Midyear Judgment: 5 Bad and 5 Good Books Read in 2024
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- What were 5 worst and 5 best books I've read in 2024 at the end of the midyear? No rereads.
THE BAD
5. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (2019)
4. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (2018)
3. Blackouts by Justin Torres (2023)
2. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food by Fuscha Dunlop (2023)
1. Loved and Missed by Susie Boydt (2023)
THE GOOD
5. Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2021)
4. Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco (1959)
3. Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis (1985)
2. From Hell by Alan Moore (1989)
1. King: A Life by Jonathan Eig (2023)
Finished
Print: 25
Digital: 39
Audio: 30
Novella: 19
DNF: 10
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A very interesting take on the tag 🏷️ 👏
Well hope rest of year is better reading
I liked this mid year format Greg. Though I am intrigued by Invitation to a Banquet haha
Maybe you'd like it.
Loved King, hated that one about Chinese cooking and my vote reflected that 😁. I think you ought to have a judges’ cloak and a gavel. Please stand for his honour Book Judge Greg 😂
Sorry you had some crappy reads for the first half of the year. I think I will give them a skip! I loved From Hell the movie, would be interested to "read" the graphic novel. Great video Greg!
Surprised _not_ too see _Shanteram_ upon your "Bad List" 😅
Shanteram was a DNF. It probably would have made it though if I had finished it.
Those bad books do sound quite bad. I'll be sure to avoid them. Thanks for your honest analysis of them.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances is one of my top books for the year. I was pretty surprised by it and even did a video about it.
I have more Adrian Tchaikovsky waiting in the wings.
@@anotherbibliophilereads I'm excited to hear your thoughts when you finish them.
You basically described every Fredrick Bachman book. 😂 I also didn't like The Great Alone. I found it to be trauma for the sake of trauma. Tchaikovsky is on my list of authors to read, but I haven't gotten to him yet.
I very much doubt I will be picking up another Bachman book. Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time is truly great. Unless you’re squeamish about spiders.
Maybe feed the crappy reads into AI, and let it spit out a Norwegian crime caper about a feckless bank robber who holds up in Chinese-food restaurant in Alaska, and ends getting adopted by a grandmother who's caring for her granddaughter, but then make the bank robber have a gay affair with a Sasquatch, with black-out naughty parts. Either way, it makes for miserable reading. I don't know how you got through the slog, bro.
I put your suggestion into ChatGPT. I think the AI was smoking something good.
@@anotherbibliophilereads Hilarious.