The Memory Keepter's Daughter. Nope. Don't get it.

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Just finished it and baffled by its success. Interesting premise but so drearily written. Poor characterisation. Don't get it at all. What's the appeal?

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The 's

The Ineptitude Of Modern Fiction
The Tedium Of Richard And Judy
The Genius Of Austen

The Checkout Girl's Sexlife
The Headteacher's Piles
The Barrister's Shopping List

Etc

The Witchfinder's Chiropodist

The Puffin-Frotter of Pimlico

yes it was shite. heaven preserve us from a film version

the accountant of slough
the binman's great aunt

JANEITE!!!! I have a thread going for you about Max Tivoli

I replied! Have you changed your name?

I only thought to look to see if you had replied after I yelled . yup, random name changing.

Now you see I reckon the Mayor of Casterbridge has a certain ring to it Might work...

Horrible waste of time. Senseless drivel.

"She listened to the snow fall" - how?!?!

Nah - Mayor Of Casterbridge sounds dreadful!!!

There's another type of Richard and Judy endorsed title. You take two atmospheric sounding nouns and stick them together. The result:

Shadow of the Wind
Dream of the Moon
Star of the Sea

Which one is made up?

i like shadow of the wind!!

Scent of a sock.

I thought it was OK -nothing more tahn that though.

I didnt get it either. It stayed on the bookshop shelf.

Twas shit.
I found it very hard to be sympathetic towards the main character when she'd stolen another woman's child. All the characters were pretty unsympathetic really.
TTW much better.

The thing that concerns me most is, why is so much of this shit published? In germany, I usually only see the uk best sellers, and at least half of them are this sort of chattering classes, arty-farty, smart-arse crap.

I have moaned about this before. Is there a genuine shortage of good reads, or do publishers push this sort of shite because they themselves are arty-farty, smart-arse members of the chattering classes, so they think its wonderful?

but to go back to the actual point of the thread...MKD not so much, bit meh really. ok, but im not leaping around and dying to read it again or passing it to my friends.

TTW - OMG am in 2 minds whether to see the film as i loved the book so much.

and while we're here - shadow of the wind - fab fab fab - am waiting for the library to get in thingummy who wrote its latest

there was a debate on this a while ago i think (bearing in mind a while to me is anything in the last 4 years ...

i think personally that there is a lot of "fashionable" reading that goes on ie hands up who has read the latest richard and judy recommendation - "ooh me me me"

who has read barchester towers? tumbleweed

did anyone see that 50 best books list thing in the times the other week? dh and i are pretty edjumacated between us - he had read 11/50. i had read 19. i think that is pretty telling really. how many people have even heard of graham greene, muriel sparke etc (and i don't mean on mn i mean in rl) but EVERYONE has heard of jordan...

Although I hated the book, I can see that it and others like it are cleverly targetted. They're sort of made up of interesting ideas, aimed securely at women. Not embarrassing to be seen reading and they have a sort of competent but unexciting prose style.

But thats just it. Im fed up with "interesting" ideas. I just think, hey ho, yawn, yawn, another book that tries to disguise lack of writing talent with "interesting" gimmicky ideas.

Dostoevsky didnt need to make his characters travel in time. Jane Austen didnt need gimmicks.

Lol - sounds like a t-shirt slogan: Jane Austen didn't need gimmicks - love it!

I got quite angry with this book,having a LD child.