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1_Zoe_
Feb 26, 2011, 11:25 am

If you've listed a TBR book on the Suggestions Wiki and then deleted it after reading it, please list the book here.

2fundevogel
Abr 5, 2011, 7:03 pm

I'm thinking about deleting The Last Speakers (408) from the wiki. It's readable but seriously underwhelming. As such I'm not quite sure if it should go or just get a caveat in the comments since it is in one of those difficult sections.

3_Zoe_
Abr 5, 2011, 7:34 pm

I'd lean toward leaving it on with a warning since there are currently no other books in the category, but I don't feel strongly about it either way.

4lorax
Abr 6, 2011, 9:41 am

Oh no! The Last Speakers is next in my queue, and I'd been looking forward to it! (At any rate, fundevogel, I'd agree with _Zoe_ for now; if I disagree with your opinion of the book, I'll add my own comment when I'm finished.)

5fundevogel
Editado: Abr 6, 2011, 2:54 pm

Caveat it is (for now).

But lorax, if this is a subject you're interested in I'd look around and see if there are alternate books on the subject. This one was just painfully shallow compared to something like the Power of Babel. It's really not meant for people that know anything about linguistics. At its core it's really just a language themed travelogue.

6lorax
Abr 6, 2011, 3:07 pm

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I already have the book.

7fundevogel
Abr 6, 2011, 8:47 pm

Ah well, I await your thoughts on it then.

8carlym
Feb 25, 2012, 9:46 am

I took Magnificent Corpses out of 235. It's a travelogue about religious relics. I'm Christian but not Catholic, and relics have no religious significance for me. I am fascinated by them, though, so I was looking forward to this book. Unfortunately the author's attitude really put me off. She didn't write like someone who was interested in this topic and wanted to make a tour of these places and see what curious things she could find--she wrote about the relics, the places they are stored (like the Dom in Cologne), and the regular non-religious tourists visiting these sights as though they were all dumb and ridiculous. A good contrast is Mary Roach's Spook--she doesn't believe all the psychic types but still writes about them in an engaging and humorous, not mean, way.