Recommended Reading?
Feb. 7th, 2007 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primsongI am wondering what it is that makes any of you decide to add a book to your "will get to" list. I have had so many good books recommended by other folks here, but I realized for some reason this was not making me go find them (for the most part)... I can't really say what it is that makes them take up my curiosity or fancy enough to be read.
While I did find the Scarlet Pimpernel novels on the recommendation of my dear (((onone))) - more typical is what I am reading now, the Horatio Hornblower books that I picked up because I read somewhere that Winston Churchill liked them and I wondered what sort of book Sir Churchill would like. (they are wonderful, btw, and the protagonist reminds me of Churchill himself, lol).
So why does a random thing like Churchill's tastes intrigue me while I have all these other novels waiting to be read if I were to so much as sample my friends' LJs? *shrug* What makes a recommendation *really* work? I haven't a clue.
While I did find the Scarlet Pimpernel novels on the recommendation of my dear (((onone))) - more typical is what I am reading now, the Horatio Hornblower books that I picked up because I read somewhere that Winston Churchill liked them and I wondered what sort of book Sir Churchill would like. (they are wonderful, btw, and the protagonist reminds me of Churchill himself, lol).
So why does a random thing like Churchill's tastes intrigue me while I have all these other novels waiting to be read if I were to so much as sample my friends' LJs? *shrug* What makes a recommendation *really* work? I haven't a clue.
