Reading
Letters From My Windmill
by
Alphonse Daudet
O'Neills, Suffolk Street, Dublin.
23rd August 2011
One Sentence Summaries
Xavier Paddington: Is reading LFMW in English a bit like looking at a photocopy of a Monet painting and commenting that it's a bit fuzzy?
Tiger McGavin: Reviews from my mind will say it's a poor man's Dracula.
Tiger McGavin: Reviews from my mind will say it's a poor man's Dracula.
Atticus McCarthy: Aesop's fables 2.0
Carl Jameson: This will continue turning over in my mind for many years to come.
William Clay: Do the people of Camargue actually like the book?... Daudet? (Doubt it?)
Whitby Syme: Someone looking for excitement in this book will find themselves tilting at windmills.
Mycroft Webb: LFMW: I've been Moulin this over for awhile, and I like it.
Scores
Tiger McGavin: 40/83
Actioness: 3/13
Well Writteness: 9/13
Sexiness: 3/8
Quincey Morrisness: 2/10
Interestingness: 10/17
Unputdownableness: 13/22
Well Writteness: 9/13
Sexiness: 3/8
Quincey Morrisness: 2/10
Interestingness: 10/17
Unputdownableness: 13/22
Atticus McCarthy: 34/83
Interestingness: 9/15
Quincey Morrisness: 3/15
Actioness: 2/10
Execution: 10/20
Unputdownableness: 6/10
Discussableness: 7/13
Forgetableness: -3
William Clay: 40/83
Carl Jameson: 56/83
Sexy goatness: 8/10
Quincey Morrisness: 6/10
Interestingness: 7/10
Food for thought: 10/20
Well Writteness: 10/13
Aftertaste: 15/20
Quincey Morrisness: 6/10
Interestingness: 7/10
Food for thought: 10/20
Well Writteness: 10/13
Aftertaste: 15/20
Mycroft Webb: 58
Whitby Syme: 47/83
Plot: 10/20
Execution: 11/20
Characters: 15/20
Food for thought: 5/10
Extra points: 6/13
Xavier Paddington: 46/83
Quincey Morrisness: 4/15
Interestingness: 10/20
Well Writteness: 9/20
Unputdownableness: 15/20
Food for thought: 2/8
Random bonus points: 6 (for nice warm feelings)
Interestingness: 10/20
Well Writteness: 9/20
Unputdownableness: 15/20
Food for thought: 2/8
Random bonus points: 6 (for nice warm feelings)
Letters From My Windmill earned a QMBC rating of 45.85 / 83.
Nominations
William Clay
- The Affair by Lee Child
Whitby Syme
- Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans
- The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans
Tiger McGavin:
- One Shot by Lee Child
Atticus McCarthy
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Mycroft Webb
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Carl Jameson
- Outpost by Adam baker
The Voting
Book | Clay | Syme | McGavin | McCarthy | Jameson | Webb | Total |
Outpost | 100 | 200 | - | 200 | - | 200 | 700 |
One Shot | 200 | - | - | - | - | 100 | 300 |
The Kid Stays in the Picture | 300 | - | 300 | - | - | - | 600 |
Galileo's Dream | - | - | 100 | 300 | 100 | 300 | 800 |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist | - | - | 200 | - | 200 | - | 400 |
A Confederacy of Dunces | - | 100 | - | 100 | 300 | - | 500 |
The Affair | - | 300 | - | - | - | - | 300 |
Next: Galileo's Dream
Nearly: Outpost
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