Books: Kindle Cleanup
Oct. 1st, 2011 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_lodden* Press One For Pig Latin by Robert Swiatek
Self-published, and a stunning example of why authors need editors. He may have some good or funny points, but they are lost amidst the long and pointless rambling. I did not get far before I called it quits.
* Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde (21)
Did Wilde self-publish, perchance? Though the title does not indicate it, this is a collection of short stories, and most of them I quite enjoyed the beginning of, but every single one of them just... ends. There's no denoument or tying up of loose ends-- just the beginning of the next story, which is unrelated. I kept going because I had hoped that the final story would tie them all together or something, but...
* Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Myserties by Sherry Seethaler (22)
According to the preface, these are real questions Seethaler has been asked, though presumably she culled the questions down to just the ones she felt were book-worthy. The whole thing was a solid "enh, whatever" for me, and it took me 5 months to read all the way through because it just didn't hold my attention well enough. What's there is reasonably well-written and understandable, it's just boring.
* Luck o' the Irish by Stephen D. Sullivan (23)
I met Mr. Sullivan at GenCon, where he was gracious enough to answer a lot of my questions about small-press publishing. I liked this book, until it ended in what I felt was a rather abrupt manner. It's a LOT shorter than I expected, and there's references within it to the protagonist's family and allusions to other things that have happened within the family, yet I checked and there does not appear to be a prequel or other books in the "series". Soooo... yeah. Over too soon, and not in the good way. More like in the "oh yeah, yeah baby, ooooh right there, oh god ye... what do you mean you've finished and you're going to go to sleep now?" way.
* Fool by Christopher Moore (24)
Rather a lot of swearing, and that comes from the woman who swears like a sailor. I don't fully know how I feel about this one; I generally like the concept of "familiar stories told from someone else's point of view" but this one was difficult to get engrossed in.
* Lady Susan by Jane Austen (25)
Did you know that they had anti-heroes in classical romance literature? Neither did I. I can't call this book "good" because I couldn't find a single character I could feel any real connection with, but it is well-written.
Self-published, and a stunning example of why authors need editors. He may have some good or funny points, but they are lost amidst the long and pointless rambling. I did not get far before I called it quits.
* Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde (21)
Did Wilde self-publish, perchance? Though the title does not indicate it, this is a collection of short stories, and most of them I quite enjoyed the beginning of, but every single one of them just... ends. There's no denoument or tying up of loose ends-- just the beginning of the next story, which is unrelated. I kept going because I had hoped that the final story would tie them all together or something, but...
* Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Myserties by Sherry Seethaler (22)
According to the preface, these are real questions Seethaler has been asked, though presumably she culled the questions down to just the ones she felt were book-worthy. The whole thing was a solid "enh, whatever" for me, and it took me 5 months to read all the way through because it just didn't hold my attention well enough. What's there is reasonably well-written and understandable, it's just boring.
* Luck o' the Irish by Stephen D. Sullivan (23)
I met Mr. Sullivan at GenCon, where he was gracious enough to answer a lot of my questions about small-press publishing. I liked this book, until it ended in what I felt was a rather abrupt manner. It's a LOT shorter than I expected, and there's references within it to the protagonist's family and allusions to other things that have happened within the family, yet I checked and there does not appear to be a prequel or other books in the "series". Soooo... yeah. Over too soon, and not in the good way. More like in the "oh yeah, yeah baby, ooooh right there, oh god ye... what do you mean you've finished and you're going to go to sleep now?" way.
* Fool by Christopher Moore (24)
Rather a lot of swearing, and that comes from the woman who swears like a sailor. I don't fully know how I feel about this one; I generally like the concept of "familiar stories told from someone else's point of view" but this one was difficult to get engrossed in.
* Lady Susan by Jane Austen (25)
Did you know that they had anti-heroes in classical romance literature? Neither did I. I can't call this book "good" because I couldn't find a single character I could feel any real connection with, but it is well-written.
