Resurrected Jetpunk Blog Server: The Book Reviews Project

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An Announcement for the Resurrected JetPunk Blog Server

Between last December and January, an idea flashed in my head. However, I wasn't that much involved in the blogging community back then. Yesterday, as I remembered my idea, I thought that it would have been an opportunity if I summoned it here. Let's call it "the Book Review Project".

There isn't any specifical type of strict rules. Just keep in mind these five basic rules:

1) Everyone can review anything, poetry or fiction, from any author you want. You could review, for example, your favorite book, as I did in January, or anything else that caught your attention.

2) Don't feel pressured: if you don't want to be involved, don't participate. Participation isn't mandatory.

3) You can review just one book per person.

4) Don't force anyone to participate or to review a certain book.

5) You don't necessarily have to read the books that others review. You can, but you haven't to.

Remember that this is just an idea. If you don't like it, feel free to tell me.

dianalove

7 Comments
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Level 74
Jul 19, 2023
There's a book I'm in the midst of reading right now, but I fear I'll be unable to finish it. I'm only 1/3 of the way through but it's been like 2 months now.

However, I may be able to use this as motivation to finish the book before the school year begins!

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Level 68
Jul 20, 2023
Lol, I tried to read Don Quixote and died of boredom
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Level 67
Jul 20, 2023
I can relate. It's a good book, just very, very dense and full of archaic language.

There are some Bible translations that spin everything into easy-to-read, modern English—I imagine publishers could make a fortune if they did that with other old works.

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Level 68
Jul 20, 2023
Yeah, I think the vocabulary is the main problem. It takes double the time to read for me because I need to understand what happened. I think I reread a couple of chapters because I had no idea what happened.

Other than that, the story is quite interesting, and I don't mind how slow it is, a criticism I've heard of the book.

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Level 74
Jul 20, 2023
I took a college class entirely on that book, so I’m a bit partial to it as I enjoyed the class. But even in a full semester long course, we had to speed run the last maybe 50-100 pages because of how dense (and perhaps long, but mainly dense) it is.
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Level 67
Jul 20, 2023
Cool idea. I'm currently reading the Divine Comedy and am almost finished; I think I'll review it in concurrence with an overview of all the layers.
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Level 74
Jul 20, 2023
I’d be very interested to read that review.

That’s something I also ought to add to my bucket list of reading