tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post5983193943830884315..comments2023-10-14T09:40:06.690-05:00Comments on Jean Kazez: Grumble, GrumbleJean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-92044016967405546262010-09-24T16:34:15.436-05:002010-09-24T16:34:15.436-05:00Dom, Well, I tried to blame you, but I just couldn...Dom, Well, I tried to blame you, but I just couldn't manage it. Surely it's not your fault that I can't tell the difference between "Verghese" and "Gawande"!!<br /><br />It drove me crazy that the birth was broken up with all those innumerable asides--I felt manipulated. But perhaps I should persevere. I actually liked all the medical details.<br /><br />I decidedJean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-8056855134461748602010-09-24T15:14:51.028-05:002010-09-24T15:14:51.028-05:00Jean,
I'm sorry you didn't enjoy Cutting ...Jean,<br /><br />I'm sorry you didn't enjoy Cutting for Stone - especially since I feel slightly responsible for encouraging you to read it (I recommended Gawande).<br /><br />I have just recently finished reading CfS - and loved it. I agree that the start isn't great, but it really does become fascinating and engrossing (or it did for me anyway). It has a particular richness for Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11482806268276089591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-21862165752479995302010-09-20T18:27:50.802-05:002010-09-20T18:27:50.802-05:00Thanks for all the suggestions--next stop, Amazon,...Thanks for all the suggestions--next stop, Amazon, to look up some of these people.<br /><br />The last anonymous, Sadly I've read all of those books:-)Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-11587352303296158382010-09-20T17:42:29.767-05:002010-09-20T17:42:29.767-05:00If you like books set in India have you read "...If you like books set in India have you read "God of Small things" by Arundhati Roy? I quite enjoyed it.<br /><br />Also, I imagine you've read Jonathan Safran Foer's "Eating Animals" but, if you're looking for fiction he has also written some great novels. I loved both "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-17042038153102751462010-09-20T12:23:10.254-05:002010-09-20T12:23:10.254-05:00Thumbs up for "The Savage Detectives," t...Thumbs up for "The Savage Detectives," thumbs down for "Human Traces" -- easily Faulks' most tedious novel. Just finished Gail Hareven's "Confessions of Noa Weber" a book about an Israeli feminist mystery writer who has a 30-year unrequited love for a Russian immigrant. Sounds awful, I know, but it isn't at all.Gerard Stockernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-38952410489286281872010-09-19T23:32:57.377-05:002010-09-19T23:32:57.377-05:00from 1908 The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Be...from 1908 The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett a masterpiece available on GutenbergAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-1408558213336326342010-09-19T21:51:22.613-05:002010-09-19T21:51:22.613-05:00A friend recommended Human Traces by Sebastian Fau...A friend recommended Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks, which has lots of glowing reviews. I ploughed through 230 pages out of 600+ before I did what I rarely do: gave up. It's very Masterpiece Theatre, and/but with little tension to drive the plot, and rather pedestrian writing.<br /><br />Have you tried Robert Harris's political/historical thrillers?Aeolushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15772583359516799143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-73740812600045051522010-09-19T20:57:33.502-05:002010-09-19T20:57:33.502-05:00I don't read much fiction myself and then basi...I don't read much fiction myself and then basically classics. The last amazing work I read was Kafka's The Castle: AAA. <br /><br /><br />I like John LeCarré and I read The Honorable Schoolboy, which is not his best work. The formulae which work in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy don't work<br />the second-time around. <br /><br /><br />I finally got around to reading s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-52973400609569529122010-09-19T20:25:10.422-05:002010-09-19T20:25:10.422-05:00Blidsight by Peter Watts is the best fiction I'...Blidsight by Peter Watts is the best fiction I've read lately. But I rarely read fiction, and then only science fiction. <br /><br />Actually I guess I did just read Johnson's Rasselas (amazing piece of work, amazing), but that's not fiction. Not really.Faustnoreply@blogger.com