Do recommendations you didn't take count? A friend of mine was big into L. Ron Hubbard in school, and tried to get me to read Battlefield Earth. Pass.
I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 27, 2012 2:18:15 pm PDT #19839 of 28564
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 2:25:07 pm PDT #19840 of 28564
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Well, I guess, Matt. I think you made the right call. Meara, yeah, that happened to me too. I might have been fine with it if I only read the one, though.
Zenkitty - Sep 27, 2012 2:34:40 pm PDT #19841 of 28564
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Cass, I had the same reaction to Kite Runner. It left a sour taste in my brain that will never go away. From that book I learned the valuable lesson that it really is okay to stop reading and not finish a book.
sj - Sep 27, 2012 2:51:58 pm PDT #19842 of 28564
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I loved the movie version of The Kite Runner. I never read the book, but I'm all about the misery in books.
Cass - Sep 27, 2012 2:53:03 pm PDT #19843 of 28564
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
From that book I learned the valuable lesson that it really is okay to stop reading and not finish a book.
I'm still learning that lesson. I so wish I had just given it up instead of this stupid feeling angry at a book. I mean, that's ridiculous. It's a book, why was I angry at it? Even worse, I am still angry at it. I need to learn to stop reading.
dcp - Sep 27, 2012 3:22:17 pm PDT #19844 of 28564
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Kite Runner
Absolutely.
Dana - Sep 27, 2012 3:42:51 pm PDT #19845 of 28564
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
My aunt gave me The Celestine Prophecy.
Kat - Sep 27, 2012 6:37:59 pm PDT #19846 of 28564
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
There is one line in Kite Runner that I adore. I think it sums up the immigrant experience as many of my students feel it. Chapter 11, I think: "Baba loved the idea of America. It was living in America that gave him an ulcer."
I feel that way about so much in my life. I love the idea of it, but the reality of it gives me pains.
DawnK - Sep 27, 2012 7:09:43 pm PDT #19847 of 28564
giraffe mode
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Maybe I just missed the point of it but man, I did not enjoy it.
Kat - Sep 27, 2012 7:19:37 pm PDT #19848 of 28564
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Do you ever preorder books on Amazon, then feel surprised when they show up?