tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045246505879536568.post8126391135062344320..comments2023-10-23T10:38:43.623-07:00Comments on Competent Parent: Books of 2010: What not to ReadJFohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14540721351105033478noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045246505879536568.post-24560041040090184742010-12-31T04:38:21.165-08:002010-12-31T04:38:21.165-08:00K,
Thanks for adding to the list of what not to r...K,<br /><br />Thanks for adding to the list of what not to read. After reading your reviews, I wish we had more access to people's negative opinions of books. Reviews in the media hardly seem trustworthy, like there's always publisher pay for play at work. Saving each other time by honestly panning a book constitutes true public service.<br /><br />JFoJFohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14540721351105033478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045246505879536568.post-24272602280347467972010-12-30T20:43:24.772-08:002010-12-30T20:43:24.772-08:00I would recommend passing on _The Owl Service_, a ...I would recommend passing on _The Owl Service_, a young adult novel that takes place in Wales and didn't seem to have much of a point. I think it was first published many years ago, like 25 or 30 years ago.<br /><br />Also _The Road_ by Cormac McCarthy. I read it because a) post-apocalyptic and b) recently made into a movie starring Viggo Mortensen. It was very, very well-written and fascinating but so, so terribly sad and I just cried and cried. I expect that anyone who has ever loved a child would have the same reaction.<br /><br />Finally, _God is not Great_ by Christopher Hitchens. I grabbed this b/c I had read some columns by him and like way he writes; also b/c the opening paragraphs are engaging. His thesis is that all religion is a) false and b) destructive. I'm almost finished--can quite get through the last 10-15 pages--and he has yet to mention *non-fanatical* religion. I guess he figures that whatever religion you might follow, if you don't believe in its holy books completely and literally, you're not *really* a follower of that religion, so you don't count. (?) Maybe. Anyway, it's not as interesting as I thought it would be and the second half has been particularly tedious.Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925772670453740072noreply@blogger.com