Saturday, January 5, 2008

a special topic

Well, the holidays left me with some time to read and thus I finished the book. Are we ready to share thoughts? One way I thought we could share thoughts if not everyone is done is put what page we have read up till at the top of our post or comment, especially if it might reveal any information that would spoil others' reading enjoyment. If you are just commenting about general things, literary technique, or something non-plot specific, then you don't have to do this. Or maybe everyone is done with the book.

One specific question I have right now is mainly for Lara and is about the setting. The author is from Asheville, and it seems like the book draws a lot from the area. Are there any things in the book that are very Ashevillian? Any references to places that really exist?

3 comments:

Sturge said...

one star my ass, i totally dug this book and yes, i am done reading it as is ann. i will say that i am not getting email alerts when people leave comments so maybe people aren't checking the page? also, as for the whole asheville thing... i have only been here a few months. sorry, but i would have to give you a 'who knows'

dumby said...

I finished the book last week in sunny florida. While it wasn't my favorite, there were some quality quotes among the excessive parenthetical asides.
What do you guys think about the references? Too many? I get the feeling that a lot of the books referenced aren't real, so one wonders what the point is.

dumby said...

one certainly wonders