Review 528: The Forester

The Forester by James Kraus
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I read this book to about the half-way point. I almost stopped earlier, due to major plot holes, but decided to give it more room. Then another farcical moment arrived and after another unbelievable situation that I had to quit this book. The writing style wasn’t very good, but I was willing to overlook that a little, but with all the other problems with the book, no there are much better books out there to spend my time on.

Normally I don’t rate books I don’t finish because I think it’s more me than the book, my reading mood at the time or something. This time it is the book.

I was disappointed this didn’t work out better. The book cover is nice, the title sounds like something I’d be interested in, and the overall content is dealing with the environment. Oh, I didn’t even mention how there was this message, repeating how environmentalists are naïve and misguided in not wanting clear cutting a forest, or wanting wild animals to live.

I’m just glad I got the book for free instead of paying for this. I got it free from amazon back when I had prime and there are free monthly offerings, if I remember correctly.

Brief Review 515: Rejection

Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Not a book for me. Can I say I reject this?

Really don't like the style of post-modern/meta books, which this book falls into that category. If I'd known wouldn't have tried.

Review 409: Chang and Eng

Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
My rating: 1.5 of 5 stars



This book was truly bad in so many ways. Not sure why I was so compelled to finish.

to explain myself a little: I finished this in June while travelling. I wasn't going to finish this book, but when my trip came up I wanted a book I could leave behind and not care, so I went ahead and finished this. What can I say, the author did a horrible job at writing this historical biographical story. This book was truly bad in so many ways. I got the book in March 2001, when I was in one of those book clubs that send you the book if you don't respond. For many years I thought this was a true story, a biography about the real conjoined twins, but no, this is a fictional one and poorly done at that. 

Edit (Feb.2024)

Whenever I come across this title I just cringe...it truly has been one of the worse reads in a while...although it not alone, unfortunately.