L.S. Popovich
wants
to read:
Short stories are better than novels. I need a huge and I mean ginormous collection of short stories by one author. Can be ebook. Can be speculative fiction or realist. I am working my way through Zelazny, Poul Anderson, Brian Aldiss, JC Oates, Jack Short stories are better than novels. I need a huge and I mean ginormous collection of short stories by one author. Can be ebook. Can be speculative fiction or realist. I am working my way through Zelazny, Poul Anderson, Brian Aldiss, JC Oates, Jack Vance, R. A Lafferty, Twain. Already finished Bradbury, Chekhov, PK Dick, Lovecraft, Poe, Hemingway. Who is the ultimate short story master? Anthologies are okay as long as they are not recycling the typical ones....more
About:
If it's on my want list I plan to read it (eventually).
Books and friends serve the same purpose. The more the merrier.
Recommendations, messages and inIf it's on my want list I plan to read it (eventually).
Books and friends serve the same purpose. The more the merrier.
Recommendations, messages and invites are welcome.
That being said, I prefer to reread a book I love than force myself to finish a book I dislike.
RATING:
***** - worth rereading. Allowed for total suspension of reality. I was absorbed in the book, at least most of the way through. It also did something different, and didn't just repeat a tried and true formula.
**** - a good read. 7-9 stars on a ten-point scale. Might not hold up to a second reading, but probably was a work of genius or, if only slightly, altered my perception, greatly stimulated my imagination and made me want to turn pages.
*** - still a good book. Based on classic tropes reused through the centuries. Might be worth reading if its subject matter interests me or it's considered a classic. But it didn't really break the mold.
** - Somehow insulted my intelligence as a reader. It might have good ideas, but the story is not convincing - meaning the way it conveys the information does not create the illusion of reality with the world-building. Elicits the phrase we've all heard so many times: "it didn't grab me." A blurb on the cover says it's "fiendishly clever."
* - All the characters in the book do nothing but take drugs, drink, and act immoral. Nothing actually happens for about 99% of the book. Unreadable....more
