Shaun’s Comments (group member since Jun 13, 2012)

Shaun’s comments from the The Dapper Gentlemen of Letters group.

lets crank this shit back up mutherfuckers!

Far North - Marcel Theroux & Into the Forest - Jean Hegland are some suggestions

Brian got any suggestions? I kinda missed out on Mr Blank, ie, didnt read it ...but I am on board for the next book whole heartedly..in the next few days I will try to make a few suggestions

hahahaha

yeah you will!

I am interested in trying out the Western The Sisters Brothers, just because I do not read any westerns and heard this was a good one.

I found this book a bit slow going at first but the third time I started it I finally continued and finished. Mitchell was very clever in the way he tied each of the "novellas" together, traversing from one story/time period to the next and back again. The writing is very intelligent and definitely challenged my vocabulary at times. I was a little underwhelmed with the anticlimactic ending. It was amazing how Mitchell blended different genres and writing styles, so many different voices and time periods...Enjoyable read, brilliant prose. I wanted to see the movie , but I see it is not getting good reviews and I am pretty over Tom Hanks these days.

Started to read this as soon as it was picked...started slow, put it down, restarted...got slow and completely stopped. trying again now

BOOSH!

I am also interested in reading Outliers, its non fiction, same author as the Tipping Point which I enjoyed

i know i repeat myself from previous statements but this was my end "review": I enjoyed this book, but I felt like it dragged on too long and I was relieved to finally finish it. I liked the premise of T'Rain and the real world intersecting and the eccentric characters involved with the creation and upkeep of the game. The action portions of the book were exciting but often dragged on with long and unnecessary descriptions and details , sometimes giving it a screenplay like feel. Seemed the terrorism plot took over the book and became a main focus even though there were many elements that were much more interesting and a little less cliche. Alot of the characters were well thought out and had interesting back stories which kept me reading but some of these backstories ended up feeling like loose ends. I did notice quite a few typos but they did not bother me but i thought it was strange. I found that some things "worked out" for characters in a way that was too coincidental or hyper realistic.

i am cool with Art of Fielding for the next book

Shaun wrote: "this book seems like it was written to be a movie..."

well that means it has really good imagery and storytelling ... so I don't mean anything bad by that... but everything seems to be at face value and so there is not alot of deeper meaning to everything and the coincidences are out of control btw

this book seems like it was written to be a movie...

I feel you both on the excessive descriptions on buildings, guns and other things that really do not have to be described but so much... but i still find it hard to not want to keep reading... the characters are written well,interesting and the circumstances of how they all come together are really keeping my interest
i also feel like there is a sense of humor about the book ...

loved the part when the russians take over Peter's "space" Bringing in the contractor's plastic and tools ...how it was implied that Wallace was disposed of without actually having that be a "scene" in the book

Albert wrote: "I'm about 150 pages in or so, I agree very detail heavy, tough to read when sleepy."

very much agree here

so far liking the book... I was worried he might lose me for a minute with some of the more technical talk about T'Rain , but it was fine ...I am probably going to be the slower reader of the bunch here but I will try to share what I am thinking /feeling about it here as I go. Likeing the many characters and their development.