Title: No one belongs here more than you
Author: Miranda July
Recommended by: Ben Moss (kind of)
Ben Moss linked me to the author's website (http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/) and that made me think, I really like short stories, and I like this website. So I checked out the book and read it. Side note: I was the first person to check it out from my library, the date stamped on the edge of the book by the library was the day I picked it up, it was a cool feeling.
The book was pretty good. I really like the way she writes, and I love short stories, there's so much to think about in small chunks. The way she writes really reminds me of my friend Kelly's blog. But.... there was one thing, just one thing. Almost all of the stories ended up being about homosexual relationships, and I just wasn't expecting it. Seriously, a story would go on for like 10 pages, just talking about some person, and their life, and how they really like to eat soup, or repair radios or whatever people do, then the next thing you know, they're in a homosexual relationship, I just always never saw it coming.
Recommendation: 6/10, I really did like her writing style, but the website was more awesome than the book, so I feel (slightly) tricked.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007
A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
Title: A Man Without a Country
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Recommended by: Glenn Files (my father!)
This book as well was not so much recommended as one day my dad came up to me, and told me that he had found this book in a cheap book sale. Anyway, both my father and I are big Kurt Vonnegut fans, but I was kind of weary of this latest book that had come out.
The book took quite a different route from much of Vonnegut's other work, because this book was closer to a set of memoirs than the usual fare. It was still pretty well done, and I feel Kurt Vonnegut's writing is amazing, reading the book seems more like a conversation than anything else. Still, as far as it goes, I don't much like books making political points, and enjoyed this far less than the average Vonnegut.
Recommendation: 6/10, it felt like a good insight into the mind of Vonnegut, and like you were hearing it from the man himself, but, given a pile of his books, it would probably be the last one I would pick up.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Recommended by: Glenn Files (my father!)
This book as well was not so much recommended as one day my dad came up to me, and told me that he had found this book in a cheap book sale. Anyway, both my father and I are big Kurt Vonnegut fans, but I was kind of weary of this latest book that had come out.
The book took quite a different route from much of Vonnegut's other work, because this book was closer to a set of memoirs than the usual fare. It was still pretty well done, and I feel Kurt Vonnegut's writing is amazing, reading the book seems more like a conversation than anything else. Still, as far as it goes, I don't much like books making political points, and enjoyed this far less than the average Vonnegut.
Recommendation: 6/10, it felt like a good insight into the mind of Vonnegut, and like you were hearing it from the man himself, but, given a pile of his books, it would probably be the last one I would pick up.
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