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I'm about halfway through my first book of short stories and meandering thoughts, all with a comedy bent. I should finish in another 4-6 months. I work as a writer for TV and film and have written around 200 produced scripts for television and one feature film. I work almost solely in the...

Now I get it! It's sort of like getting a book written in a different language and going to all the trouble to learn that language and then you read the book only to find out it sucks making the whole enterprise pointless. Only in this instance I didn't even get to learn a new language which...

Helloooooooo, spell check. There are also other problems.

I have endured one Deaver novel. It ranks in my top three of worst books I have ever encountered. I honestly think less of a person if they tell me they like his books. He is a terrible hack.

Glorious, oh so glorious I for one relish following the various rants pro and con for this book because it makes me giggle for the same reason i think it is funny to watch someone stand in the wrong line for a few hours only to have to move to the back of the right line and wait all over again...

Chuck Pahalniuk's Haunted. Bleck! I have read all of his books. Choke, for my two-cents, is the only really decent one. The others I read because people kept recommending them to me. This year it was Haunted and, like most of his work, I found it to be dull, unispired drivel: the same bag of...

Just finished reading Runaway and it occurs to me that while there are many other good short story writer's out there, most others should read Alice and hang their heads in shame. Most novelists as well. I foolishly started reading Bernard Schlink's book of short stories right after. I adored...

Same hack, different genre.

AHHHHHHH, Billy Jack! Man alive, I too shared the view that this was an "important" film. Yikes. Made me laugh recalling that. It also makes me appreciate my father more because he took my enthusiasm in stride and respected it and listened while in the back of his mind I now know a voice must...

It does sometimes cut the other way. I read Moby Dick when I was 18 as part of the curriculum for university. I absolutely hated the book. It still ranks as one of my all time most tedious reads (and this is coming from a guy who had to read everything James Fenimore Cooper wrote). I decided in...

Eleven was great. Enough freedom from your parents to go out and play with your friends but still young enough to not be complicated by employment, girls, etc. Summers when I was eleven were perfect. Get up, eat, ride bike with friends, fish, eat more, play soccer, eat, watch TV, eat, play...

No that's not the case. My childhood was perfect. Everything was nice and rosy and people were kind and the trees were made of chocolate and there was no crime or hurt feelings. Damn kids today with their crazy hip-hop music, oh how I long for the halcyon perfection of my youth. There is also a...

I agree with what you're saying. I new that I had grown more literate and polished in my reading and analytical skills. Truly, I didn't think the books would hold the same power for me as they did. What i wasn't fully expecting was the loss of the idea and sense of the feelings those books once...

Next up so far I'm just finishing up The Book of Joe After that I am aiming to tackle Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathem Letham Debating whether or not to reread Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner somewhere in the mix. And a friend just dropped off a couple of books by Peter Carrey. I'm not even sure...

I'm still torn a bit with my thoughts about this though. I think my evaluation of them at the time I read them was on some level correct in that they spoke to me in context to my age and life experience. As I find myself pushing 40, with three kids and firmly entrenched in the mundane...

For some reason I got it into my head to revisit some of the books that had a profound influence on me as a teenager. Sadly, I neglected to factor into the equation that I had a teenagers mind when I read them. I stopped at two and will no longer revisit any of the other ones. First up was...

C'mon Stewart I'll buy the irony argument for the first post but your second post, uh-uh. As anyone who knows me will tell you, I abhor antagonism so let us return to the topic at hand and a matter where both Stewart and I agree. We both recommend The Davinci Code and Harry Potter.:D...

Well actually It would only be cheating if his post stated he was compiling a list of books he had himself read. All he said was that he thought he would come up with one himself. Obviously his intent was to use the people on this forum as a resource tool for recommendations. Not cheating. I...

You know you're right. I haven't considered Old Yeller in years and now that you have pointed it out, the field seems to have come out of left, well you know. I'm not sure what other boy-becomes-a-man-by-executing-his-beloved-dog story I was thinking of. Perhaps Gravity's Rainbow although I...

While all the names cited are ill-conceived, I still think, or would like to think, that their respective authors were working with their tongue somewhat in cheek. The creation of Zinc Chandler holds special merit because it is quite apparent that the writers truly believe it to be a "cool" name...