OT- Books

[Veronica]

Has anyone read The Life of Pi? I just finished it. I quite enjoyed it. It really made me think about some things. I found the end a bit disturbing.

Lise, have you finished Wicked yet?

V.

[mimitabby]

i read Wicked, i know you didn't ask me. It was an okay read, nothing to get really excited about. what's the life of Pi?

[spokewench]

Is a little disturbing but a book well worth reading! It is a story about a boy from India stuck with a tiger on a boat after the ship he was on sank. It has a real twist at the end so it is fun to read!

But, I liked Wicked as well! I guess I like books that have a different take on known values

[Nanci]

I just finished "The Rider" and loved it, and am now starting "23 Days in July" which is ok so far but kind of dry, while reading "The Fourth Hand" again in bed and "Party Of One: The Loner's Manifesto" in the bathroom, where the second re-reading of "Heft On Wheels" is being delayed.

[mimitabby]

The Rider?
is that about a bicyclist? a murder mystery? what?

[Veronica]

I didn't like the ending to Wicked. It was almost like he just got tired of writing.

V.

[SadieKate]

Well, heck, now what do I do? From my gigadawanda bedside pile of books I had pulled Wicked, Small Wonder (Barbara Kingsolver) and Snow Lake (Mary Lawson). I was tossing around the options.

So what do I read first?

[Veronica]

Personally, I think Wicked is skippable, especially if you have lots of other options. It was okay, but not great.

V.

[Nanci]

Editorial Reviews
From The New Yorker
At the start of this chronicle of a single bike race, the author glances up from his gear to assess the crowd of spectators. "Non-racers," he writes. "The emptiness of those lives shocks me." In immediate, living prose, Krabbé, a novelist as well as a cyclist, takes us with him, inch by inch, as he rides the hundred-and-thirty-seven-kilometre Tour de Mont Aigoual, a course through the mountains that is better known as one of the cruellest stages of the Tour de France. He imagines an official collecting his clothes "after I've died in the race" recalls a champion cyclist who suffocated to death while climbing one particularly nasty hill; and insists that "being a good loser is a despicable evasion." Along the way, he lays bare the athlete's peculiar mixture of arrogance and terror, viciousness and camaraderie, and the result is one of the more convincing love stories of recent memory.
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker

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Interestingly, this is the author who also wrote "The Vanishing" and "The Cave."

[mimitabby]

Personally, I think Wicked is skippable, especially if you have lots of other options. It was okay, but not great.

V.

I agree about Wicked. it was like... huh?? big deal!

I am reading Alias Grace right now by Margaret Atwood, and I am really enjoying it. It's about a woman convicted of murder 100 years ago. You go into this
other world. Excellent writing.

[WrensMom]

I didn't like the ending to Wicked. It was almost like he just got tired of writing.

I agree, but overall I still liked the book. I like those kind of books with a different take on the same story you already know, kind of like the oldie-but-goodie, Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley. If you have never read that one, I recommend it.

[WrensMom]

I am reading Alias Grace right now by Margaret Atwood, and I am really enjoying it. It's about a woman convicted of murder 100 years ago. You go into this
other world. Excellent writing.

That sounds pretty cool. I may have to check that out. I liked The Handmaid's Tale by her as well. I'm really not much of a fiction person, but sometimes the mood hits.

[Rakekay]

I just finished The Kite Runner. Originally I thought I wouldn't really like it, but I LOVED it. Highly recommend it.

[mimitabby]

I just finished The Kite Runner. Originally I thought I wouldn't really like it, but I LOVED it. Highly recommend it.

Yeah, me too. good book, very powerful and educational at the same time.
All about the life of some people in Afghanistan. It's autobiographical/fiction.

[Bikingmomof3]

I just finished The Kite Runner. Originally I thought I wouldn't really like it, but I LOVED it. Highly recommend it.

I agree. The Kite Runner was wonderful.