“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” Second best John Green book so far, and one of the best books I’ve read this year. Considering that it’s only April, John Green has forced me to set my standards high. That rocks. Like in many of his other novels, Paper Towns is about a boy (Quentin Jacobsen) who loves a girl (Margo Roth Spiegelman–what a name). What I LOVED about this one, is that as the book goes on, Quentin realizes […]
They Eat Puppies, Don’t They? by Christopher Buckley
Another Christoper Buckley satirical novel. In this one, Washington lobbyist, spin doctor and all-around sleazy dude “Bird” McIntyre has been tasked with creating anti-Chinese sentiment in order to increase the defense budget and therefore benefit a weapons manufacturer. To do this, he teams up with a Angel Templeton, who has a sharp brain, long legs and no morals. Together, they create a rumor that the Chinese have poisoned the Dalai lama, and everything goes to hell from there. Like most (all?) of Buckley’s novels, the characters are basically […]
Notes to Boys by Pamela Ribon
I started reading Pamie.com in high school. It was one of the first online journals I ever followed (back in the dark days of 2003). While the others that I discovered at the time (Velcrometer, Tomato Nation) have fallen off my radar, I still follow everything Pamie writes with a religious fervor. While I, of course, love her fiction, I’ve always like her true stories best. She has mentioned countless times in her blog how she used to write incredibly long letters to boys, letters […]
Hell House by Richard Matheson
Creepy, creepy shit. Richard Matheson absolutely deserves his reputation as a king of horror. Hell House made my skin crawl, and I could not put it down. I seriously think I read this whole thing in maybe three or four sittings. A rich old dude named Rolf Rudolph Deutsch (great rich old dude name) bankrolls an expedition into a haunted house previously owned by an evil guy named Belasco. Old rich dude wants proof that life exists after death, so he sends in a medium (Florence), […]
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?” Meh. Not that great, but not horrible. You have to concede to the Katherine thing, even though it’s silly, or don’t even bother trying to read this one. Colin’s dated 19 Katherines. He will eventually explain every one of them to […]
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.” A lot of the reviews I read about Gone Girl boiled down to: this book was really well written but I still hated everything about it. I can see that. Nick and Amy, the married main characters of the story, are both horrible, despicable people. Really. I’ve rarely hated a character as much as I hated these two. Amy Dunne […]
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