Book Post - Number 1
Jan. 7th, 2006 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melwilSo, one of my aims for this year is to read books I haven't read before, rather than rereading my favourites over and over again. since I have a tonne of books sitting in my shelves that I haven't read before, I thought I'd start there.
Book 1: Holy Smoke by Anna and Jane Campion
I go back into the hut and eat the single piece of cake alloted to me. What a guts, a stress eater, he doesn't seem a typical gutser, he seems in control, unlike me.
Hmm. A book written by sisters who were writing the movie of it at the same time. They should have stuck to the screenplay. It tells the story of Ruth, who went to India, was captured by a cult and now needs to be deprogrammed by PJ, the arrogant American.
The story has pedestrian main characters and poorly fleshed out secondary characters, with all of them horribly unlikable. It has a strange style of swapping between the main characters each chapter, although the story seems to call for the swapping to happen earlier.
Lots of sex. And dressing in drag. All of it having no real bearing on the story. And a really annoying habit of writing laughter like this: "He laughed. 'Heh, heh, heh."
On a scale of 1-5 (1, can't finish it; 5, can't put it down) - this book was a 2. I finished it, but enjoyed nothing about it
Scream PlayA review from Spike Magazine
Amazon.com page
Book 2: Wilde and Busker by Jennifer Dabbs
My mother has been a constant worry to me all my life.
This young adults book was a much easier read. It tells the story of Anthea, a 17 year old living in Melbourne with her flighty mother. Anthea takes off to Sydney to live with her Grandmother who is turning her old house into a boarding house. Anthea takes up a job at a book store, and makes friends with a local busker.
The main character is interesting, especially her relationship with her mother. Some of the secondary characters bugged me, it felt like we spent too much time worrying about the young dancer's drug problem, and the young actress's men, rather than looking at the more interesting book store owner, and the time Anthea spent there. It isn't one of the best Australian young adult books I've read, but it was an interesting sotry that made me want to know some more.
On my 1-5 scale, this one was probably a 3 - about average.
Book 1: Holy Smoke by Anna and Jane Campion
I go back into the hut and eat the single piece of cake alloted to me. What a guts, a stress eater, he doesn't seem a typical gutser, he seems in control, unlike me.
Hmm. A book written by sisters who were writing the movie of it at the same time. They should have stuck to the screenplay. It tells the story of Ruth, who went to India, was captured by a cult and now needs to be deprogrammed by PJ, the arrogant American.
The story has pedestrian main characters and poorly fleshed out secondary characters, with all of them horribly unlikable. It has a strange style of swapping between the main characters each chapter, although the story seems to call for the swapping to happen earlier.
Lots of sex. And dressing in drag. All of it having no real bearing on the story. And a really annoying habit of writing laughter like this: "He laughed. 'Heh, heh, heh."
On a scale of 1-5 (1, can't finish it; 5, can't put it down) - this book was a 2. I finished it, but enjoyed nothing about it
Scream PlayA review from Spike Magazine
Amazon.com page
Book 2: Wilde and Busker by Jennifer Dabbs
My mother has been a constant worry to me all my life.
This young adults book was a much easier read. It tells the story of Anthea, a 17 year old living in Melbourne with her flighty mother. Anthea takes off to Sydney to live with her Grandmother who is turning her old house into a boarding house. Anthea takes up a job at a book store, and makes friends with a local busker.
The main character is interesting, especially her relationship with her mother. Some of the secondary characters bugged me, it felt like we spent too much time worrying about the young dancer's drug problem, and the young actress's men, rather than looking at the more interesting book store owner, and the time Anthea spent there. It isn't one of the best Australian young adult books I've read, but it was an interesting sotry that made me want to know some more.
On my 1-5 scale, this one was probably a 3 - about average.
