So here’s a weird thing. This book involves a man who’s only sexually attracted to dolphins and an old man who asks his daughter for rent money in order to buy a second sex doll. And yet, this novel was actually enjoyable compared to her other one, Tampa. Don’t get me wrong, I thought Tampa was actually pretty good, and better than it had any right to be, but it was not fun to read. This one is snappy, and funny, and oddly a sci fi book […]
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
I can’t say there’s much anything wrong with this novel at all. In fact, it’s quite good. So don’t take my 3 star rating as a knock. I give 3 stars for two reasons: one, something is as good as 3 stars allows; two, it should have been better. The latter is for books that are highly regarded or highly rated and just aren’t as good as those who would otherwise say they are. I especially like to give 3 stars to books “beloved” but […]
Brains and sex fight each other to control your life, and thank God brains get a head start before sex comes along
So this is a long dense 700 pages. What I mean by this is that even though it’s about the same length of the last novel I read, there’s so much more book here. It’s not even that there’s a lot of plot, because for being a hard sci-fi that takes place in a remote science lab on a colonized planet far away from Earth, and still reeling from the fallout of an intergalactic war, there’s very little action or adventure going on here. Mostly […]
I am Pagliacci
When I was a kid, we didn’t have a Barnes and Noble, but we did have a Books a Million. This Books a Million had a tiny and unimpressive comics section, and mostly we went there to pay Magic the Gathering. Anyhoo, I remember seeing Watchmen on the shelf and noticing it about 1000 times and wanting to but not wanting to read it. It seemed scary and intimidating. It is, in its own way, but more than anything it speaks to both a time […]
Vote? What’s so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that.
This book started off for me as a really enjoyable, but slow-moving trainride. A kind of lurching start with several pages of courtroom dialog. In fact a large percentage of this novel is nothing but back and forth dialog, often with no specific indication of who is talking (except how the characters are created). In fact large sections of this novel are even courtroom documents. The premise of this novel is kind of a heist book, which it is, but also a courtroom drama, which […]
You should employ your little grey cells
I generally like Agatha Christie novels. And I generally liked this one. In fact, it’s one of the ones I have liked the most. That said, I never like them that much. So that said…. Agatha Christie novels remind me of a long running tv show that have had multiple different showrunners. Sort of like the Simpsons, where the Conan O’Brien days were great, the Dana Gould days were ok, etc etc. Also, like tv shows, sometimes there’s a more innovative and interesting attempt to tell the […]
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