Comments on: Book Review: The Historian http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/02/17/the-historian/ Crafting the Super-Natural Life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:56:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Summer http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/02/17/the-historian/#comment-267 Summer Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:17:24 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=43#comment-267 You are so right on about this book. I've had 25 pages left for about three months now. Never not finished a book.....until this one. Painful. You are so right on about this book. I’ve had 25 pages left for about three months now. Never not finished a book…..until this one. Painful.

]]> By: Katherine http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/02/17/the-historian/#comment-122 Katherine Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:39:06 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=43#comment-122 I was just connected to your blog a couple of days ago. So, belatedly, I MUST comment on your review of The Historian. I, too, was lured into reading it. I even BOUGHT it as soon as it came out, the very first time in my life I have every paid for a new hardback book of fiction, because I heard an interview with the author and I thought it sounded great! It was terrible. Terrible terrible. Hilariously awful. You have summed up the ridiculousness of the book with the passage you quoted. And the premise was NOT what I thought. It's as if the reviewers hadn't read the book. I guess I'll go back to my non-book-buying ways. I was just connected to your blog a couple of days ago. So, belatedly, I MUST comment on your review of The Historian. I, too, was lured into reading it. I even BOUGHT it as soon as it came out, the very first time in my life I have every paid for a new hardback book of fiction, because I heard an interview with the author and I thought it sounded great! It was terrible. Terrible terrible. Hilariously awful. You have summed up the ridiculousness of the book with the passage you quoted. And the premise was NOT what I thought. It’s as if the reviewers hadn’t read the book. I guess I’ll go back to my non-book-buying ways.

]]> By: Esther http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/02/17/the-historian/#comment-117 Esther Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:15:50 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=43#comment-117 Girl I'm still laughing over here over your comments about The Historian. I finished it about 2 months ago and I kept thinking MY GOD this will never end...but I had hopes that at some point it would "really" pick up - uh, no. I really was disappointed with this TOME...lol I also laughed out loud at the comment about kay jewelers, gold, vaginas - absolutely FANTASTIC ;-) Girl I’m still laughing over here over your comments about The Historian. I finished it about 2 months ago and I kept thinking MY GOD this will never end…but I had hopes that at some point it would “really” pick up - uh, no. I really was disappointed with this TOME…lol

I also laughed out loud at the comment about kay jewelers, gold, vaginas - absolutely FANTASTIC ;-)

]]> By: The Worsted Witch » Good Things http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/02/17/the-historian/#comment-115 The Worsted Witch » Good Things Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:50:01 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=43#comment-115 [...] As far as tree-hugging goes, heaven knows the hub and I aren’t perfect. In fact I’m pretty sure there are things we continue to do that are downright ungreen. *cough*chekhovhasawaterfountain*cough*. Not that we don’t try, of course. (And by “we”, I mean mostly me unless I look at the hub with my features HIEROGLYPHIC WITH TERRIBLE MEANING.) As the faboo Umbra of Grist says in her Consumption Manifesto, however, feeling guilty only makes you sad. So don’t sweat the small stuff—focus on what you CAN do, rather than what you can’t. [...] [...] As far as tree-hugging goes, heaven knows the hub and I aren’t perfect. In fact I’m pretty sure there are things we continue to do that are downright ungreen. *cough*chekhovhasawaterfountain*cough*. Not that we don’t try, of course. (And by “we”, I mean mostly me unless I look at the hub with my features HIEROGLYPHIC WITH TERRIBLE MEANING.) As the faboo Umbra of Grist says in her Consumption Manifesto, however, feeling guilty only makes you sad. So don’t sweat the small stuff—focus on what you CAN do, rather than what you can’t. [...]

]]> By: Jean http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/02/17/the-historian/#comment-114 Jean Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:50:11 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=43#comment-114 Dammit you're making me feel like I've wasted 16 good dollars on it. Dammit you’re making me feel like I’ve wasted 16 good dollars on it.

]]> By: Anna http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/02/17/the-historian/#comment-110 Anna Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:06:45 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=43#comment-110 Yep. Read it. Hated it. Yep. Read it. Hated it.

]]> By: stephanie http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/02/17/the-historian/#comment-107 stephanie Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:40:32 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=43#comment-107 Oh dear. I've already failed once to make it pastt he first few pages of this book and now it looks even less likely that I will ever read it. Too bad because it could have been so interesting - it had a nice premise. Oh well.... So - what do you think of the new "yellow" cars? The ones that run on (what I am assuming from the commerical) corn based bio-diesel fuel. Are the "yellow" cars really "green"?? Oh dear. I’ve already failed once to make it pastt he first few pages of this book and now it looks even less likely that I will ever read it. Too bad because it could have been so interesting - it had a nice premise. Oh well….

So - what do you think of the new “yellow” cars? The ones that run on (what I am assuming from the commerical) corn based bio-diesel fuel. Are the “yellow” cars really “green”??

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