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Saturday, May 29, 2021

Recap of Novels 171 - 180

Average rating of novels 171 – 180:  3.4 stars (out of 5)

 


171.  ★★★★                Wives and Daughters

172.  ★★★½               The Country of the Pointed Firs

173.  ★★★                  Herzog

174.  ★★★★               Ratman’s Notebooks

175.  ★★                       Journey to the West
176.  
★★★½               Devil in a Blue Dress
177.  
★★★½               Sybil, or The Two Nations

178.  ★★                    Journey to the End of the Night

179.  ★★½              Hard Times

180.  ★★★                 The Golden Compass

 

 

Favorite: Wives and Daughters

 

Least Favorite: Toss-up between the two journeys: Journey to the West or Journey to the End of the Night, I didn’t like either of them.

 

Best Hero: Easy Rawlins, the hard-boiled detective from Devil in a Blue Dress

Best Heroine: Molly from Wives and Daughters

 

Best Villain: Ratman – sort of a sympathetic villain.

 

Most interesting/Complex character: Herzog

 

Best subtitle: Journey to the West: The Monkey King’s Amazing Adventures

 

Best Quotation: A man could do worse than to love his monkey. ~ Herzog


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