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K.D. Did you find The Historian to need a bit of editing? My wife was reading it and stopped. She commented to me it could have easily have been half the pages. She also had issues with the plot structure.K.D. Lightner said:Finished The Historian, which I highly recommend.
This is exactly what she was talking about. She felt it was too long and could be cut by half and there was too much non essential info going on. You mention the three simultaneous searches. I was told there is no smooth transition between them. My wife mentioned not realizing the plot had changed and needing to go back to find where it switched!K.D. Lightner said:Feraud -- it was a very long book and could get convoluted at time with three searches going on simultaneously, I sometimes had to struggle to keep the searches separate in my mind.
Great comments! I feel the same way about monsters and vampires in particular. How bad could being undead be if according to the Rice novels vampires have cool "superhero" like powers. I dislike films that give the fiend.."baggage"! I do not want to identify with my monsters. I want 'em bad and killed off at the end of the film! lolK.D. Lightner said:Then, along came Anne Rice and suddenly the scare was gone for vampires -- her books made you want to be a vampire or at least drink red wine and pretend it was blood. I was no longer scared of them. I am hopeful that books like this one may return the undead to the realm of horror they once inspired.
matei said:I recently finished "Kafka On The Shore" by Haruki Murakami, as well as "Heart of a Dog", by Mihail Bulgakov. I like Murakami's work - especially "The Wind Up Bird Chronicles".
K.D. Lightner said:Then, along came Anne Rice and suddenly the scare was gone for vampires -- her books made you want to be a vampire or at least drink red wine and pretend it was blood. I was no longer scared of them. I am hopeful that books like this one may return the undead to the realm of horror they once inspired.
I guess what rivited me was the subject matter and the research into the history of Vlad Dracula. I am now reading a book, Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula. I like to know the origins of things, real or imagined.
karol
K.D. Lightner said:I guess what rivited me was the subject matter and the research into the history of Vlad Dracula. I am now reading a book, Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula. I like to know the origins of things, real or imagined.
karol
Jack Scorpion said:I loved The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. However, Norwegian Wood I didn't like as much and kind of gave up reading all his books. I'd heard Kafka on the Shore was disappointing. Can you tell me otherwise?
matei said:I didn't like "Norwegian Wood" at all.
"Kafka on the Shore" isn't bad at all. It isn't as good as "Wind UP Bird Chronicle" - if that were a "10", this would be a "7.5".
matei said:Emmm... I liked both "A Wild Sheep Chase" and "Dance, Dance, Dance" were both very good, a tie for second place.
Oh - I that reminds me - "Death and the Penguin", by Andrei Kurkov was very good, I recently finished that as well.