Comments on: Book List http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/ Writing about reading Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:44:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Crit http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/comment-page-1/#comment-110152 Crit Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:38:58 +0000 http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/#comment-110152 Goodness. Terry Pratchett. Is a 'he'. English, writes absurdist fantasy (similar to Jasper Fforde) for want of a better genre title. Books are set on an alternative flat world (Discworld) populated by librarians, wizards of a sort, and morris dancers. I've only read a few and there are dozens. He's very prolific, and fans can get very obsessed in a Monty Python or Star Trek kind of way. So you tend to get a very polarised thing going on. I'm strangely in the middle. I read the first 4 or so, but after that it got a bit "yeah, but what's the point? do I really have the time and energy to invest in these amusing, but ultimately fairly stupid books?" the inevitable answer was "no" and so I stopped reading them. Goodness. Terry Pratchett. Is a ‘he’. English, writes absurdist fantasy (similar to Jasper Fforde) for want of a better genre title. Books are set on an alternative flat world (Discworld) populated by librarians, wizards of a sort, and morris dancers. I’ve only read a few and there are dozens. He’s very prolific, and fans can get very obsessed in a Monty Python or Star Trek kind of way. So you tend to get a very polarised thing going on. I’m strangely in the middle. I read the first 4 or so, but after that it got a bit “yeah, but what’s the point? do I really have the time and energy to invest in these amusing, but ultimately fairly stupid books?” the inevitable answer was “no” and so I stopped reading them.

]]> By: Julie http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/comment-page-1/#comment-109977 Julie Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:20:15 +0000 http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/#comment-109977 Crit, you're the second person to mention Jasper Fforde, so I think that clinches it. But the absence of Terry Pratchett is not deliberate. I don't even know who he (she?) is. What am I missing here? Oh yes, and Tess is one of the ones I'd read half of. That was a weird experience, by the way: watching the movie when I'd read just half the book. Crit, you’re the second person to mention Jasper Fforde, so I think that clinches it. But the absence of Terry Pratchett is not deliberate. I don’t even know who he (she?) is. What am I missing here?

Oh yes, and Tess is one of the ones I’d read half of. That was a weird experience, by the way: watching the movie when I’d read just half the book.

]]> By: Crit http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/comment-page-1/#comment-109944 Crit Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:36:26 +0000 http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/#comment-109944 Well, in that case, have you given Jasper Fforde a go? Very silly, but amusing. And I'd guess that the absence of Terry Pratchett is deliberate? I've read a few of them, and again, they were amusing, but silly. Other than that - Thomas Hardy is good value (<i>jude the obscure</i>, and <i>Tess</i> in particular) and William Wilkie Collins (<i>the moonstone</i>, and <i>the woman in white</i>) I did do my list... Well, in that case, have you given Jasper Fforde a go? Very silly, but amusing. And I’d guess that the absence of Terry Pratchett is deliberate? I’ve read a few of them, and again, they were amusing, but silly. Other than that – Thomas Hardy is good value (jude the obscure, and Tess in particular) and William Wilkie Collins (the moonstone, and the woman in white) I did do my list…

]]> By: Julie http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/comment-page-1/#comment-109799 Julie Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:48:39 +0000 http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/#comment-109799 I think we should revise the meme to request that commenters give recommendations to the poster about what on their list they should/shouldn't read. Thanks, you guys! :) And Sandy, thanks also for reminding me about Steve Amick. I haven't read anything yet but I've been wanting to. I think we should revise the meme to request that commenters give recommendations to the poster about what on their list they should/shouldn’t read. Thanks, you guys! :) And Sandy, thanks also for reminding me about Steve Amick. I haven’t read anything yet but I’ve been wanting to.

]]> By: Crit http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/comment-page-1/#comment-109181 Crit Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:10:19 +0000 http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/07/02/book-list/#comment-109181 Wow, what a great list, and what a great variation on a Meme. I think I'll take it up, but it is a biggie! On meeting someone who had read the same books - interesting. I reckon you'd have quite a bit in common, but given that from that list my 'read' list is pretty broad-ranging, perhaps not...I have some of my best conversations with a particular friend about books we've read, but my partner and I don't read much in common. Wow, what a great list, and what a great variation on a Meme. I think I’ll take it up, but it is a biggie!

On meeting someone who had read the same books – interesting. I reckon you’d have quite a bit in common, but given that from that list my ‘read’ list is pretty broad-ranging, perhaps not…I have some of my best conversations with a particular friend about books we’ve read, but my partner and I don’t read much in common.

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