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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Curt. If I may offer some advice, unasked for.
Read the book and decide for yourself. Someone may hate it, you may love it. You could be denying yourself a pleasurable read if others don't care for it, and you listen to them.
You may hate it. But if you read it for yourself, without others input, you'll at least know how you feel about it isn't colored by anothers view.
If I depended on others points of view, I would have never read "A Passage to India". I enjoyed it. Others really didn't.
same goes for Dickens. You may still hate the writing style and subjects. BUT.............you may not. You will never know until you begin reading......
But thats just me.  |
I second your emotion! Reading & enjoying books is a highly individualistic experience - I use suggestions/lists from this forum to explore on my own - but I make up my own mind. But there's only ONE way to decide if you like or don't like an author or book - take the plunge and read it. That's one advantage for Amazon - the Kindle samples usually give you enough text to decide if you want to buy the entire book.
