I tried 3 times to read this book in November. I don't know why but I just couldn't get into it and I actually do like the classics. I kept putting it down and picking up something else. Then I would finish a book and try again but it just never seemed to take. Maybe I will try again if it gets good endorsements from the rest of the gang.
Julie- I do not think you are alone here. I ended up skimming a lot because I couldn't do it. I know my mom is still struggling through it. It's not that it isn't good... it is just... well the way I said it to my mom is that I think it takes a whole book to say what could have been said in a few chapters. I really liked it when I first started reading and I read the first little bit pretty fast and then it just started getting a little boring for me. So, we'll see if anyone was able to make it through the entire thing...
Yep...I am with you both! This is really a hard read probably because it just goes and goes with no chapters and so one feels they are not getting anywhere. Also, although I find it interesting in many parts I think a lot of words and pages are used to write what could have been done in much fewer chapters. I still have not finished it and have taken a break until after the Holidays and our December book. Then I will try to get back to it. I have always wanted to read it so am going to try to stick with it. It definately is different from what I thought it would be.
I just finished reading the book on Sunday, the first! I am glad I read it although it was not an easy read. I liked the second part better than the first...it went faster and I was so happy that Christian's wife decided later to join the pligrimage with their 4 children! It is an "interesting" book with the use of names to depict values and strengths and sins and problems. Oh, I read a little about the author after I finished the book and found it interesting that he was put in jail (in England) several times and once for several months for writing that book and preaching "in a form not standard and accepted" by the church rules of the day.
We are a group of sisters, mothers, daughters, cousins, aunts, grandmothers, and friends coming together because of our shared love of reading.
Annegirl
Favorite books are the Anne series and Emily series by L.M Montgomery, the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, Timeline and Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton,just about everything by Shannon Hale (especially Goose Girl and Book of A Thousand Days), the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, the Eragon series by Christopher Paolini, the Hunger Games trilogy and Gregor series by Suzanne Collins, the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, and Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld. I add to my favorites list all the time!
Bookworm
Favorite books include Gone With the Wind, the Harry Potter series, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Hunt for Red October, The Patriarch (George Washington), Those Who Love, and The Presidents Lady
Stampin_Maniac
Favorite books are the Twilight series, any by Mary Higgins Clark, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, autobiographies, and The Work and the Glory series.
Julie
Favorite books include...East of Eden and all other John Steinbeck works, 1984, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, Anna Karenina, Rebecca, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Memoirs of a Geisha, Charlotte's Web (and lots of other children's fiction novels)
Holly
Favorite books include Emma, the Harry Potter series, The Little Prince, Taming of the Shrew, Ender's Game, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Twilight series, A Christmas Carol, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Help, The Hunger Games, The Screwtape Letters, OPJB, and all of Bill Peet's children's books.
Deenie Bug
Favorite books are The Quicksilver Pool, Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Moonraker's Bride, Window on the Square, The Secret Garden, Harry Potter series, Lord of the Rings, and Agatha Christie books.
Wendy
Favorite books are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Oh the places you'll go, 1776, Little Women, Persuasion, The Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, Little House, Christy, and A Lantern in her hand
BreeAnn
Favorite books are To Kill A Mockingbird, Little House on the Prairie, The Notebook, Twilight series, Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Work and the Glory series, anything by Mary Higgins Clark, and A child called it.
Sanya the Duck
Favorite books are Pride and Prejudice, The Good Earth, The Count of Monte Cristo, Harry Potter series, Twilight series, Anne of Green Gables, These is my Words, The Chronicles of Narnia, the Work and the Glory series, and The Kingdom and the Crown series.
Keddy-Weddy
G-Mama
Favorite books are Matilda, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca, The Hiding Place, The Outsiders, Dealing with Dragons series, Twilight series, The Lord of the Rings series, The Thirteenth Tale, and Emily of New Moon
Stephanie
Favorite books include The Twilight series
Mel
Hare_Bear
Favorite books are the Twilight series and the Harry Potter series
4 comments:
I tried 3 times to read this book in November. I don't know why but I just couldn't get into it and I actually do like the classics. I kept putting it down and picking up something else. Then I would finish a book and try again but it just never seemed to take. Maybe I will try again if it gets good endorsements from the rest of the gang.
Julie- I do not think you are alone here. I ended up skimming a lot because I couldn't do it.
I know my mom is still struggling through it.
It's not that it isn't good... it is just...
well the way I said it to my mom is that I think it takes a whole book to say what could have been said in a few chapters.
I really liked it when I first started reading and I read the first little bit pretty fast and then it just started getting a little boring for me.
So, we'll see if anyone was able to make it through the entire thing...
Yep...I am with you both! This is really a hard read probably because it just goes and goes with no chapters and so one feels they are not getting anywhere. Also, although I find it interesting in many parts I think a lot of words and pages are used to write what could have been done in much fewer chapters. I still have not finished it and have taken a break until after the Holidays and our December book. Then I will try to get back to it. I have always wanted to read it so am going to try to stick with it. It definately is different from what I thought it would be.
I just finished reading the book on Sunday, the first! I am glad I read it although it was not an easy read. I liked the second part better than the first...it went faster and I was so happy that Christian's wife decided later to join the pligrimage with their 4 children! It is an "interesting" book with the use of names to depict values and strengths and sins and problems. Oh, I read a little about the author after I finished the book and found it interesting that he was put in jail (in England) several times and once for several months for writing that book and preaching "in a form not standard and accepted" by the church rules of the day.
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