Recap of Novels 191 - 200

 

Average rating of novels 191 – 200:  3.3 stars (out of 5)

191.  ★★★½              Ender’s Game

192.  ★★★★½          The Cellis of Sarajevo

193.  ★½                     The Recognitions

194.  ★★★                 Go Set a Watchman

195   ★★★½              Stardust
196.  ★★★½              The Death of the Heart
197.  ★★                     Portnoy’s Complaint

198.  ★★★½              Midnight’s Children

199.  ★★★½              Oliver Twist

210.  ★★★★              The Princess Bride

 

 

Favorite: The Cellist of Sarajevo

Least Favorite: The Recognitions

Best Hero: Ender from Ender’s Game

Best Heroine: Arrow from The Cellist of Sarajevo

Best Villain: The Six-Fingered Man aka Count Rugen from The Princess Bride

Most interesting/Complex character: Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride

Best Subtitle (or alternate title: The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The “Good Parts” Version

Best Quotation: I’ll put it in my own words: the time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right. ~ Uncle Jack from Go Set a Watchman

Runner Up: …she is, at once, sure of two things. The first is that she does not want to kill this man, and the second is that she must. ~ narrative regarding Arrow from The Cellist of Sarajevo

Honorable mention: “Adventures are all very well in their place”, he thought, “but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.” ~ Tristran Thorn from Stardust

 

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