30 Days of Books - a Belated Day 11

Day 11 – A book that disappointed you

Clive Barker's Sacrament. I think it might have been better if Barker had just left out the more fantastic elements & written it as a dark romance. Steep & Rosa were kind of copy/pasted into the book, they didn't feel organic or part of the greater story. They seemed a little too much like Boris & Natasha, or some other evil villain duo. I didn't get to know the protagonist well enough to feel sympathetic towards him, or feel much of anything at all - I think I felt sorrier for his boyfriend having to deal w/his mood swings than I did for the main character when he got mauled by the bear.

It was just a meh experience - I struggled through it, hoping it would get better, but it never did. Clive Barker owes me about 4 days of my life back.

Speaking of which, Anne Rice owes me like, 3 weeks of my life back for Feast of All Saints. Oh my fucking Gods, but that book sucked. It was possibly the most boring thing I've read in my entire life, including algebra textbooks. I read it right after Cry to Heaven and had high expectations for it, but it was just a miserable read.


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30 Days of Books - Day 12

Day 12 – A book or series of books you’ve read more than five times

If I enjoy a book, I will re-read it, over and over and over again. Watership Down gets read about once a year, so that's about 28 times so far; Imajica about once every 2 years, so that's 12 times so far; Jonathon Livingston Seagull is on a 5-year cycle, along with Illusions, so that's 6 & 5 respectively. As far as entire series go, it would be Hitchhiker's Guide, Clan of the Cave Bear & the Immortals by Piers Anthony. There's also a lot of non-fic that I will re-read - namely books on Vodou & medicinal herbology. The Vodou books are read straight through, the herb books in chunks, drips and drabs.

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