Yes, much of what negative reviewers of this book have to say is true:the writing is blunt and simple, the characters lack depth and complexity, it is quite male-focused in its subject matter and language, it has a bunch of quasi-religious mumbo-jumbo, and so on.This book should not be put on the list of great [...]
Honestly I don’t know what people are thinking when they market books anymore.The blurb on this book would have you believe that it’s not only a laugh riot — except for the beach scene which is “horrific” — but that it’s so remarkably written and in some way so easy to spoil that it all [...]
This is one of those rare books that makes me realize how grateful I am that I enjoy reading and am given the gift of being able to slip into someone else’s story and experience what they do through the written word. As other reviewers have noted: this is the story of a young woman [...]
The first “L.A. Candy” novel was a surprisingly sweet (no pun intended…well, maybe a little) first novel by reality star-cum-N.Y. Times Bestselling Author Lauren Conrad. Expectations were very low, so when the book hit stands with an engaging mix of wit, humor and surprisingly tight writing, the book became a bonafide hit among teen girls. [...]
This was a book recommended to me by a friend who also happened to tell me the ending before I read it.Remind me to give him a nasty stare!Anyway, this book starts off with a rather long introduction which the author wrote himself about his influences and motivation for writing Ender’s Game.The author has had [...]
The enthusiastic praise and adulation which critics have accorded the english publication of Carlo Ruiz Zafon’s first novel, “The Shadow of the Wind”, may trouble the reader who begins the book, worried that little might match his expectations. After all, reviewers who compare a writer’s work to a combination of Umberto Eco, or Jorge Luis [...]