Amy’s Comments (group member since May 26, 2011)

Amy’s comments from the Inside Lane Reading Concern group.

Okay, so we'll read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. Awesome. Ten pages a day okay, or do you want to take it faster/slower?

At the moment in the poll, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles is winning

I think so, Sarah.

Yes! Good plan! We should definitely keep going. I think we all just got disheartened after An Object Of Beauty.

To distract us all from the truly awful experience that reading An Object of Beauty has become...let us look forward to the next book.

We have a few suggestions on the bookshelf of this group already. However, we're open to new ones.

If you have any suggestions for books to read, pop them on the group's bookshelf. On the weekend, I'll put up a poll and we can all vote for the next book to read.

I don't know about you, but I'm really not enjoying this now.

It's a pity. I like Steve Martin and I think that "An Object of Beauty" started really well. It's just getting a bit ridiculous now.

Is anyone else really not enjoying it any more? If so, do you think we should keep going or...ditch it?

It's starting to drag a little bit around the 200 page mark, I'm finding...

I have no bother about Lacey being a "cheap little whore" because like you said, no-one is really getting hurt, she's not having sex with people and making them fall in love, she's just having sex. As long as no-one is getting hurt, who cares?

It's more the fact that she shows little or no emotional attachment to anything or anyone. That's why I don't like her.

I kind of want to be her in a weird way; I want the confident and the panache. I just don't want to be heartless with it. There are many ways to describe Lacey, but "nice" isn't one of them.

I'm seeing all characters in a Venn diagram of "People Lacey is using" and "People Lacey wants to have sex with/has had sex with". The females are all in the former, the males are mostly in both.

Not sure if this is a criticism or not; it is a story about Lacey, so I suppose it's not too surprising that the narrative and character development focuses on her rather than anyone else.

She would. In fact I don't think she actually could be a narrator - she'd be too busy getting distracted and doing other things.

Books and maths. It's a wonderful combination. Ta :)

Tis fine by me!

No problem, Sam. When do we all want to start reading the first book?

We could work it out. If a book is 350 pages and we are reading 50 a week, to find the equivalent on iBooks just find out how many pages it is on iBooks and divide by 7 to get a rough approximation. It may not be exact but it would bring us all up to roughly the same point.

Oh, you have a Kindle, don't you? I don't have an e-reader yet. I'm living in the dark ages.

Maybe the 50 pages a week limit would work well, then. Would you be able to get the books we'll be reading over in Germanland? For example, it looks like Steve Martin's "An Object of Beauty" is first on the list...

I've added one.

How about Steve Martin's "An Object of Beauty", purely because there's currently only two of us here and I know we've both got it...