I’ve read a couple of Neil Gaiman works before. I loved Ocean and the End of the Lane and had mostly good feelings about Neverwhere and that book, and its protagonist Richard Mayhew, has grown on me over time. (In fact, I suggest reading my friend Ale’s review from this year to get a better take on the book without the depression funk I was in in 2013). Late last year I saw badkittyuno’s review of American Gods and decided that it would be my […]
But I wanted to see him go to jail!
Jordan Belfort — what an asshole. Such an asshole, in fact, that he ends his book right before anything truly terrible happens to him. Therefore the reader must wait until he releases his next book to find out how exactly the law punishes him for his asshole-ness (my guess–barely, if at all). “They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” — everyone in this book In case you’ve somehow missed the commercials for the Leonardo DiCaprio movie (which I haven’t seen, and don’t […]
What a Mind F&*!
I have never in my life wanted so badly to flip to the back of a book and read the ending. I never do that, but I was majorly tempted here. Luckily, I listened to the audiobook, which prevented me from doing so. Otherwise, I might not have been so strong. “Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you […]
Focuses as much on the teacher as the speaker
I picked this up thinking it was the basis for the Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush movie, which I liked quite a bit. It’s not–it was actually written by a descendant of Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), whose interest in his grandfather (deceased 12 years when Mark was born) was piqued by a phone call from the movie’s producers. He began digging through his family’s papers, even going so far as to pull a box of archive material down from a cousin’s attic. Here he found carbon copies […]