[ebooktalk] Re: FOLLOW UP ON BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
- From: "David Russelll" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:53:07 +0100
I always make a note of book recommendations and who recommended them. I do
not always get around to reading them, or at least not immediately. There
are always books I know I wish to read, and sometimes others slip down the
list. I do tend to know whose recommendations are likely to appeal, and
make a particular note of a book I did not expect to like and found it
really worth reading.
I am currently reading the new Elizabeth George. I used to love her books,
but the last three or four in her series have not thrilled me too much.
This new one is rather slow and is 720 pages long, so is becoming tedious.
The booker winner might well be next, but that is even longer so I just
might find something shorter before I tackle that one.
David
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Sent: 18 October 2013 19:44
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: FOLLOW UP ON BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Ian, I look forward to hear what you think of Mary - I read it earlier this
year and thoroughly enjoyed it.
As for recommendations - I keep a spreadsheet of recommendations that take
my fancy, and then use it when I need ot add titles to my talking book or
Calibre selection list. So it's rare for me to read a book at the time
suggested, I'm afraid, mainly because I'm always behind with things to be
read for book groups etc. However now and again I will rebel and just go for
something completely different. I've done this with a couple of the books
you've sent through - the political ones - and it's been great to do that.
However, I've recently begun to think the flaw in my system is not keeping a
note of who recommended the individual titles.
June
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On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
Sent: 18 October 2013 14:17
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Subject: [ebooktalk] FOLLOW UP ON BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
This message is also by way of a test as I've been getting sporadic service
from this list both in terms of receiving and being able to send messages.
But here's what kicked off my train of thought. Before going on holiday I
asked for recommendations for a good long book to read. shell not only
recommended one, she sent it to me. It's Mary, a novelised account of the
wife of Abraham Lincoln. Because just after that the David Peace book
became available to me, I didn't take the book with me. But I'm about to
start it now. This lead me to wonder whether anyone had acted on
recommendations from the list and had either good or bad experiences. Did
anyone ever read Evermore by Peter Hamil? I wonder whether Clare or anyone
else picked up Delores clayborne? And are there any other examples of
recommendations? I'll report back on the book I'm about to start.
Provided, that is, the list will allow me to do so.
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