I admit it, I´m a sucker for this thing....you´re very welcome to skip it, but since little_tristan said that I like books and meme´s, I HAD to do this one:
I love reading too. I never lend my books to anyone who doesn't treat them with the same respect I do, and I have never written in a book (unless it was a notebook *g*).
I'm a huge John Irving fan, but I hated A Widow For One Year. If it'd been the first I read of his, it would've been the last. (I didn't love A Prayer for Owen Meany, but it was oddly compelling.)
#52 sounds like A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. Very unpleasant reading.
And go you for #55. I don't get this guilty pleasure thing. Read proud, Schwester Maus!
I didn´t really exactly hate it, but it went slowly, just a few pages at a time, usually I´m a very fast reader. I only read Hotel New Hampshire by Irving, and when I started Widow for one year, I didn´t realise the author, I found it in a box, and since it didn´t appall me too much, I just thought I´ll read it. Though I gotta admit that I love one sentence, one quote and the poem in it very much.
#52 That´s IT! You´re so amazing! It made me so mad! And sad.
It's been so long, I forget what it was about Widow that I disliked so much. I just know that it's the only one of his books that I bought and didn't keep. The World According to Garp is probably my favorite.
My step-daughter had a real thing about #52. I had a copy and it was the only book in the house she'd read. She had a fairly average unhappy childhood with her mom, but she wanted people to think it was more like the book.
I think #55 is implies that there are guilty pleasures as well as guilt-free ones. That bothers me, since I don't think we should feel guilty about reading anything. Probably I'm reading too much into it. :)
Garp is by Irving, too? I never got over the first ten pages. Maybe it´s still somewhere in the back of my bookshelfs....but I don´t think I´ll ever really read it. Nah, looks like I´m not made to read that kind of books. I´d rather read the "low level" or whatever thei´re called literature like The Hitchhiker´s guide and HP...*g* Though I love Terry Pratchet for his allusions
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But you WRITE books! *adore*
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#52 sounds like A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. Very unpleasant reading.
And go you for #55. I don't get this guilty pleasure thing. Read proud, Schwester Maus!
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#52 That´s IT! You´re so amazing! It made me so mad! And sad.
Maybe I didn´t really get the meaning of #55?
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My step-daughter had a real thing about #52. I had a copy and it was the only book in the house she'd read. She had a fairly average unhappy childhood with her mom, but she wanted people to think it was more like the book.
I think #55 is implies that there are guilty pleasures as well as guilt-free ones. That bothers me, since I don't think we should feel guilty about reading anything. Probably I'm reading too much into it. :)
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