Archive for the ‘writing’ Category
Unseen Academicals
Terry Pratchett has been writing Disc World books for a long time now. This is number 37 and has to be counted as one of the best.
British Football is a different animal all together from American Football. While we have a handful of Pro Teams, and a hell of a lot more than a [...]
March 3, 2010
Tags: academicals, american football, british football, different animal, disc world, discworld book, discworld books, family reunion, happy endings, number 37, nutt, prime reasons, puns, silliness, soccer ball, softy, terry pratchett, unseen university, volley ball Posted in: book review, fun, writing 
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Dark and Depressing. Hopeless and Pointless. Just like every other Oprah Book Club selection.
The Road is a substandard Post-Apocalyptic Epic. End of the World stories have been popular forever, but this particular kind of story has been floating around for about sixty years or so. The Road is Science Fiction-NOT General [...]
February 26, 2010
Tags: 28 days later, ad nauseam, apocalyptic story, countless times, cruel world, flashbacks, last man on earth, mad max, mushrooms, oprah book club, oprah winfrey, pet peeves, pulitzer prize, quotation marks, road warrior, sixty years, twilight zone, vermiculate, world stories Posted in: book review, philosophy, writing One Comment
Catcher in The Rye
I first read J.D. Salinger’s only novel about thirty years ago. I remember being pleasantly shocked at all the profanity and well, that’s about it. I remember liking it.
With J.D. Salinger’s death a couple of weeks ago I decided to go back and read The Catcher in The Rye again. [...]
February 18, 2010
Tags: amazing book, catcher in the rye, catcher in the rye movie, difficult relationships, holden caulfield, homosexuals, j d salinger, judgments, moby dick, perverts, prodigious amounts, profanity, ramblings, rants, stream of consciousness, teen angst, teenage self, textbook example, thirty years, ulysses Posted in: book review, fun, writing No Comments
Blogs and Memoirists
“If you write about me, I’ll sue you.” My sister always supported my desires to be a writer.
Many of my favorite books are memoirs, or sort of memoirs, since James Frey wrote A Million Little Pieces all memoirs now have to have a disclaimer page that says, these are my memories and may not agree [...]
February 14, 2010
Tags: augusten burroughs, bill bryson, blog, blogging, blogs, david sedaris, desires, facet, favorite books, handful, james frey, julie powell, little pieces, mastering the art of french cooking, memoirs, memories, occasional story, ruth reichl, sheen, telling the truth Posted in: art, blogging, writing 2 Comments
