Bettie’s review of Any Human Heart > Likes and Comments
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Thanks Pat. This is a story to get one's teeth into and we like them big and fat don't we!
Laura wrote: "5 stars?? Must be really good."
I cried at the end. Logan became just so real to me.
oooh, Bettie. You cried? I'm not capable of reading a tear-jerker just yet. My library has it and will read it when I'm in a better frame of mind.
Pat wrote: "oooh, Bettie. You cried? I'm not capable of reading a tear-jerker just yet. My library has it and will read it when I'm in a better frame of mind."
Mountstuart was so fully realised, a flawed human being, that come the end, it felt that it was a close friend who was lost to me. A real lump in the throat and moist tear duct moment.
It'll keep until the time is right.
:O)
As a librarian, I could delete the description and insert a corrected version. Yes? No? What say you?
After the massive import/export via gr and amazon (hence that review instead of description) you should leave it alone Wanda. It is a corporate decision - to their disgrace!! Wouldn't want you to be booted off site.
Wanda wrote: "Yes ma'am."
See what I mean: http://gumbywan.booklikes.com/post/76...
Every single book in my currently reading shelf has had screwed up data in the gr database. Every book I've placed in my planning to read shelf in the past month has been wrong except for the ones I entered in gr.
What possible reason could there be for Amazon to want all its data in its flagship user database to be wrong? Why did they load the Amazon data on top of the gr data, thereby deleting the more accurate gr database? If anything they should have only loaded exceptions, books that did not already exist in gr. This would have been easy with an ISBN and ASIN match search, just like gr used to do when you tried to add another book or edition on top of the existing ISBN or ASIN. This will take even the Librarians left or those not fed up years to correct. What about users who want to buy a book off gr and the data is wrong? What's to keep Amazon from doing it again? Doesn't Amazon have a legal responsibility as a seller to provide accurate descriptions of its products?
Glad you loved the book, Bettie. I've been wanting to read it since I saw the BBC dramatization. Must get to it soon.
Karen wrote: "Glad you loved the book, Bettie. I've been wanting to read it since I saw the BBC dramatization. Must get to it soon."
Thanks Karen. Very pleasantly surprised with the miniseries.
:O)
Thanks GoldCato, Chris
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Bettie I like the sound of this one. xx
I liked this book a lot. In fact I like most of the output from this writer. I tend to agree with the ratings you've given a number of his books, in your review.
Andrew wrote: "I liked this book a lot. In fact I like most of the output from this writer. I tend to agree with the ratings you've given a number of his books, in your review."
Some writers simply fit one's brain don't they. I get a shiver at the sound of Boyd, Goddard, Murdoch, Robinson etc even if the individual item is sub-par.
:O)
I thought the film version was horribly cast, which you can't recover from.
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Thanks Pat. This is a story to get one's teeth into and we like them big and fat don't we!
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Laura wrote: "5 stars?? Must be really good."I cried at the end. Logan became just so real to me.
oooh, Bettie. You cried? I'm not capable of reading a tear-jerker just yet. My library has it and will read it when I'm in a better frame of mind.
Pat wrote: "oooh, Bettie. You cried? I'm not capable of reading a tear-jerker just yet. My library has it and will read it when I'm in a better frame of mind."Mountstuart was so fully realised, a flawed human being, that come the end, it felt that it was a close friend who was lost to me. A real lump in the throat and moist tear duct moment.
It'll keep until the time is right.
:O)
As a librarian, I could delete the description and insert a corrected version. Yes? No? What say you?
After the massive import/export via gr and amazon (hence that review instead of description) you should leave it alone Wanda. It is a corporate decision - to their disgrace!! Wouldn't want you to be booted off site.
Wanda wrote: "Yes ma'am."See what I mean: http://gumbywan.booklikes.com/post/76...
Every single book in my currently reading shelf has had screwed up data in the gr database. Every book I've placed in my planning to read shelf in the past month has been wrong except for the ones I entered in gr.
What possible reason could there be for Amazon to want all its data in its flagship user database to be wrong? Why did they load the Amazon data on top of the gr data, thereby deleting the more accurate gr database? If anything they should have only loaded exceptions, books that did not already exist in gr. This would have been easy with an ISBN and ASIN match search, just like gr used to do when you tried to add another book or edition on top of the existing ISBN or ASIN. This will take even the Librarians left or those not fed up years to correct. What about users who want to buy a book off gr and the data is wrong? What's to keep Amazon from doing it again? Doesn't Amazon have a legal responsibility as a seller to provide accurate descriptions of its products?
Glad you loved the book, Bettie. I've been wanting to read it since I saw the BBC dramatization. Must get to it soon.
Karen wrote: "Glad you loved the book, Bettie. I've been wanting to read it since I saw the BBC dramatization. Must get to it soon."Thanks Karen. Very pleasantly surprised with the miniseries.
:O)
Thanks GoldCato, Chris:O)
Bettie I like the sound of this one. xx
I liked this book a lot. In fact I like most of the output from this writer. I tend to agree with the ratings you've given a number of his books, in your review.
Andrew wrote: "I liked this book a lot. In fact I like most of the output from this writer. I tend to agree with the ratings you've given a number of his books, in your review."Some writers simply fit one's brain don't they. I get a shiver at the sound of Boyd, Goddard, Murdoch, Robinson etc even if the individual item is sub-par.
:O)
I thought the film version was horribly cast, which you can't recover from.
