Comments on: best books – fiction

By: posteret

posteret — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:40:40 +0000

Great list – there are a few I’ve read, a few I want to read and some I hadn’t even considered. I feel a trip to a bookshop coming on…

By: bmepain

bmepain — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:18:48 +0000

Greets! Really amazing. Big ups!

By: boblet

boblet — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:28:34 +0000

I like it when people disagree with me! You are right, it is not really a fairytale, not really a metaphor, but I cannot find the right word for it. It is about faith (but not nearly as much as the blurb says), but also about nitty-gritty survival, and about animals and human/animal behaviour. I think maybe it is a “fantastic story”, meaning nothing to do with fantasy. Would that be better? Hm… I may have to change my note on it, yes.

Thank you for dropping by, and thank you for the compliment on my blog.

By: tone

tone — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:29:24 +0000

Life of Pi is an absolute classic; it will make you question the so much about this world. I do object to your classification of it as fairytale/ metaphor. I’m not saying I think it’s a provable factual acount, just that it’s presented as the true experience of one individual.

Really like this blog by the way, and I don’t usually like blogs!

By: boblet

boblet — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:59:02 +0000

Thanks for stopping by.
Yes – The shipping news is great. The story seems such a simple one, but trying to summarise it, it turns out quite complex. I like the very economical language; the bare-bone way of writing. It works well with the story and the landscape.

The trial is actually funny, in a morbid, cynical way. I think it is a book to be read in your own good time – not a book for school, that one!

I’d highly reccomend The poisonwood bible, though. It is multilayered, informative, harsh, exciting, dramatic, historical and poetic. I know it is in danger of beeing seen as a chick-book, as the five voices are all female, but it is not at all.

By: The Eighth Art

The Eighth Art — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:39:47 +0000

The Shipping News was a great book. I was two-thirds through the book and it suddenly hit me: I really care about these characters. It wasn’t until the end of the book that I realized how thoroughly I was invested in the story.

The Trial was one I didn’t get around to until well after college. Wow, I am so glad to have read it. Reading it is such a frustrating experience. But in a good way.