I had such hopes for this one. I have a noted love of Craig Ferguson. I read and enjoyed his autobiography American On Purpose during my first Cannonball Read. Ferguson in this debut is a version of creepy but lovable, which is a combination that worked very well for me in his stint as host of The Late Late Show and works less well in this book. I’m still struggling to wrap my head around what I read and what the heck he was after, […]
H*cking finally
Lord save me from the overrated ramblings of mediocre white men. What possessed Craig Ferguson to write this? Did he just want to add “writer” to his list of credits? Was he thumbing his nose at the literary world just to see what they would publish? Had he somehow deluded himself into thinking this was good? In a weird way, reading this made me think of watching that new movie, The Front Runner, in that it made me question why it existed in the first place. […]
But what of Barry the swim instructor? Does he get a happy ending?
A few years ago (I don’t know…maybe 2007?), back when I was addicted to watching Craig Ferguson’s Late Night show, he had an interesting episode in which he sat and talked to his friend Stephen Fry. No monologue, no questions on cards, no skits, no dancing horse. Just a conversation between old friends. It was fascinating. They talked about all sorts of stuff, but what I remember most was their discussion about writing fiction. Fry had several books, their good friend Hugh Laurie had just […]
Between the Bridge and OH GOD KILL ME PLEASE KILL ME NOW
CBR10Bingo: CannonBookClub (Or should I say CBR10BINGOBINGOBINGO, because that’s a triple for me!) AlabamaPink may be our warrior queen, but she must also have been a damn saint for all of the sins she overlooked in her review of this book. She was (obviously) a far better person than I, because I just couldn’t get past all of the awfulness to say anything constructive. The good: I stopped caring after page 21 when he makes a very distasteful joke about suicide, so I skimmed through […]