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- The Spoiler (2)
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By Annalena McAfee -
Abandoned on Jul 15, 2012
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- The Finkler Question (118)
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By Howard Jacobson -
Abandoned on Dec 4, 2010 
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- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (156)
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By David Mitchell -
Started on Aug 15, 2010
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- Then We Came to the End (218)
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By Joshua Ferris -
Abandoned on May 20, 2010
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so what?
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why read about what is dull? working in cubicles, loosing your job... just couldn't get through this one...
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May 23, 2010 |
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- So Much for That (23)
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By Lionel Shriver -
Abandoned on May 7, 2010
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just too depressing book 2
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Lionel Shriver has a way with words - her works are dense and intense and you live the situation with the protagonist. I adored We need to talk about Kevin and the Post Birthday World (even though partially about the world of snooker). Here we are in the world of: everything goes wrong and life stin ... (
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May 8, 2010 |
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- Solar (787)
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By Ian McEwan -
Abandoned on May 4, 2010
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1 person find this helpful
just too depressing (book 1) -
who cares? A guy gets a nobel at 28 and then squanders his life for the next 25 years - marries 5 times, drinks too much - is full of himself. An interesting subject for a book...no. Loved Amsterdam and On Chesnil Beach so I will try him again, another time...
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May 8, 2010 |
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- Au bonheur des ogres (480)
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By Daniel Pennac -
Abandoned on Apr 11, 2010
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1 person find this helpful
grating voice -
I now realize this is at least the second time I have tried to get through this book. The voice is whiney, who's voice - the scapegoat - an actual professional scapegoat in a department store who happens to be pretty much in the wrong place at the wrong time - when the bombs go off. One of the top w ... (
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Apr 20, 2010 |
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- Lit (11)
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By Mary Karr -
Abandoned on Mar 9, 2010
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- Trois femmes puissantes (68)
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By Marie NDiaye -
Started on Nov 8, 2009
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beautiful style but like eating a truffle - very rich and slow...
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couldn't finish - wanted to but just too slow. Writng is elegant and beautiful but pace is hard to take. First story is very strong - father/daughter power issues, second more difficult. I abandonned but may go back (on vacation or when I retire...)
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Mar 9, 2010 |
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- Shanghai Girls (71)
- A Novel
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By Lisa See -
Started on Oct 7, 2009
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1 person find this helpful
once we were rich and then we were not -
Shanghai girls starts in the hey day of Shanghai, and two beautiful girls have the good life. Then the Japanese invade and it is all over. Oh, and Dad loses all their money, and sells them to American chinese and...... Frankly it felt like i was reading a tv movie of the week. Frankly no interest. I ... (
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Oct 15, 2009 |
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- Special Topics in Calamity Physics (141)
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By Marisha Pessl -
Abandoned on Nov 20, 2009
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
I'm too old -
Language is prickly, story unrolls but the truth is I'm just not interested in high school kids (except my own)...
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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- The Invisible Circus (22)
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By Jennifer Egan -
Started on Sep 2, 2009
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flower child wannabe1 person find this helpful -
I loved Jennifer Egan's other books so I grabbed this one which is her first. Story is just not engaging - younger sister trying to deal with older sister flower child's untimely death, father issues, blah blah. Skip and read her other books...
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Sep 3, 2009 |
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- This Wicked World (1)
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By Richard Lange -
Started on Jul 24, 2009
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dark but daring -
good story about a guy that just can't leave trouble alone -- but I just got tired of that world...
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Aug 10, 2009 |
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- Lutetia. (10)
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By Pierre Assouline -
Abandoned
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who cares who is in the lobby? -
I so loved "double vie" that I immediately started reading lutecia. What a disappointment - though maybe I didn't give it enough time - 100 pages and I had had it. Never got off ground floor for me...
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Jul 8, 2009 |
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- Digging to America (90)
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By Anne Tyler -
Started on Feb 20, 2009
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a bore
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subject is great - two families adopt Korean kids at the same time and then...stay in touch. but after that, so what? no interest whatsoever. Dissapointing. Hadn't read Anne Tyler in a long time probably won't try again
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Feb 23, 2009 |
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Diane Hedary
The Finkler Question
A great start but the kwetching gets you in the end. I loved it, and then hated it - after a while I just couldn't deal with the whining. So I abandoned...but parts are very funny - whole premise is great - three men, 2 Jewish, one not - and who is the stereotypical jew? the goy!!