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[fpb]

Wow. My book meme entry has gone completely ballistic. Who would have said that to say which books I like or not would have caused so much reaction?

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

lol!

If you're going to ding popular books with NO WAY, of course you've got to expect a reaction! *g*

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, I had already dive-bombed both Dan Brown and Philip Pullman, though perhaps more long ago than you and I have been friends. As for Attwood, you did not seriously expect me to like that particular book, did you?

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

No--and probably for a lot of the same reasons I can't stand it. (Same with Pullman and Brown.)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=544

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have gone to see that on a bet.

But then I found the novel so awful I couldn't finish it. Not like there was anything new, or insightful in it.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is that two very fine people on my f-list placed it next to William Golding, which I frankly could not see. Lord of the Flies is a terrible story, but it is a terrible story about something true.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to argue about how people connect up books in their minds--waste of time. But I wouldn't have put those two together, one a didactic hammer, and the other a subtle, horrifying examination of just how far down the morality of civilization goes in (the education of) the young male.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Agreed, of course.