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erin · Chanel

RE: What Book are You Reading?

laken1 · Hermes

mikacat wrote:

I am starting DIvine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood--Rebecca Wells.

Let me know what you think. I couldn't get past the first 10 pages or so. I just couldn't get into it. Let me know if it's worth trying again...I did see the movie, but I like reading the books anyway.

nicoley · Coach

laken1 wrote:

mikacat wrote: I am starting DIvine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood--Rebecca Wells. Let me know what you think. I couldn't get past the first 10 pages or so. I just couldn't get into it. Let me know if it's worth trying again...I did see the movie, but I like reading the books anyway.

I read this book, and it wasn't as good as I expected it to be... It was really hard for me to get through the book, but it did have some good themes throughout it, but didn't like it enough to recommend it. I did also read the prequel book to it, I cant remember the name right now, but If you do decide to read ya yas I would definitely read the prequel first, because it tells you alot about the characters that you kind of need to know for the yayas. I couldn't picture reading the ya yas before the prequel book.

sfcaligirl · Dooney & Bourke

i just started "a million little pieces" last night. very compelling!

Seashells · Dooney & Bourke

nicoley013 wrote:

laken1 wrote: mikacat wrote: I am starting DIvine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood--Rebecca Wells. Let me know what you think. I couldn't get past the first 10 pages or so. I just couldn't get into it. Let me know if it's worth trying again...I did see the movie, but I like reading the books anyway.

I actually really liked the book and hated the movie. The book developed the characters more than the movie.

I am getting backed up on my reading.

I am reading some Michael Moore right now to satisfy the conspiracy theorist in me. Will they ever trust us again? and I am going on to Dude where's our country?

For some good lit, I have The Left Behind series waiting for me to finish as well as Memoirs of a Geisha.

And to satisfy the trashiness in me, I started Sandra Brown's White Hot, but have neglected to finish it yet.

All this in between my Business Week and PR Week that I have to read as well. Ugh!

esquiress · Marc Jacobs

just finished the other boleyn girl--totally riveting. i'm dying to talk about it so let me know if any of you all have read it, think i'm going to cross-post in entertainment as well.

also just finished a heartbreaking work of staggering genius--fascinating. this one you have to have patience with though, like don't drum your fingers waiting for him to get to the point because it's a very "the journey itself is the destination" type of story.

oh and i also recently read the namesake--loved it.

right now i'm reading the unbearable lightness of being.

relrel · Marc Jacobs

lindsayp wrote:

halleybird wrote: Next I am either reading The Kite Runner or Pillars of the Earth, both of which have been on my bookshelf for ages. Ooh, I lurve Pillars of the Earth!! I've read it like 20 times, the binding fell apart on it! Very good imo!

pillars of the earth was freaking fantastic...so unlike his other books.

memoirs of a geisha was fantastic too...if anybody is interested, there is a book "wild swans" that deals with women in china. not really same as the geisha book but both are about women and asia, that's close enough right?

im actually really really bad about books. i prolly buy more books than any other thing, including shoes and clothes. and i hate to give them away because they look so pretty sitting on my uh, milk carton shelves. books rock!

member · Hermes

I finally started reading A Million Little Pieces - my BF took forever to read it! I want to read Memoirs of a Geisha so bad too.

wicked · Coach

Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Maus II : A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus)

ejc423 · Coach

Seashells wrote:

nicoley013 wrote: laken1 wrote: mikacat wrote: I am starting DIvine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood--Rebecca Wells. Let me know what you think. I couldn't get past the first 10 pages or so. I just couldn't get into it. Let me know if it's worth trying again...I did see the movie, but I like reading the books anyway. I actually really liked the book and hated the movie. The book developed the characters more than the movie.

I agree, but it could be because I read the book well before the movie came out. I read the prequel, Little Altars Everywhere after the I read Divine Secrets (that's the order in which they were written), and I liked DS better. LAE was darker I think.

hotcocoa · Kate Spade

i'm so glad to see this post. i swear, i was just going to post the same question.

i am about 30 pages away from finishing "the da vinci code" and i cannot wait until i am done. it is so even close to being as good as i thought it would be. i am very disappointed.

next up for me is "the historian". i bumped it to the top of my list when i found out that the author will be at my library for a discussion and book signing at the end of january. i hope i can attend!

i just copied down an entire page full of books that have been mentioned in this post. so i'm off to look at some of them.

nicoley · Coach

HotCocoa... I agree with you about the DaVinci Code.. so glad to find someone else that felt the same..

My friend read the historian when it first came out.. And she enjoyed, just complained that she had to refer to the map in the book alot to understand where things were taking place, and complained about the length, but other than that, she really enjoyed it! Let me know what you think of it when your done :)

Maddie · Coach

The DaVinci Code sucks. I'm in a Facebook group about how bad Dan Brown is at writing...
"This group is dedicated to those individuals who are sufficiently erudite to recognize that Dan Brown is the literary equivalent of Whitesnake. Sure it sounds good at first, and you might even have an mp3 or two that you like to jam to when you're drunk, but in the end you realize it's cheap, vacant, tacky, and makes you not read so good no more.
Unless you're mentally handicapped, a punch drunk former boxer, or did not learn English as your primary language, you recognize that Dan Brown is a literary hack who at best graduated from Amherst, and at worst has compromised the integrity of the modern novel."
I'm kind of a literary snob, but if I'm going to read something trashy there better be sex and drugs. This book just did not deliver.

