Guest CharliePS Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Having recently returned from my first trip to Hawai'i, I decided to read a new history called "Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure," by Julia Flynn Siler. Big mistake. It is so badly written--factual errors, typos, misspellings, grammar errors, vocabulary errors, cliches, awkward sentence constructions--and that was just in the first 20 pages! I was so irritated that I knew I couldn't stand to read several hundred pages, so I took it back to the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lucky Posted October 15, 2012 Author Members Share Posted October 15, 2012 Currently, I am reading Telegraph Avenue, by Michael Chabon. It's very colorful, descriptive, and as of yet, not particularly interesting. But then, I have read only 100 pages. Many of the Amazon reviews acknowledge that it is a hard read, especially the first 100 pages, so I am hoping it will get more enjoyable to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BigK Posted October 16, 2012 Members Share Posted October 16, 2012 I just finished Brad Thor's Black List. Some might see Thor as a flag waver, think his novels have too much testosterone, or simply don't enjoy such good guy/bad guy stories. But his are well-written, and Black List informative on how the government is subverting our right to privacy.See the Politics Forum, where Lookin links to an article about a huge NSA data center being built in Utah that will allow the government to spy on us better than ever. That data center is the heart of Thor's novel when a secret shadow government of very powerful people take it over. I like Brad Thor too. I read The First Patriot and liked it so much I ordered all his books on Amazon so I could read them in order since there is 1 character (Scot Harvath) throughout all his books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
