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Posted by karalk (My Page) on Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 18:11
| You know those books in your TBR pile that you keep skipping over, for months, maybe years? Well I decided to tackle them. They all bombed. Which makes me think its me not them! Is there any reason I should give these clunkers another chance?
Moon Pies and Movie Stars by Amy Wallen.... The Master's Quilt by Michael Webb....The Flood by Ian Rankin.... Green Darkness by Anya Seton.... The Smoke by Tony Broadbent.... The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry... and ...Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry.
At least I've opened up space to buy more books!
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| I love Green Darkness and enjoyed The Smoke. |
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| The Flood was interesting to read as a book discussion; Jayber Crow is worth your time, I think. |
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| I loved Green Darkness too. I have a hardback on my bookshelf. |
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| I have a bookcase stacked with TBR, I have decided to tackle these in the coming weeks. It should not take me long as if a book does not grab early into it I pass on to my little village library. It means staying away from my local municipal library until these books thin out. |
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| Ah yes--those TBR. Trouble is, I always see a review of new books that I simply must read, and my TBR shelves just get more loaded. |
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| For what it is worth, I would disagree with those above that urge a second chance for a book they loved. If you gave each a real try- 50 pages or so-I would say move on. Sometimes the time, the reader, and the book just don't match up. Might you miss something? Sure. But pleasure reading shouldn't be a slog. We will all miss great books in our time-such is life. |
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| I thought "Green Darkness" was wonderful and I would read it again. I agree with cece, however. Life is too short to not move on if the reading does not give pleasure. I had "All Over But the Shouting" by Rick Bragg sitting on my TBR pile, picked up for a buck or so. Read the first chapter and was clued in that this was just another southern novel of a dysfunctional family. Yesterday it was donated unread to the bookshop in my public library. |
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Ok, I gave them all another look and I can't do it. Too many others calling to me from the shelf!
Green Darkness I may keep for a few months and go back to it but the others are off to the swap club! |
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| LOL! there may be a reason those books remain sitting on the TBR shelf (shelves?). I really enjoyed The Last Picture Show but i've got to say that most of Wendell Berry's stuff just makes me Zzzzzzzz. |
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| Although I like Anya Seton, I thought that Green Darkness was not one of her better books. I'd try Katherine or Avalon for good historical fiction, or even Dragonwyck, her take on the then-current rage for the gothic romance genre, a much better than typical effort. Rosefolly |
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| Karalk, It's been over two weeks since you started this thread. I just have to know how you are doing with the TBR! Update us! PAM |
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| I have found the secret to getting thru my TBRS' I just started to read them, I discarded about four on the first day. If they do not grab me in the first chapter, out they go for recycling.At this rate I will be on top within the next few weeks. (If I stay away from the local library). |
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| I've not read the others, but I find Ian Rankin takes a couple of chapters to get going - I normally find them worth hanging in for. I'm like that with Robin Cook's "Foreign Body" - I just can't get in to it, and I normally like his stuff. And I've got several on my e-book that are TBR - but I keep adding other stuff I really want to read so the TBR's kind of linger there, silently mocking my inability to tackle them. :) |
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| I think that whenever one starts a book with preconceived notions, there is a pretty good chance that one has set oneself up for failure. Of course we know a bit about almost all of the books we read - they have been recommended here at RP, by a friend, a good book review, etc. But when one has kept a book for some time, well, all that gets multiplied. And one may have forgotten why the book was appealing in the first place, or one may be at a very different place in one's life. One may have had experiences that change the type of book one enjoys. I think you get the idea. I think TBR lists should be something like clothing - if you haven't touched it in a year, give it away. Incidentally, I loved a couple of the books on your TBR shelf, but that was me and that was then. |
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| I agree with what Siobahn said - sometimes a book strikes "where you are" when you see it or hear about it. Two years later...we have traveled on from that place. |
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