by jove, 500 books with points for discussion. if that is not a reading group must, what is? ( )

So far, I'm not sure this will be a good read but I guess I'll plug along & see.
Well, I've finished it. It seemed to me that the authors didn't like a lot of the books they "reviewed" and I wasn't able to draw from it whether I would want to read many of the books or not. I did come up with a list of books I would like to at least try, though. I wasn't sure sometimes whether they were joking or serious. There of course were genre I wasn't interested in but I read it anyway to see if there was anything I might want to read. Can't say it was my favorite book, but found some useful information. ( )

A lot of interesting books, presented in clearly defined groups of topic. Found a lot of authors and titles until now unknown to me and added to my to read list. What I like about this book - it is written in a funny, witty style. ( )

There are plenty of suggestions here, some of them obscure enough to be intriguing. The authors had an excellent idea—somewhat like Nancy Pearl’s books, where reading one thing leads you to another, and then two more, and so on. However, a lot of the humor is sophomoric at best, and sometimes downright offensive. Read it for the push toward forgotten books. ( )

This book was hilarious, irreverent, and informative. One hundred and twenty book descriptions are each followed by lists of book group questions. The questions range from profound to ridiculous, sometimes changing from one to the other within the same question. Then there are hundreds of other brief recommendations. My copy is is now bristling with sticky notes marking the most interesting titles. ( )