Selective Reading
I've not been reading since I got back from Iceland, but was eager to start again. So, that day at Borders when I was buying the half-blood prince for the round-headed one, I took the opportunity to get at 30% discount this book called Middlesex.
You might have heard of this book; it's the 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner. I don't read a whole lot of books, so I tend to be more selective. Since I read Angela's Ashes a few years back (still my favourite!), I started to look for such award-winning novels. Not that I want to appear really sophisticated, but these books usually aren't that bad at all. And you get a good dose of different authors with different styles. Besides, I think I've had too much Jeffrey Archer and Sidney Sheldon when I was younger. Other than that, sometimes I try classics to see just what the fuss was all about.
Middlesex may sound a little X-rated, but it's actually the story of a hermaphrodite (ok, the theme is rather adult-oriented). I'm still less than 100 pages into it, but it's certainly promising. As I don't buy books often, mainly because I don't know what to do with them after I'm done, this one's better be good!
Maybe I'll write more about it soon. Meanwhile, check out these other award-winning books I've read in the past one or two years:
You might have heard of this book; it's the 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner. I don't read a whole lot of books, so I tend to be more selective. Since I read Angela's Ashes a few years back (still my favourite!), I started to look for such award-winning novels. Not that I want to appear really sophisticated, but these books usually aren't that bad at all. And you get a good dose of different authors with different styles. Besides, I think I've had too much Jeffrey Archer and Sidney Sheldon when I was younger. Other than that, sometimes I try classics to see just what the fuss was all about.Middlesex may sound a little X-rated, but it's actually the story of a hermaphrodite (ok, the theme is rather adult-oriented). I'm still less than 100 pages into it, but it's certainly promising. As I don't buy books often, mainly because I don't know what to do with them after I'm done, this one's better be good!
Maybe I'll write more about it soon. Meanwhile, check out these other award-winning books I've read in the past one or two years:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - nice, cute and easy reading
- Vernon God Little - funny, dark satire with profanity in every page
- Life of Pi - I'm not that into this, but interesting believe-it-or-not story nevertheless
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3 Comments:
Same here, I try to read award winning books becos where got time to select one by one and read? Let others do the selecting! (Quite brainless, but better things to do than read a gazillion books).
And quite coincidentally, have read all 3 you listed (though never heard of Middlesex oops).
Liked Curious Incident, did not like Vernon, Pi pips Curious Incident. But none I really love...
Am now onto Monkey Business, about i-banking and how silly the whole industry is. Trying to convince myself that I am not missing out although I can't get in, ha!
Huh! I thot Pi was pretty crappy, and i was left guessing if the author's jus bluffing..
Yup but thats the twist with Pi... and the author makes a point on whether you should belive it or not.
Which should not be mentioned because then it will spoil everything... sounds familiar? Haha!
BTW War of the Worlds' ending suck big time.
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