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Post by adcooper on Jul 5, 2010 13:49:54 GMT -5
I've started reading this new Barbara Kingsolver book. Slow going for me at first, but now the narrator is winning my affection. He's funny in his own, peculiar way. Anyone else reading this one?
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Post by elizabeth_h on Jul 6, 2010 7:05:41 GMT -5
I read it over the winter. I liked it, though I found some parts a bit slow. Not as good as my all-time fave Poisonwood Bible.
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Post by adcooper on Jul 6, 2010 12:44:06 GMT -5
Well, Poisonwood is tough to beat. That was one amazing novel.
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Post by elizabeth_h on Jul 6, 2010 13:05:30 GMT -5
Well, Poisonwood is tough to beat. That was one amazing novel. True! It is hard to follow up something like that. This book was so different though, in subject matter and characters...I was hoping it would enthrall me like P.B. did so I was a touch disappointed (though bits of it did grab me in the same way). |
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Post by adcooper on Jul 10, 2010 19:12:28 GMT -5
I'm about half through the book, Elizabeth. Exactly as you say, "bits of it" are wonderful, but I'm not completely taken with it. Must read on, though. My daughter loved it and insists that I owe her a LOT of shared books, since I made her read Edgar Sawtelle last year and ruined her life. Sigh....
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Post by niaru on Jul 11, 2010 4:23:13 GMT -5
The Poisonwood Bible is one of my favorite books of all times. It's the first one I read from B. Kingsolver and after reading it, every one of her other novels were so-so to me. *sigh*
Which is why I haven't read the Lacuna yet, fearing I'd be disappointed yet again.
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Post by Bara on Jul 21, 2010 23:29:03 GMT -5
Yes, Poisonwood is one of those 'forever' books. But nothing ventured - thanks, I'll order The Lacuna.
Ann!! How did Sawtelle have such an adverse effect? Odd, I know ..
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