Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

[Indrajit Gupta]

--- On Tue, 15/6/10, Kiran Jonnalagadda <j...@pobox.com> wrote:

> From: Kiran Jonnalagadda <j...@pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read
> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
> Date: Tuesday, 15 June, 2010, 18:00
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:15 PM,
> Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com>
> wrote:
> > I also bounced hard off book 6 of Harry Potter (half
> blood prince?)
> > after reading, with varying amounts of pleasure, the
> preceding books.
> > Gave up on the series after that.
> 
> I found book 6 the most enjoyable of the series, until book
> 7 topped
> it. Book 5 was the most annoying, and 2 put me to sleep.
> 
> I read both 6 and 7 on my phone, and many of those pages in
> the back
> of a bouncy bus, with the type so large that no more than a
> sentence
> would fill my screen.
> 
> Kiran


Book 6 was needed; it filled out and expanded on various plots half-hinted at 
in earlier volumes.