Comments on: Abandoning Fiction Ruined My Family

By: Charlotte Rains Dixon

Charlotte Rains Dixon — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:13:43 +0000

I’d love to be a fly on the wall at your book club discussion. Sounds like a thoroughly unpleasant book, thanks for saving me from reading it.

By: phantomxii

phantomxii — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:53:40 +0000

In reply to Jodi. @Jodi, that's a good motto, and I don't know exactly what drew me through that book to the (anticlimactic) finish. Maybe because all the sloppiness and flabbiness seemed funnier the farther I went!

By: Jodi

Jodi — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:50:48 +0000

In reply to phantomxii. @phantomxii, Oh, I've never read that one. I have read plenty of stinkers. However, the more I stick to my 'life is too short for bad books' motto, I only half-read most stinkers. Though it had no serious aspirations, I always say The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks was the worst novel I ever read.

By: phantomxii

phantomxii — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:48:23 +0000

BLEAH! The bitterness in that excerpt is amusing…bitterness, I’ll bet, that she got lousy grades herself for writing, a fact she only wishes she could attribute to so-called “high literary” knowledge. The author’s failings you describe remind me of “A Live Coal in the Sea” by Madeleine L’Engle, which is the worst novel I’ve ever read–at least, the worst novel with apparently serious aspirations. Except that this book sounds even worse.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:27:32 +0000

In reply to Suzy. @Suzy, Thank you. I love writing about the books I read. This one was unanimously voted a dog by my entire bookclub, which doesn't happen often. We usually have at least one person whose all "it wasn't so bad." Not this time.