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5 comments:

  1. This blog is impressive, not that I'm easily impressed as I'm pretty certain you'd say that you still have a lot of books to read. But really though, I spent the entire morning going through each review you've made, some of which I completely disagree with, but nonetheless, it has been a great experience going through the inner workings of your mind, which, if i do say so myself, is your best feature yet.

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    1. Alexis, thank you for the enthusiasm in going over this pretentious blog. This blog is a mere supplementary blog I started up when Goodreads started deleting reviews without consulting people. As it happens, I sadly wasn't able to transfer most of the reviews. I am curious as to which points you disagreed with (making a wild guess, that would be with Murakami or Salinger perhaps?). I always like those who challenge my world views both in books and in people.

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  2. I would never use "pretentious" to describe this blog.

    Am I that transparent? I completely agree with your thoughts on Murakami because I hated Norwegian Wood. I disagree with Salinger though but it's probably because we read him at different points in our lives. I read Catcher during the latter part of my grade school years so Catcher easily became one of my favorites. I hate John Green, well hate is a strong word, probably "annoyed with" would be better, but I understand that a lot of people nowadays live vicariously through his works. I hate Levithan but it's only probably because he always makes me.... sad. That's about it for YA.

    Tagore always seemed a bit patronizing to me. But I always liked how inadequate he made me feel because I've always seen his writing as elegant. But I never read any of his works twice.

    I saw Silmarillion on your list. I guess I have to check your Goodreads account to check your review out. I read Silmarillion more than a decade ago and it's always been the standard I measure every book against.

    To be honest, there are still a lot of authors here I haven't read like Silverberg or Orson Scott Card. Still a lot I have to read and learn I guess, thanks to you. I can go on about other books you've read as well but I never give brilliant reviews because I always "feel" more than I can enunciate or put into words. You do it so naturally though.

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    1. That wild guess was precedented. :) A lot of people I know loved Murakami! His door stoppers are peppered with digressive plots. It never grew on me. Your point on Salinger is correct. It's a book I wished my teen self would have read. And well, you've read my thoughts on John Green.

      Silmarillion is one of my landmark books. It preserves my appreciation for the fantasy genre, just as how To kill a Mockingbird seems to figure as the literature that serves, sufficiently enough, as my moral compass at times. As for reviewing them, it would be something I do not even think of doing given my sheer dearth of capacity

      I started writing reviews sometime in college. The academic output was tedious. I had to write these reviews not for mere pleasure but to preserve what little writing style I had, and end which in law school I find more needed to be aptly done in case I ever pen my 'own' decisions. :)

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    2. I also balk from reviewing those I really like, especially if its perfunctorily considered a 'classic'.

      Again, thank you Alexis for reading this. ;)

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