I’ve mentioned before that I love reading histories of movies or shows — Clueless, The Princess Bride — and now I can add Seinfeldia to that list. I wouldn’t bother with this one if you don’t like the show, but if you do — this was a great read. “By 2013, Seinfeld would become the most successful show ever in syndication. Networks buy reruns in packages sold in “cycles,” and Seinfeld was the first show in history to get to a fifth cycle, taking its rerun sales through 2017—nearly twenty […]
I don’t care how inbred he was, I’m not going to feel bad for this guy
I don’t know why I bothered to read this. It was attached to my copy of What The Night Knows, as novella prequel to What The Night Knows but meant to be read afterwards. I didn’t like What The Night Knows. I wasn’t going to like a prequel about its horrifying murdering ghost guy, pre-death. But I’m also unable to NOT complete what I’ve started, so I read the damn thing anyway. So, Darkness Under the Sun tells us about Alton Blackwood’s life before he murders a bunch […]
“It’s hard out there for a fuzzy little introvert.”
I’m a fan of Amy Schumer, mostly based off the first season of her show and her real-life antics. She seems like she’d be a lot of fun, and she’s not afraid to share her opinions, which I love. I’m surprised by how much I liked this book, though. I thought it would be mostly dick jokes, and while they do appear in abundance, I found the more serious chapters to be much more effective than when she’s aiming for comedy. “I know my worth. I embrace […]
Dean Koontz, I just can’t quit you
This was not a great book. It wasn’t even very good. But it’s Dean Koontz, and you could definitely do worse for a few hours of reading. “He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.” Detective John Calvino’s entire family was murdered (along with several others) when he was a child. He ended the serial […]