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Blonde by J C Oates...a masterpiece!
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George....because i'm a completist geek
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley...a modern-day Decameron...what's not to love?
Happy Thanksgiving, all
J ... today from PBS:
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
................Happy Thanksgiving to all of you people, y'hear............. Stasia - I read Smiley's Ten Days in the Hills a couple of years ago, and did not like it much at all. I think that the only reason that I picked A Thousand Acres up was that my mom loaned it to me. But I thought it was much different (and better) than Ten Days in the Hills. I had thought ... I just abandoned my first book of the year - Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley. I've enjoyed other books she's written, and I tried 160 pages of this one but honestly I wouldn't have cared if it had burst into flames in front of me. "Life's too short for books you don't enjoy!" said my ... I've read Ten Days in the Hills by Smiley, and I didn't like it much - although I've heard from others that it is not her best. ... by Sue Grafton
3. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
4. Good Faith by Jane Smiley
5. Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
6. Me and my Baby view the eclipse by Lee Smith
7. Cakewalk by Lee Smith
8. Postcards by E. Annie Proulx
9. That Old ... ... ing
Wild animus (1.29), Dianetics : the modern science of mental health : a handbook of dianetics procedure (1.34), Ten days in the hills (2.02), The Washingtonienne (2.18), The Thomas Berryman number (2.29), Chariots of the gods : unsolved mysteries of the past (2.31), ... you say Moo is wonderful, and Horse Heaven is terrific. I wasn't a big fan of Good Faith, and I've stayed away from Ten Days in the Hills, but I may buy it now that it's in paperback. I remember loving those earlier books, but it's probably 20 years since I read them. ... Lost
Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves
Deborah Robertson, Careless
Rachel Seiffert, Afterwards
Jane Smiley, Ten Days in the Hills
Anne Tyler, Digging to America
Melanie Wallace, The Housekeeper ...
Middlesex My girlfriend recommended this. I think I've read the first chapter but can't empathize with main character.
Ten Days in the Hills I love Jane Smiley's writing and fully intend to read all of her work...someday.
Emotional Intelligence I found this for fifty cents at Goodwi ... ... King - interesting tale of a FBI agent right after world war 1. Themes include use of power and the traumas of war.
8. Ten days in the hills - I slogged my way through this very boring book about boring people having lots of boring sex hoping for some sort of resolution at the end. It was ... I was really disappointed by Ten Days In the Hills too. None of the characters were likable or interesting in the least. Louis (#26), Although I am a big Jane Smiley fan, I just had a feeling I wasn't going to like Ten Days in the Hills so I didn't buy it. But I may break down when it comes out in paperback. ... Rupert Thomson's Death of a Murderer was no more than medium-grade piffle, as was Jane Smiley's total waste-of-time Ten Days in the Hills; A.L. Kennedy's Day was grossly ill-conceived, right along with the dumbest post-apocalyptic novel I've ever read, Jim Crace's The Pest House. An ...
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley 4/07 ... Penney The Tenderness of Wolves
Deborah Robertson Careless
Rachel Seiffert Afterwards
Jane Smiley Ten Days in the Hills
Anne Tyler Digging to America
Melanie Wallace The Housekeeper Currently reading The Dalai Lama at MIT. Next up: The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford and Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley I'm really not trying to harp on how unhappy I was with Jane Smiley's Ten Days in the Hills, because I truly admire Smiley and have recommended her work many times over the years, but perhaps the weakest aspect of her new book is in the portrayals of her Hollywood characters, all of which ... #6, Louis Branning, Thanks for the warning about Ten Days in the Hills. As I mentioned before, I too am a big Jane Smiley fan (although I have found her work a little uneven -- some books great, some less so), but I was discouraged by the reviews and now I will stay away (well, at least ... There were several times that I wanted to just toss Jane Smiley's bad idea of a novel Ten Days in the Hills and move on to something else, but I plowed through to the end of this bloated, plotless piece of tedium, and can only advise any other interested readers to avoid it at all costs. I've ... ... story and I could hardly put it down.
Right now I'm about 50 pages into Jane Smiley's new Hollywood sex novel Ten Days in the Hills and don't know how I'm gonna last through 450-pages with this crew, but I'm trying anyway.
LouisBranning, let us know what you think of Ten Days in the Hills. I'm a big Jane Smiley fan (although I think she's quite uneven), but I was turned off by the reviews of this. (Hmm, maybe "turned off" isn't the right thing to say about a sex book!) In today's mail from Amazon, a copy of Jane Smiley's Hollywood sex book Ten Days in the Hills.
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