Slog - Comments on Reading Today http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/reading_today_60 There's an open mic and two readings going on today. The readings couldn't be more different. Alexander McCall Smith, who wrote the Number One Ladies' Detective Agency, reads in Bellevue. I have tried to read his books—he puts out maybe three or four a year—and I just can't. They feel like outlines for real books to be written at a later date by a competent writer. And at Elliott Bay Book Company, Arthur Nersesian reads. He wrote a very good novel called The Fuck-Up, about a man in his twenties who is a fuck-up. He has just embarked on... Copyright 2008 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:02:26 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by xina oh! arthur nersesian rules! i hope these new books are good, i will have to check them out. i bought the fuck up and manhattan loverboy straight from nersesian himself when he was selling them in union square. i wish i was in seattle to go to the reading ~ for those of you who are, i strongly recommend it!

]]> xina http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/reading_today_60#c1152243 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/reading_today_60#c1152243 Books Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:40:59 -0800 Comment by DaiBando I've read all of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith and have developed a particular fondness for Precious Ramotswe. I agree that all the other series, particularly Portuguese Irregular Verbs, are pure dreck.

]]> DaiBando http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/reading_today_60#c1152250 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/reading_today_60#c1152250 Books Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:23:29 -0800 Comment by becky hi,

couldn't agree more about AMcCS. People keep giving me these books as gifts because I'm English, and I can't stand them. (Maybe I shouldn't admit that where my friends could possibly read it and be hurt). There are no personalities in these books, and precious little plot. I just gave away my entire collection -- 8 books, not one of which I had purchased. Why do people like him?

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