fearful Symmetry is definitely on my list.)
Well, I kicked off my summer reading last week with Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson.
I really enjoyed both of them. In fact, Housekeeping is one of the best books I’ve read in a long long time. I loved Gilead, but this was just as good if not better. So the summer is off to a great start!
Except now I’ve started The Sea by John Banville, and I suspect it’s pretty good but it’s never going to be as good as Housekeeping so I’m just constantly comparing it and being disappointed. Plus I don’t like the main character.
Have you ever really loved a book but disliked the main character? I can’t think of any examples but there must be some.
I'm trying to read The Sea at the moment too but the main character grates on me after a while. It's a book I've owned for a while and never made much progress with.
ReplyDeleteyes! books are hard to come by here so until mark got back from the US with a new stash for me, i borrowed 'Eat, Pray, Love' from a friend...so the book had some good ideas and such - but I could not stand the writer. I almost didn't finish it and I can NEVER not finish a book - but I stuck through it.
ReplyDeleteI have a 50-page-rule. If I'm not into it by page 50 and if I'm not gripped by page 100 I give up. Life's too short and TBR piles are too big. Imagine if you gave every loser you ever dated a whole year of your life just to see if it would get better! Think what you're missing!
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