Paula Nangle’s The Leper Compound seemed like a books with incredible potential, but it ended up being pretty disappointing in the end. The writing style, very loose and dreamlike, didn’t lend itself well to the material, which was harsh and unforgiving. Maybe Nangle did that on purpose, aiming for contrast, but it ended up muddled and confusing instead. The novel focuses on Colleen, a white girl growing up in the late 20th century in Rhodesia. Her mother died when she was seven, and Colleen herself nearly died of […]
And it’s over
Anyone who’s read the Odd Thomas books should have an idea what’s going to happen in the last novel of the series. Koontz hints at it for seven books, after all. And due to the mythology of these books and Odd’s personal beliefs, and losses over the years, it’s a happier ending than it should be. “Free will,” she agreed, “our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.” Saint Odd wraps up all the loose ends […]
I think you mean “Selfish Bitch Flees Alabama”
Oh this book make made so MAD! Set in the 1960s in Alabama, Mark Childress’s novel follows two plotlines/perspectives. First is Peejoe, a twelve year old boy who lives with his grandmother. One day his Aunt Lucille shows up with all of her kids — and her dead husband’s head — announcing that she killed her husband because he wouldn’t let her go to Hollywood (seriously). She shows everyone the head, even her poor kids, dumps the children with her mother and drives off to […]
I have an unpopular opinion about this one
Um, so…I didn’t really like The Westing Game. Sorry. I know a lot of y’all LOVE it and it seems like on of those childhood books that everyone remembers fondly, but reading it for the first time as a 29-year-old, it was pretty…meh. Not great. Not awful, but still…. “Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.” So if you’re not familiar with the plot, basically these sixteen residents of an apartment building […]
Oh Susannah Mio
Ah, Song of Susannah — probably the weakest link in the Dark Tower series, but still vital to the overall story line, since basically sets up the entire ending. But still. It’s not the greatest. “You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism.” At the end of Wolves of the Calla, Susannah […]
Pretty sure this book was at least 50% bullshit
A friend of mine lent me this book, insisting that it was a fantastic true story about this World War II hero who routinely snuck out of a POW camp over a period of almost five years. She was about half right — it’s a fantastic story, but I (and quite a few people who’ve actually done the research) have trouble believing it’s all that true… Young British soldier Joseph Horace Greasley (called “Jim” throughout the novel by his friends) spent about five years of World […]
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