I'm currently 43 min into a novel by Tom Sharpe called Ancestral Vices, and bloody hell, is that man trying too hard to be witty! I suppose it's such a personal thing, humour.
My support worker (carer, basically) is reading Earthsea for the first time. I hated the fourth book, I have to say. She wrote it, what is it, several decades after the first three, and I find the change in style is too great and it just doesn't work. But then, most people agree that Le Guin's work is very mixed, although which bits you love and which bits you hate varies enormously.
The selection isn't great, I know, and the categorisation is beyond a joke. Still, it's a fantastic service they're providing, doubtless on minimal funding, and they've not been at it very long.
Emma Brown does look intriguing, I've added it to my bookshelf.
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Date: Tuesday, 9 September 2008 03:03 pm (UTC)From:My support worker (carer, basically) is reading Earthsea for the first time. I hated the fourth book, I have to say. She wrote it, what is it, several decades after the first three, and I find the change in style is too great and it just doesn't work. But then, most people agree that Le Guin's work is very mixed, although which bits you love and which bits you hate varies enormously.
The selection isn't great, I know, and the categorisation is beyond a joke. Still, it's a fantastic service they're providing, doubtless on minimal funding, and they've not been at it very long.
Emma Brown does look intriguing, I've added it to my bookshelf.