MengZe Chen Chen itibaren Zarya, Kaluzhskaya oblast', Ռուսաստան, 249096
i get that in a book about 4 people who meet on the rooftop they're all planning to jump from, nick hornby didn't want to go easy on his characters - that he wanted to remind us that these people were selfish, self-destructive and miserable anytime we might be tempted to think otherwise. and it was funny, and i really liked all the characters, and it's not that i ever disliked it (because as long as he's not writing How to be Good, i'll always be a sucker for hornby's writing), but it didn't take long to get repetitive and with most every potentially heartfelt moment being ripped away from me over and over for both a point and a laugh, it ended up feeling kind of empty.
i really liked this book , because it was mostly about suspense
Stranger in a Strange Land (the uncut edition) is one my brother's all-time favorite sci-fi books, and he's been telling me to read it for some time. I enjoyed the book, though it wasn't at all what I expected it to be. I can appreciate it for being well ahead of its time in so many regards, and provocative even, but at the end of the day I had a hard time sitting down and reading it for long periods of time. Perhaps because there was a lot to digest, I'd have to come back to it. But as a result it took me a long time to get through it. Not necessarily a bad thing (sometimes the best books take time), but I wouldn't pack it in your bag for a vacation weekend. Oh, and there was some irony for me because I read it while I'm living in Austria, and feeling a bit like a stranger myself.