Loved it. I miss Zafon already. But, maybe he'll never really be gone.
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Mountaineerdave finished reading The labyrinth of the spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
Mountaineerdave reviewed The labyrinth of the spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
Mountaineerdave reviewed Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Classic... that I absolutely disliked from page 5 forward...
3 stars
A slog. The idea I get, but ugh. I hated the writing style, the way it progressed. I just did not like much of this book at all. Which is probably why I recall nothing about it from high school when I first read it 3x years ago.
Mountaineerdave rated Fahrenheit 451: 3 stars

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books …
Mountaineerdave reviewed Live by night by Dennis Lehane
Problems, and then... alright
3 stars
I have some real problems with this book. It ended okay, earned, perhaps, but to get there, some truly unearned and incoherent stuff has to happen. And jiminy can Lehane just once describe a thing and leave the similes alone? At least the simile should make sense.
The story, at the end, I enjoyed. But, the beats? The rhythm? Not so much.
Mountaineerdave reviewed Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Mountaineerdave finished reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Goodness. I have thoughts, but how to express them. Through interpretive dance, or perhaps by writing my own novel, one of a descent into madness motivated by love, love lost long ago and stolen back more recently, a love whose terrible indecency makes it hard to call love... Or perhaps, I simply read the book and love it fully.
Mountaineerdave started reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
I've started this book a couple different times, always putting it down at some juncture. I just read the "Forward" and am absolutely bedeviled by the language Mr. Nabokov uses. I know I will love the book when I finally finish this time.
Mountaineerdave reviewed Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mountaineerdave finished reading Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mountaineerdave reviewed A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Eye-Opening, and all too familiar
4 stars
You would never know that we are only 100 years from having had nearly an entire state taken over (3, actually) by the Ku Klux Klan. Worse, the way DC Stephenson is portrayed in this book sounds like some crazy "billionaire" lunatic I had the misfortune of watching on television tonight. Alas... they all get theirs in the end, right?
Mountaineerdave reviewed Carnival Monster by Selena Winters
I’ve always chased thrills—dark, risky, and dangerous—because it's the only way I feel alive after …
ugh
1 star
I got about 70% through this miserable, horribly written tale and skimmed the rest so I didn't take on any more bad habits from reading this poorly written example of... drek.
Mountaineerdave rated The Shadow of the Wind: 5 stars

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of …
Mountaineerdave rated The Prisoner of Heaven: 4 stars

The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Barcelona, 1957. It is the week before Christmas in the Sempere & Sons bookshop. Daniel Sempere is happily married to …