Hey, Randy Ray! 🤗 I had to look up Emily Henry. I started reading Happy Place last year. I was unable to finish it and I don’t have an answer as to why. 🤔 I was really liking it. I know you read it, though. I tried to read Moby Dick about 4 times. I finally did it this past October, I believe. I have started The Count Of Monte Cristo 15 years ago…. Unfinished. My bad!!😂 Thank you for the tag, buddy.
In Search of Lost Time. I would need some serious amphetamines to finish that one. Moby Dick is great, btw. And so is White-Jacket; but I realize not many would share my love of Big Mel. Did Shatner, on his own, admit the books were ghost written? If I remember, when they first came out, by way of omission, he kind of presented them as being written by him. I'm sure they've earned enough money to make a Ferengi blush.
I think the standards for how ghostwriter are credited have changed over the years. I think they were originally presented as having been written by him, but that was common at the time. When that changed, the authors' names on the covers of the books changed right along with them.
@@LiterateTexan Thanks for the reply. I just remember how, back in the day, the Tek (?) novels first start rolling out, and he was making the rounds on late-night talk shows, even the hosts woulf smile and kind of roll their eyes or poke a little fun at him (with regard to the. novels). I've never read any of them, so I'm not one to judge. I remember in one video you mention the Spock/Kirk romance (?) fan fiction; now that's a trip. I remember, decades ago, Comedy Central (the Daily Show?) poking fun at them, and showing drawings. Not to ramble on too much, but I do remember one ST episode (written by Ted Sturgeon, I think) in which Kirk gets a back/neck rub from a female, and then mistakenly believe Spock (?) gave it to him. I'm not really a Trekkie/Trekker, but I do love both the original and the Next Gen. Again, sorry for rambling. Cheers.
I have to agree that it's probably true about the sequels to Lonesome Dove. I read the second one years ago but I could not tell you what happened in it, it was so forgettable. Dan Simmons would be my choice for the question regarding being unable to finish a book because you didn't like another one of theirs. I read the Terror and *barely* got through The Abominable. He just gets so lost in the weeds with descriptions of things that don't matter. I would skip entire chunks of pages because he's just going on and on about the minutiae of mountain climbing equipment. Not to mention The Abominable is 673 pages long and *nothing* interesting happened until two-thirds of the way through. I love horror but can't bring myself to read the highly praised Summer of Night solely because it's by Dan Simmons. I can't do that dude again lol
I started The Terror and liked it, but it was long, and I never finished it. The McMurtry books will get folded into my project of reading all his books, which seems worthwhile to me.
Hey, Randy Ray! 🤗 I had to look up Emily Henry. I started reading Happy Place last year. I was unable to finish it and I don’t have an answer as to why. 🤔 I was really liking it. I know you read it, though. I tried to read Moby Dick about 4 times. I finally did it this past October, I believe. I have started The Count Of Monte Cristo 15 years ago…. Unfinished. My bad!!😂 Thank you for the tag, buddy.
Good stuff!
This is a great tag 🏷️
It was a lot of fun!
In Search of Lost Time. I would need some serious amphetamines to finish that one. Moby Dick is great, btw. And so is White-Jacket; but I realize not many would share my love of Big Mel. Did Shatner, on his own, admit the books were ghost written? If I remember, when they first came out, by way of omission, he kind of presented them as being written by him. I'm sure they've earned enough money to make a Ferengi blush.
I think the standards for how ghostwriter are credited have changed over the years. I think they were originally presented as having been written by him, but that was common at the time. When that changed, the authors' names on the covers of the books changed right along with them.
@@LiterateTexan Thanks for the reply. I just remember how, back in the day, the Tek (?) novels first start rolling out, and he was making the rounds on late-night talk shows, even the hosts woulf smile and kind of roll their eyes or poke a little fun at him (with regard to the. novels). I've never read any of them, so I'm not one to judge. I remember in one video you mention the Spock/Kirk romance (?) fan fiction; now that's a trip. I remember, decades ago, Comedy Central (the Daily Show?) poking fun at them, and showing drawings. Not to ramble on too much, but I do remember one ST episode (written by Ted Sturgeon, I think) in which Kirk gets a back/neck rub from a female, and then mistakenly believe Spock (?) gave it to him. I'm not really a Trekkie/Trekker, but I do love both the original and the Next Gen. Again, sorry for rambling. Cheers.
@@unstopitable I remember that episode!
Funny Story is her newest one.
I saw that right after I made this video!
I have to agree that it's probably true about the sequels to Lonesome Dove. I read the second one years ago but I could not tell you what happened in it, it was so forgettable. Dan Simmons would be my choice for the question regarding being unable to finish a book because you didn't like another one of theirs. I read the Terror and *barely* got through The Abominable. He just gets so lost in the weeds with descriptions of things that don't matter. I would skip entire chunks of pages because he's just going on and on about the minutiae of mountain climbing equipment. Not to mention The Abominable is 673 pages long and *nothing* interesting happened until two-thirds of the way through. I love horror but can't bring myself to read the highly praised Summer of Night solely because it's by Dan Simmons. I can't do that dude again lol
I started The Terror and liked it, but it was long, and I never finished it. The McMurtry books will get folded into my project of reading all his books, which seems worthwhile to me.