books
"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" was pretty good. Readable. I can see the appeal of mysteries/detective stories. But am pretty sure at least one crucial clue didn't come up until the last few chapters, and until that was revealed, it could still have been a number of suspects. Mysteries also make me feel lazy for not putting the data into a spreadsheet and making it clear in my head and actually trying to work out who the killer was, rather than just reading to find out. Luckily am inured to own laziness and will probably read the Sayers on the 1001 list too (if I find them at a library).
Also finished "Slaughterhouse 5" on the bus this morning. Also very readable and a quick read. Liked it quite a lot. Didn't really have any expectations, so the trippiness was cool. I feel like I should write more about classics like this - what I liked, what I didn't, what I thought, etc., but I also quite liked coming at it without preconceptions and feel like I should propagate that. Of course could review properly and hide behind cut. But am also lazy (see above).
[Update: Also, if any of you missed this, Google's "Download The Classics" is now up and running. Wonder what overlap with Gutenberg is?]
[Update-to-update: The out-of-copyright and actually-pdf'd-downloadable books are unpleasantly mixed in with ones to buy. Not even all the links on the Googleblog page linked above go somewhere you can download a pdf. E.g "Aesop's Fables" and Abbott's "Flatland", did I miss a further link or something? Anyway, a bit disappointing. And can't see how to browse them yet (if indeed you can) - may stick with gutenberg.org for a bit]
Also finished "Slaughterhouse 5" on the bus this morning. Also very readable and a quick read. Liked it quite a lot. Didn't really have any expectations, so the trippiness was cool. I feel like I should write more about classics like this - what I liked, what I didn't, what I thought, etc., but I also quite liked coming at it without preconceptions and feel like I should propagate that. Of course could review properly and hide behind cut. But am also lazy (see above).
[Update: Also, if any of you missed this, Google's "Download The Classics" is now up and running. Wonder what overlap with Gutenberg is?]
[Update-to-update: The out-of-copyright and actually-pdf'd-downloadable books are unpleasantly mixed in with ones to buy. Not even all the links on the Googleblog page linked above go somewhere you can download a pdf. E.g "Aesop's Fables" and Abbott's "Flatland", did I miss a further link or something? Anyway, a bit disappointing. And can't see how to browse them yet (if indeed you can) - may stick with gutenberg.org for a bit]