tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6605375076338275873.post5077042897687179348..comments2024-01-18T00:17:04.046-08:00Comments on thebooksage: Recap Of Prior 121 Blogs - Part 1The Book Sagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07967030844980297039noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6605375076338275873.post-20602597372720842282012-11-26T10:39:58.101-08:002012-11-26T10:39:58.101-08:00It worked! Nice going.It worked! Nice going.The Book Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07967030844980297039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6605375076338275873.post-51653050004688955112012-11-26T10:14:53.891-08:002012-11-26T10:14:53.891-08:00I keep trying to make comments, but haven't su...I keep trying to make comments, but haven't succeeded yet. Here's another try, about three blogs.<br /><br />First, I really wanted to like The Night Circus. It had a good premise, and a great opening sentence and paragraph. I wanted it to be an epic battle between good and evil, youth and age, unicorns and dragons (I ran out of comparisons), but it turned out to be a contest between old jaded soulless magicians who used children as surrogates in a fight to the death. It was just disappointing and tawdry, and colored what I might have liked about the book.<br /><br />Second, Barbara Kingsolver. About damn time Lloyd. She is a national treasure. The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, Animal Dreams, Prodigal Summer -- you can't go wrong. Though I am the only one I know who liked Animal Dreams more than Pigs in Heaven. Go figure.<br /><br />Third, Raymond Chandler. I loved the Philip Marlowe mysteries when I first read them in the '60s and '70s. Hard boiled detective fiction, great writing, twisted plots that I sometimes didn't get even after I finished. But I have to admit that they don't travel well -- I tried again a couple of years ago and couldn't continue reading. There are some books that can't be re-read -- that was going to be the title of my guest blog before I decided to do something different.<br /><br />Let's see if this comment makes it.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01734606196142906267noreply@blogger.com