Books - What Are You Reading / What Do You Recommend?

[Irving]

Have less than 50 pages of Thomas Covenant left and can't muster up the desire to finish.

[cstone]

Have less than 50 pages of Thomas Covenant left and can't muster up the desire to finish.

White Gold Wielder

I read those books while I was in high school. They got tedious by the end.

Going back to The Giver quartet, I finished the fourth book Son today. I'm not overly keen on Lowry's allegorical battle of good and evil. Such a simplistic and brief battle with an unrealistic and unsatisfying ending. I understand that she was coaxed into writing the fourth book by her many young adult readers who just wanted some closure on the characters introduced in The Giver. Gathering Blue, and Messenger. She gives them that closure but does it in a way that reminds me this is literature for children. If you have kids, the books are worth reading and sharing with your kids (10 and up would be my guess).

I still haven't seen the movie. Waiting till it is on Netflix. I'm sure I won't like the movie, so why pay more for it?