Tara · Dooney & Bourke

esquiress wrote:

also just finished a heartbreaking work of staggering genius--fascinating. this one you have to have patience with though, like don't drum your fingers waiting for him to get to the point because it's a very "the journey itself is the destination" type of story. oh and i also recently read the namesake--loved it.

Oh esquiress, you mentioned 2 of my fav books of all time! Heatbreaking Work is my favorite book ever - just so honest and true. I almost cry just thinking about it. And the Namesake was beautifully written, as if each word was meticulously thought out.

sfcaligirl · Dooney & Bourke

Maddie wrote:

The DaVinci Code sucks. I'm in a Facebook group about how bad Dan Brown is at writing... "This group is dedicated to those individuals who are sufficiently erudite to recognize that Dan Brown is the literary equivalent of Whitesnake. Sure it sounds good at first, and you might even have an mp3 or two that you like to jam to when you're drunk, but in the end you realize it's cheap, vacant, tacky, and makes you not read so good no more. Unless you're mentally handicapped, a punch drunk former boxer, or did not learn English as your primary language, you recognize that Dan Brown is a literary hack who at best graduated from Amherst, and at worst has compromised the integrity of the modern novel." I'm kind of a literary snob, but if I'm going to read something trashy there better be sex and drugs. This book just did not deliver.

bwahahahahahaha!!!

Tara · Dooney & Bourke

Maddie wrote:

The DaVinci Code sucks. I'm in a Facebook group about how bad Dan Brown is at writing... "This group is dedicated to those individuals who are sufficiently erudite to recognize that Dan Brown is the literary equivalent of Whitesnake. Sure it sounds good at first, and you might even have an mp3 or two that you like to jam to when you're drunk, but in the end you realize it's cheap, vacant, tacky, and makes you not read so good no more. Unless you're mentally handicapped, a punch drunk former boxer, or did not learn English as your primary language, you recognize that Dan Brown is a literary hack who at best graduated from Amherst, and at worst has compromised the integrity of the modern novel." I'm kind of a literary snob, but if I'm going to read something trashy there better be sex and drugs. This book just did not deliver.

Maddie this post literally made my day. I feel that the DaVinci Code is the equivalent of the mass market paperbacks you find in the grocery store check out aisle.......and I don't get the hype.

hotcocoa · Kate Spade

Tara wrote:

Maddie wrote:
The DaVinci Code sucks. I'm in a Facebook group about how bad Dan Brown is at writing... "This group is dedicated to those individuals who are sufficiently erudite to recognize that Dan Brown is the literary equivalent of Whitesnake. Sure it sounds good at first, and you might even have an mp3 or two that you like to jam to when you're drunk, but in the end you realize it's cheap, vacant, tacky, and makes you not read so good no more. Unless you're mentally handicapped, a punch drunk former boxer, or did not learn English as your primary language, you recognize that Dan Brown is a literary hack who at best graduated from Amherst, and at worst has compromised the integrity of the modern novel." I'm kind of a literary snob, but if I'm going to read something trashy there better be sex and drugs. This book just did not deliver.
Maddie this post literally made my day. I feel that the DaVinci Code is the equivalent of the mass market paperbacks you find in the grocery store check out aisle.......and I don't get the hype.

yeah, i'm not getting the hype either. i feel a little mislead by it all. i guess i thought it was going to be more academic and less mainstream trash turn hollywood movie. so sad. the story had such potential.

Maddie · Coach

Haha, I stumbled upon the group and joined immediately. This is another hilarious thing from the message board...

My favorite source of literary amusement is the "reader reviews" section of Amazon.com. In the most recent entry, I unearthed this gem:

"If there are flaws in the plot, I was too busy reading to discover any. That is probably the sign of a terrific book!"

No. No it isn't.

I used to put the Da Vinci Code into the librarian's category of "well, at least they're reading". However, I came to realize that the book did much more harm than good, empowering in the average American beach-blanket novel reader a sense of unearned pretention. I especially hate this type of reader:

"The idea and statement forwarded in this book is the first for me. Although some people say that not all of the info is true but just the whole idea is provoking and plausible. I'm going to check them out on ther books. Well, you can not read the Bible (specially New Testament) with the same light now."

If your life was changed by this novel, you never had one to begin with. I will allow another avid Dan Brown fan to cement my point. However correct he may be in making the comparison to Nicholas Cage, I don't believe this insight was intentional.

"Since its release it has sent me clamoring for Brown's other novels (Look for "Angels and Demons" as it is the first book in which Robert Langdon appears) and other books of this genre. While many fans of this book are eagerly awaiting a the May 2006 release of the "DaVini Code" movie, look for "National Treasure" to fill your needs in the mean time."

Sorry for hijacking!

halleybird · Hermes

DaVinci Code was a good story, and I am glad I read it. It's also a good book for people who don't read a lot, because it's very fast-moving. But I am tired of people acting like it's the greatest literary work of our time, and I am tired of people thinking Dan Brown invented the theory in his book. It is a drugstore novel, BUT there are lots of authors who appeal to the mainstream AND write well (Stephen King, for example).

jen · Kate Spade

Wicked-I read Maus and it is fantastic! It's totally about my Grandpa!

Other books I've read this year:

Oronooko-Sucks, hated it.

The Tempest-Love Shakespeare, hated this play.

Found-Great book, one of my favorites. It's full of little notes and pictures people have found on the ground, it's so funny.

Une Semaine de Bonte-The first comic, I think put together in the 1800's. It's amazing and very surreal and disturbing.