In the spirit of Netflix reviews and Yelp reviews, I will base my very highly touted opinion on a numbering system of 1 to 5.rks? Give them some sort of numeric value so that when people go through and read their reviews, they don’t have to waste their time reading the whole thing. There’s just a number they can reference.
5: Awesome, amazing, life changing read that I will read over and over again. Very few books will or have reached this pinnacle of perfection. Some past reads that have garnered 5 coveted stars from me include the Harry Potter series (all 7 books I have read or listened to on audiobook format numerous times), Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky, and Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon K
4: Awesome, amazing, exciting reads that I probably won’t bother reading again, but loved nonetheless.rakauer. If you haven’t read any of them, I highly recommend each and everyone.
3: Entertaining, had its moments, but all in all just an average book
2: Really, I wasted my time on this?
1: Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to print a piece of garbage like this.
There is will be no zero ratings, because there had to be some sort of redeeming value to the book that caught my attention enough to try and read it. If it was the cover that caught my eye, kudos to the designer. If the blurb on the back made it sound spectacular, kudos to the marketing department. If a friend recommended it, I need a new friend.
My first official grade for on this blog will be for Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, the second book in
the “Song of Ice and Fire” series. Drum roll please . . .4!
It was great, highly entertaining, one of a kind yarn. But whether it has to do with the length of the book (1040 pages!) or the fact its part of a long on going series, I don’t see myself reading it again in the future.
The unfortunate drawback in my life at the moment is that all my books are currently in boxes in the garages. A few have made their way inside, mostly mass market paperbacks and others that I have bought in the past few months since the move out of San Francisco. Monday morning, I was perusing my small shelf next to the front door and grabbed a copy of Carrie. I have seen the movie; I know the story, as do most of you. But I have never read the book. As we all know, books are always better than the movies. What I have discovered lately is that sometimes I find that watching a movie before reading the book makes the experience better. I know, it sounds a bit weird, but bear with me.
I recently read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series. I saw the Swedish versions and recently saw the David Fincher version. I found myself slightly disappointed with each version, because I started picking out things that they left out. Pivotal plot points just gone.
On the flip side, I remember not reading any of the Harry Potter series until the seventh book was released. Only then did I sit down and read each and every book back to back. I had seen the movies and found that I loved the books because the limited world I was introduced to in the movies opened up and seemed to become this living, breathing world. For those who had read the Harry Potter books before the movies, they always seemed to have the same complaints – they left this or that out. How could they leave that character out? How are they going to explain that in the later movies if they don’t at least touch on it now?
So Monday morning, I embarked on Carrie. I am nearly done with it already. It’s a short quick read, and the scary creepiness you see in the movie is multiplied ten fold because you actually see Carrie’s thought processes as she reacts to multiple events, including the infamous shower scene that starts the books.
So that’s it for now .
Have a lovely evening, good reader. I’ll see you next time
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