Comments on: Doomsday Book, Connie Willis https://readingtheend.com/2008/02/27/doomsday-book-connie-willis/ before I read the middle Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:05:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Gillian https://readingtheend.com/2008/02/27/doomsday-book-connie-willis/#comment-14657 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:05:35 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=59#comment-14657 In reply to Jenny.

Jerome is really not a big part of the book at all. He (and the rest of his crew from Three Men in a Boat) show up for about half a page, and Ned, the main character, references the book a few times because it’s basically all he knows about certain aspects of life in Victorian times. I think even if you really dislike poor Jerome, you should have no trouble enjoying this one! (Why is he your life enemy, may I ask?)

This library doesn’t have a good ILL system, no. Our one back home (before I moved for grad school) was fabulous and I am now spoiled, probably for life!

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2008/02/27/doomsday-book-connie-willis/#comment-14656 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:15:29 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=59#comment-14656 In reply to Gillian.

I am worried about reading To Say Nothing of the Dog because Jerome K Jerome is slightly my enemy. I am afraid it will just make me cross because of how Jerome K Jerome is my life enemy. Is he a big part of the book?

Does your library do interlibrary loans? My old one did, it took me ages and ages to find out, and it was really easy and fast.

]]> By: Gillian https://readingtheend.com/2008/02/27/doomsday-book-connie-willis/#comment-14655 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:46:45 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=59#comment-14655 Oh, I love this book! I’m so sad you didn’t. I think maybe it works a little better if you’ve read “To Say Nothing of the Dog” first – same basic Oxford-in-the-future, with a few of the same characters, but further in the future than Doomsday book is set. But TSNotD was written first and I think is a better introduction to Willis’s world.

Btw. Just found your blog and have been avidly reading reviews. My library list just got a mile long and I’m beginning to be really sorry that the local library is much stronger on bodice-rippers than on anything decent.

]]> By: Trapunto https://readingtheend.com/2008/02/27/doomsday-book-connie-willis/#comment-14654 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:16:02 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=59#comment-14654 Okay, the reason I didn’t remember you not liking this book was because you reviewed it before I found your blog!

I couldn’t finish it. Stalled out completely with two of her books–very rare for me, when I’m determined, and I was: stubbornly determined to see what this lady was going to do with this good idea she had appropriated and *used up* the originality of. You have more discipline.

]]> By: Review: Blackout, Connie Willis « Jenny's Books https://readingtheend.com/2008/02/27/doomsday-book-connie-willis/#comment-14653 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:59:22 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=59#comment-14653 […] who practice their historianship by going time traveling in their period of interest. I read The Doomsday Book a while ago, and did not care for it because I was bored by the characters, and I hate the Black […]

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