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I'm out early from work tonight (t-minus 52 and counting) and then I'm off tomorrow and Friday (as well as Saturday and Sunday). Holy sweet g-spot, how am I ever going to manage FOUR DAYS OFF IN A ROW?
Book review behind the cut. I'm keepin' it short and sweet-ish because I've got very little time to do this, but if I don't do it now, it won't get done, and I'm forgetting shit quicker than I'm shitting shit.
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
Heartbreaking and seemingly copycat work: I paused several times to think about Carlos Eire and Augusten Burroughs. Still, hard to accept this as a piece of non-fiction. Beautifully written, it was hard to put down, even when I finished it 15 minutes ago on my dinner break.
Louis Begley, About Schmidt
I never got through the movie and now I know why--not enough sex! This book had some nearly offensive scenes in it (like, the time Schmidt climbed on his deeply asleep/sedated wife and fucked her until she came because otherwise, she never climaxed), but it also had some generic young girl/old man scenes. The book suffers from some contrived phrasing and I spent more time than I would have liked to rereading wordy paragraphs. Also, I kept thinking it was by Ed Begley. That's a distraction in and of itself, right?
Mary Lawson, The Other Side of the Bridge
A predictable small-town story of two brothers: they're rivals! Lawson does bring her B+ game, though: certain passages of this novel are still vibrant in my mind. I could have done without the crossing over of the two stories (the other being a local boy lusts after the one brother's wife, who, by the way, had a kid by the other brother, but since he was a jerkface, the non-siring brother married her because he loved her. Yeah.), and actually prefer stories written at this level (not an insult) to be more linear. This author just doesn't present it entirely successfully.
Book review behind the cut. I'm keepin' it short and sweet-ish because I've got very little time to do this, but if I don't do it now, it won't get done, and I'm forgetting shit quicker than I'm shitting shit.
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
Heartbreaking and seemingly copycat work: I paused several times to think about Carlos Eire and Augusten Burroughs. Still, hard to accept this as a piece of non-fiction. Beautifully written, it was hard to put down, even when I finished it 15 minutes ago on my dinner break.
Louis Begley, About Schmidt
I never got through the movie and now I know why--not enough sex! This book had some nearly offensive scenes in it (like, the time Schmidt climbed on his deeply asleep/sedated wife and fucked her until she came because otherwise, she never climaxed), but it also had some generic young girl/old man scenes. The book suffers from some contrived phrasing and I spent more time than I would have liked to rereading wordy paragraphs. Also, I kept thinking it was by Ed Begley. That's a distraction in and of itself, right?
Mary Lawson, The Other Side of the Bridge
A predictable small-town story of two brothers: they're rivals! Lawson does bring her B+ game, though: certain passages of this novel are still vibrant in my mind. I could have done without the crossing over of the two stories (the other being a local boy lusts after the one brother's wife, who, by the way, had a kid by the other brother, but since he was a jerkface, the non-siring brother married her because he loved her. Yeah.), and actually prefer stories written at this level (not an insult) to be more linear. This author just doesn't present it entirely successfully.
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Date: 2007-08-23 01:53 pm (UTC)From:I have read some Burroughs, but not Eire. I will have to look him up.
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