The board's server will undergo upgrade maintenance tonight, Nov 5, 2014, beginning approximately around 10 PM ET. Prepare for some possible down time during this process.
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs. 373 pages. Too long. Reviews mixed. Rejected! Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Excellent, but I've read this already. Rejected! Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith. 480 pages. Too long. Rejected! Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. 487 pages. Too long. Too many uses of the word "erotic" in the description. Rejected! A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman. This is a possibility. But sorta feels like more of a winter book to me. Rejected!
Didn't realize you were so strict about a page count. If the writing is breezy and it's well paced and the characters are good... what difference does a page count make?
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47020 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
guestT wrote:
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs. 373 pages. Too long. Reviews mixed. Rejected!
It has four starts on Amazon based on 468 reviews, with 47% of those being five star and another 29% being four star; I would not consider this "mixed" as there will always be some people who don't like a given product. And it's a quick read, I assure you.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10254 Location: in the air tonight
Maybe George V. Higgins. The Friends of Eddie Coyle is probably his most famous. Cogan's Trade or The Digger's Game are my preferred books, especially the latter.
_________________ Please consider voting for me
Last edited by The Argonaut on Wed July 18, 2018 6:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
How To Get Into the Twin Palms by Karolina Waclawiak is really funny and breezy and strange in a good way. 192 pages. I read it in one day and I'm a slow reader. I flew threw that book. The writing is great.
Maybe George V. Higgins. The Friends of Eddie Coyle is probably his most famous. Cogan's Trade or The Digger's Game are my preferred books, especially the latter.
It's a part memoir and part mediation on a theme. It's poetic and powerful. The writing is outstanding. It's philosophical and poignant without being pretentious and overly dense. So far, the vignettes have revolved around femininity, motherhood, the Mormon church, passion, the environment/shared world, and, of course, voice. It's all about finding/using/defining/exploring one's voice and our connection to the world around us spiritually, physically, environmentally, and socially.
The book is absolutely brilliant. I thought I'd read it in one sitting because it's so short. But each sentence has so much to think about and unpack that I find myself re-reading each line multiple times, putting the book down and actually considering what I've just read, and moving on only once I've either gotten totally stuck on a concept or actually grasped what she's saying. Or what I hear her saying, at any rate.
It's a book I will gift to many, many people in my life, I can tell already.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 35 guests
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum