amy_haynes's reviews
687 reviews

As always very well performed and full of little moments that genuinely make me laugh. Plot and characters never seem to progress from one book to the next but that's forgivable. 

I don't really understand why Huck Finn gets the preference as a classic over Tom Sawyer. I enjoyed the final quarter more than the rest, and it's very evocative of its time and place. Mark Twain is great at spinning a tale full of fascinating characters. But I definitely preferred Patrick Fraley's narration of Tom Sawyer to this. 

I could see influences of The Secret Garden and maybe Alice Hoffman's work. I enjoyed it overall though it wasn't quite as mesmeric.

A great way to start the year. It was as enjoyable and insightful reading for the second time as the first. I love a good structure and logical, methodical plan, and found the writing style very easy to read. Though I have no intention of imitating a happiness project and don't necessarily relate to the lifestyle of the author it didn't detract for my enjoyment of reading the book. 

I feel like it was aiming to be like "One Day" but with the most inelegant prose. Definitely a stylistic choice, but one I didn't enjoy. I also don't enjoy the shallow, fake, 20 something characters similar to "The Great Gatsby". Overall not for me. 

Very repetitive, not very detailed, I expected more examples and references. I've definitely read better on the topic. 

The only reason I finished this book was so I could tick it off a list, if it was any longer i would have given up. I cannot believe it got written. I cannot believe it got published. I cannot believe it made it on to various "books to read before you die" lists. It is literally a bunch of explicitly described sexual encounters glorifying all sorts of immoral and these days illegal pairings. The sentences also were incomprehensible long, I counted more than 20 clauses in 1. The only value of this book was showing me a world I would otherwise not encounter. 
Definitely not a book I would recommend. To anyone. Ever.

The protagonist, style and sense of humour are great but there's too much left unexplained about Daddy Longlegs that it kind of sits uncomfortably by the end. That difficulty aside, I enjoyed reading the book.