QMBC XII: Letters From My Windmill

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.

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

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

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)

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

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

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