TALKING ABOUT CULTURE AND BOOKS

• A broad-sheet /paper
• Thought-provoking / intriguing /illuminating /insightful /challenging
• A highbrow (intellectual and difficult to  understand) /lowbrow idea
• Undemanding, dreary (dull, depressed), unstimulating
• Run-of.the mill /ordinary /pedestrian
• lightweight /  trivial
• Dazzling, exquisite
• Breathtaking
• fantastic and  staggering

• A book can be:
• macabre, compelling, lugubrious, moving /poingnant
• With wry humour (ironic)
• enigmatic characters
• If you like  it  very much
• A page-turner
• You  can't put it down
• To become engaged to it
• Compulsive  reading
• It was heavy-going
• I couldn¡'t get on with it / into it
• The readership
• A bed reading book
• Memoirs