Comments on Pie Not Included: Year-End Book Wrapup

Kevin: I see your point about Lolita I GUESS, but ...

2008-01-07T11:11:00.000-08:00

Kevin: I see your point about Lolita I GUESS, but if you hate Pale Fire, don't ever tell me about it.

Miss Rachel, I have never read the Custom of the Country. Is it Wharton? I'll have to check it out; it's probably an eText somewhere.

Wow, Laurie, 91 books! Pretty good! I count audiobooks the same, although I don't count rereads... I reread my favorite kids' books over and over.. it would be like, "I read 500 books this year, including Where the Red Fern Grows, Franny and Zooey, and The Black Stallion's Filly 10 times each."

I read 91 books this year(includes 5 audio books I...

2008-01-07T08:41:00.000-08:00

I read 91 books this year
(includes 5 audio books I listened to). I also listened to the Harry Potter books on audio for a refresher (Jim Dale is amazing).

I read the Outlander series this year which overall I enjoyed (book 5 was a low point). also, read the Little House on the Prairie series all the way through - it is fun to revisit books you loved as a child.

I capture the Castle was definitely one of my favorite books I read this year.

YOUR A LOOSER YOU MORRON!!!Just kidding of course....

2008-01-06T08:23:00.000-08:00

YOUR A LOOSER YOU MORRON!!!

Just kidding of course... I haven't read many of these books, but I did read Summer and quite loved it. Very depressing ending, but then, that's what I've come to expect from Wharton. Tell me, have you ever read The Custom of the Country? Now that one is really good and even a bit humorous in places.

Sorry, I guess I need to sit in the "literary heat...

2008-01-03T13:55:00.000-08:00

Sorry, I guess I need to sit in the "literary heathens" section. I'll always be of the opinion that Lolita is a 40-page story bloated to 300 by Nabokov's florid prose. Eventually I'll check out Pale Fire from the library and give Nabokov another shot but, even with as beautifully written as it was, Lolita bored me to tears because I never gave a rat's ass about Humbert or Dolores.

I am going to hopefully get to "Never Let Me Go" t...

2008-01-02T11:39:00.000-08:00

I am going to hopefully get to "Never Let Me Go" this year. But COME ON, LOLITA IS GENIUS!!! YOU ARE INSANE!!!!

Melinda and I just purchased I Capture the Castle ...

2008-01-02T11:37:00.000-08:00

Melinda and I just purchased I Capture the Castle and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, so I'll be reviewing both of those in 2008.

For me, my Top 5:
1. A Dirty Job (Christopher Moore)
2. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
3. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
4. The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
5. Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)

And Bottom 5:
1. Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
2. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
3. Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way (Bruce Campbell)
4. Operation Shylock (Philip Roth)
5. Cell (Stephen King)

I didn't quite match your pace, reading only 25 books last year... my Bottom 5 were the only one- and two-star rated books; the other twenty were all three-, four- and five-star books. So like you, I had a good book year.

Oh, I lent it to h and L. and L. apparently psycho...

2007-12-31T19:08:00.000-08:00

Oh, I lent it to h and L. and L. apparently psychotically loved it. They both liked it, but L. especially. So thanks from her too!

I am so excited you loved We Have Always Lived in ...

2007-12-31T18:24:00.000-08:00

I am so excited you loved We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It was also one of my very favorite books of the past year. Shirley Jackson is really an overlooked genius. Yay!