09-25-2012, 04:54 AM
I suppose, for me the execution can make or ruin a book. I'm currently reading the Windup Girl which is absolutely fantastic, brilliantly written, and unimaginably original. It's like bathing in a pool of fantastic. Compared to all of the exceptionally original and well executed books it gets kicked down a flight of proverbial stairs. A story about a goldfish that becomes Santa and swims across the Atlantic to save a duck named Steve to help him in the North Pole, and who is a single father struggling to make divorce payments to a Canadian ostrich is original too xD. The characters were rather dull, the story line was eh, vampires were practically ruin, and the writing was abysmal.
I never read the Host, maybe I'll pick it up sometime. I didn't know she had written anything else.
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