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luzulaThe Road by Cormac McCarthy (audiobook)
For book-club-at-work. When we finally decided on an SF book, did it have to be such a depressing one (and also by a mainstream author)? Anyway, it kind of bored me. Yeah, I guess it was good at painting a mood, but nothing really changed throughout the book, so it just felt like one long depressing scene where nothing happened. This meant that it all kind of ran together when listened to as an audiobook. Also, I feel like this is hardly an SF book at all--the setting feels like just a backdrop, and we don't get any understanding of what happened. (Looking at the Goodreads reviews, this seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it book.)
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I'm reviewing this as a book--it's book-length, after all. This is a 1950's femslash Holmes/Watson AU that I feel like everyone was reading a while ago, but I only now got around to it. And wow, I loved it! I was just super caught up in it and couldn't stop reading, and the setting is immersive. I love what the author did with Holmes and Watson, as well as with the supporting characters--I would happily read a whole book about Smithy and Gina and Ted. It's also a very impressive casefic, where I really enjoyed following along in the twists and turns. Also, A+ porn. Recommended!
For book-club-at-work. When we finally decided on an SF book, did it have to be such a depressing one (and also by a mainstream author)? Anyway, it kind of bored me. Yeah, I guess it was good at painting a mood, but nothing really changed throughout the book, so it just felt like one long depressing scene where nothing happened. This meant that it all kind of ran together when listened to as an audiobook. Also, I feel like this is hardly an SF book at all--the setting feels like just a backdrop, and we don't get any understanding of what happened. (Looking at the Goodreads reviews, this seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it book.)
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I'm reviewing this as a book--it's book-length, after all. This is a 1950's femslash Holmes/Watson AU that I feel like everyone was reading a while ago, but I only now got around to it. And wow, I loved it! I was just super caught up in it and couldn't stop reading, and the setting is immersive. I love what the author did with Holmes and Watson, as well as with the supporting characters--I would happily read a whole book about Smithy and Gina and Ted. It's also a very impressive casefic, where I really enjoyed following along in the twists and turns. Also, A+ porn. Recommended!
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Date: 2015-09-12 04:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-09-12 05:56 pm (UTC)there's too much other stuff out there that I could be reading.
Indeed! Depending on the size of the book (or fic), I'll give it a few pages (meaning a chapter or two) before I quit it. My TBR pile is huge--to the point that I don't lack any other reading materials. \Reading/!