The scores on the door
The aforementioned Leaf Blowers have now read 10 titles since we formed so we did a very quick score out of 5 for each of the titles. I think the scoring took less time than it took us to remember what all ten were and considerably less time than it has taken me to get all the titles and authors names right (am now worried that I won't have). For want of a better way to do this I'm giving each one stars with 5 stars as the top possible result. So, the scores on the door to date are:
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys ***
City of the Beasts, Isabelle Allende **
Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flannigan ****
The Dumas Club, Arturo Perez-Reverte **
Death and the Penguin, Andre Kurkov ***
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell *****
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens ***
The Kite Runner, Khalid Hosseimi ***
The Good Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek ****
Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel **
The widest variance in scoring was on The Kite Runner and Cloud Atlas was universally applauded.
1 comment:
Can I comment? Not a member but happy sticking my nose in...
Cloud atlas I loved - so different; want a whole book on several of the characters - though not the grumpy old publishing agent or the (unremarkable) girl journalist/cop's daughter - and thought the Dumas club was shite on a stick. We were given it as a travelling present and took it to S.America; bizarrely enough we both read it in sequence with
F*!&*£'s Pendulum...which may be why it lingers in my memory as so VERY bad. I do remember it as the book which claimed that 'modern' paper decomposes after 70 years and so it is pointless collecting books published after the 1930s.
Now I've wittered so much that I can't remember any of the other books on the list. I'll come back to this another time perhaps.
Speak soon,
S
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