Comments on: A discontented blog post about quite a quantity of books

By: Day of Tears, Julius Lester - Reading the End

Day of Tears, Julius Lester - Reading the End — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:06:38 +0000

[…] the perfect time to read some books you do not necessarily think are your thing. So I checked out The Forest of Hands and Teeth, The Thief, and Day of Tears. You win some, you lose […]

By: amo

amo — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 01:39:26 +0000

Thank you for the review of that Brian Boyd book on The Origin of Stories! I arrived over here from your post on Lüthi’s book, which links to this (I was googling Lüthi for research). Now I’m reading Boyd, and am utterly fascinated. I know I’m really late in the game here (this post is four years old, no?), but I just thought I’d mention it!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:59:15 +0000

In reply to Care. How come? Were you fearing you would be peer-pressured into reading it and you had no reason to refuse until now? :p P&P&Z looks a bit insubstantial for me, although the cover makes me smile.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:58:07 +0000

In reply to Christy. I was glad to see another disliking-it review soon after mine! I'm always afraid, when I don't like books that have been received with love and ardor all over the blogosphere, that I've just become curmudgeonly and anti-anything-that's-popular. :p

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:57:00 +0000

In reply to Shannon C.. If you don't like it, you can always list it on PaperbackSwap. As a non-zombie-hater, do you have any good zombie book recommendations? Where the zombies send shivers up your spine?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:55:24 +0000

In reply to Violet.

Ugh, I just realized I missed answering all these comments. I’m crap.

Thanks for the support for ordering Monsters of Men! I am still undecided – I don’t really like to have multiple copies of the same book, but I know it would drive me crazy if my copy of MoM didn’t match my copies of the other two in the series.

By: Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales, Max Luthi « Jenny's Books

Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales, Max Luthi « Jenny's Books — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:04:50 +0000

[…] instance, I have previously remarked upon stories that violate ontological boundaries. Fairy tales do this all the time, with […]

By: Care

Care — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:44:20 +0000

I cannot express how pleased I am to find out that The Forest of Hands and Teeth may not be my cup of tea. (I almost typed cup of brains but decided that wasn’t pleasant and I seek pleasantries today.) I actually wasn’t aware it was a zombie book; I’ve only read P&P&Z which I found slightly amusing.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:10:11 +0000

In reply to Nish. They are reanimated dead people, and traditionally? They want to eat brains. And they shamble around all the time with their parts rotting off. Ugh, too unpleasant a mental picture.

By: Nish

Nish — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:48:46 +0000

Zombies are not my thing either…just too many zombies floating around. What are they anyway?

Thanks for providing a list of books not to try 🙂