April 2017 Reading
May. 4th, 2017 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
princessofburundiI didn't do a ton of reading in April, but I did manage six books:
The Great Zoo of China was AWFUL. In the first place, the idea was an out-and-out rip off of Jurassic Park, except that Crichton's book had dinosaurs and Reilly's mess of words had dragons, which, it turns out, are actually a type of dinosaur that hibernates for millions of years. To add to the indignity of this book, whereas Crichton told a tense, taut tale which kept readers guessing from page to page, Reilly's editors should never have let his slipshod and unskilled writing anywhere near a printer. It was a disgrace of a book.
If anyone wants more info about any of the other books I've read, please feel free to ask.
- What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
- One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
The Great Zoo of China was AWFUL. In the first place, the idea was an out-and-out rip off of Jurassic Park, except that Crichton's book had dinosaurs and Reilly's mess of words had dragons, which, it turns out, are actually a type of dinosaur that hibernates for millions of years. To add to the indignity of this book, whereas Crichton told a tense, taut tale which kept readers guessing from page to page, Reilly's editors should never have let his slipshod and unskilled writing anywhere near a printer. It was a disgrace of a book.
If anyone wants more info about any of the other books I've read, please feel free to ask.
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