simple_kind's 2016 TBR Challenge

CharlasTBR Challenge

Únete a LibraryThing para publicar.

simple_kind's 2016 TBR Challenge

Este tema está marcado actualmente como "inactivo"—el último mensaje es de hace más de 90 días. Puedes reactivarlo escribiendo una respuesta.

2simple_kind
Editado: Dic 17, 2015, 9:44 pm

Still in progress (obviously) but I should have all twelve up soon and my alternate list as well. I'm excited to finally had a push to clear through my TBR bookshelf (yes I do have a bookshelf dedicated just to TBR).

3Narilka
Dic 18, 2015, 10:42 am

I like Scott Westerfeld and haven't heard of that one. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on So Yesterday. Jurassic Park is awesome.

4Cecrow
Editado: Dic 18, 2015, 11:36 am

I've read Wicked and Maguire didn't overly impress me, but a lot of people seem to like him. I saw the movie Gone Girl and left it at that ... I'm starting to sound grumpy/lazy .... Ishiguro I'd like to sample sometime, haven't tried him yet. Emma is one of the few of Austen's I've read and I was impressed. I also liked Dorian Gray, a good message in that one.

The Princess Bride was the opposite of Wicked - I loved it, but some people don't like the way it's presented. I've not read anything by Crichton but if it was good enough to inspire a popular movie there must be something to it; same with Larsson. Hugo is a big project but it's a great story. I read an abridged version, not sure what the full one is like to get through (no details in mine about the battle of Waterloo or the history of the Paris sewers).

Great that you found our group and decided to join us - the more the better!

5billiejean
Dic 21, 2015, 1:08 pm

I'm also reading Les Miserables in 2016. I couldn't get it read this year. Never Let Me Go is haunting. Definitely worth the read.

6simple_kind
Editado: Dic 24, 2015, 2:19 pm

>3 Narilka: My only experience with Scott Westerfeld is his series Uglies. Have you read those? I cannot wait to read Jurassic Park. I completely forgot that I had ever purchased it. I've recently found a few other Michael Crichton books as well. I'm hopeful I'll enjoy them all.

7simple_kind
Editado: Dic 24, 2015, 2:20 pm

>4 Cecrow: I haven't read Wicked but I have seen the play. I didn't know that was the same author till now. I might have to find a copy of it just to compare. I haven't read any Jane Austen I'm sad to admit. I have quite a few of her books but the closest I ever got was reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

As for Princess Bride? I'm not a fan of the movie but many of my friends love it. I thought I would try reading it to see if my view would change.

Thanks for the welcome! I'm excited to have more of a reason to read my TBR bookshelf instead of just buying more.

8Narilka
Dic 25, 2015, 9:18 pm

>6 simple_kind: I have read Uglies and really enjoyed it! I'm looking forward to picking up a copy of Zeros at some point too.

The play and book Wicked are nothing alike. I saw the play before reading the book and it was a shock at how vastly different they are. Basically I had to treat them as unrelated works that share character names so I could read the book.

9artturnerjr
Dic 26, 2015, 12:41 am

>1 simple_kind:

The Picture of Dorian Gray was one of my favorite reads of the last five years; Wilde is a wonderful, axiomatically witty writer that I hope to read more of in the future. Emma was my first (and, alas, to this date, only) Austen; it's more entertaining than a certified Great Book has any right to be. My copy of Jurassic Park is on its way out the door - I've had it around for too darn long without reading it to justify hanging onto it. A positive review from you just might change my mind, though.

Happy reading and happy holidays! :)

10.Monkey.
Dic 26, 2015, 8:18 am

>9 artturnerjr: I love Crichton's books, and it's way better than the movie, read it!

11artturnerjr
Dic 27, 2015, 8:27 am

>10 .Monkey.:

Okay, you've convinced me lol. It's just a mass market paperback, anyway - it's not like it's taking up a lot of space. :)

12.Monkey.
Dic 27, 2015, 8:52 am

:D

13simple_kind
Editado: Feb 6, 2016, 8:42 am

The first book Desert Crossing was about this girl, her brother, and her brother's friend who go on a road trip during spring break. While driving through a storm they hit something. The friend wants to keep going but the girl says to stop; what they find changes their lives.

The second book, The Plague, is a story of a look-a-like who is given the chance to help the princess by being her body double after her parents die of the plague. But as her, her brother, the princess, the prince and their guardsman travel to another country to wed the princess she dies of the plague as well. Then the prince asks the unthinkable...that she should pretend to be the princess and marry the foreign prince.

14simple_kind
Mar 11, 2016, 8:12 am

So Yesterday was this story about this kid who's job it is to find the next cool thing (usually by stealing it from an innovator) and helping mass-market it. His boss goes missing and it becomes this whole crazy mystery thing but that isn't really the interesting part. What makes you really think is about what truly is the next cool thing. I mean, who decides? Where does it come from? That part of the book makes you think about what it occurring in our lifetime.

15Cecrow
Editado: Mar 11, 2016, 10:00 am

>14 simple_kind:, that's an interesting theme. I'm not sure I could believe in a plot where a character can know what the next cool thing will be. It immediately made me think of the music industry. I've read there's absolutely no predictor for what will make one song "take off" versus another, it relies far more on shared perception across a culture rather than its actual content. Or these weird trends my kids are into, like, who imagined Shopkins and thought that was a good idea? But I guess it was, because look what happened.