Free book in return for writing a review you probably would have written anyway

[strange_complex]

Like practically everyone else on LJ today, I have just signed up for Blog a Penguin Classic, and will shortly be receiving a copy of The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne to review.

I'm actually really pleased about this, because I absolutely love The Marble Faun, and have long thought I should try another of Hawthorne's oeuvres. Plus, I am blogging every book I read this year anyway, so fulfilling Penguin's requirement that I write a review within 6 weeks shouldn't be too hard. What are they going to do if I don't, anyway - send round angry Emperor Penguins to peck my door down?

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I did manage On The Road some years ago, but I must say it wasn't as I'd expected. I was assuming it would be something more like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, but it was much greyer and more depressing.

[gillywoo.livejournal.com]

i found it really hard work, and it's very unusual for me to give up on a book. Maybe this penguin book will inspire me to start "On the road" again and actually finish it.