Laurell K Hamilton likes to write porn-and judging from the format of her latest Anita Blake book, she must like watching it was well. The feel of Bullet is standard porn style, a bit of plot-sex scene-a bit of plot-sex scene-forget the plot add another sex scene-a bit of plot-sex scene. For a change up from the porn plot she ends with a bit of good old fashioned Tell, Don’t Show exposition which wraps up a number of loose ends by telling us this happened, then this happened, then that happened. The End. Laurell is kind of tired of people…
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Smile When Your Lying
Another story of sex,drugs, and rock and roll-this time of the Travel Industry. The untold stories of expats, underage sex, places that aren’t as dangerous as you think they are and more bits of odd sexual conduct in the backwaters of the world. Not surprisingly these are stories that the editors of major travel magazines and larger Sunday newspapers don’t want to fork over a lot of money to publish. Which our Hero thinks is a bad thing, after all, who wouldn’t want to know the best place to get a hummer in the third world? On more serious notes,…
Ruby’s Spoon-The Hobbit Meets Angela’s Ashes
In a novel that is not exactly historical fiction and not exactly fantasy, we trail along after an annoying 13 year old girl in a dying town whose only employers is going out of business. Set in the happy go lucky 1930s we see no one who is not in some way damaged. Among the handful of characters we find no one is particularly fun to be around. The two men we meet are weak and feeble, though one is kind enough. Most of the women of the tiny town of Cradle Cross belong to a club of Ruths and…
Cooking Dirty-Living The Life
If you could put your feet behind your head, you’d be the perfect woman. I can. She said. Want to see? That’s my favorite bit of nonsense from the wonderfully twisted chef bio called Cooking Dirty about one man’s wasted life in food service. Along the way he learns to cook meat, do endless bumps of coke, drink near lethal doses of alcohol, and have to prove that he is a really lousy pastry chef. It’s the book that Anthony Bourdain would have written if he hadn’t pulled so many punches in Kitchen Confidential. Cooking Dirty makes most of Tony’s…
American on Purpose
Craig Ferguson tells the story of his life-from being bullied as a child to being a world class drunk to being an actor and most recently a late night talk show host. Only a tiny part of American on Purpose deals with Craig Ferguson Late Late Show Host, since that is really too recent an event for Craig to fully process. Instead, it is the story a man who almost died a number of times in a number of odd and interesting ways. American on Purpose is often funny and occasionally a little bit of a tear jerker. As with…
Official Book Club Selection
Kathy Griffin is not for the faint hearted or the easily offended. But she is funny in this foul mouthed tirade about growing up wanting to be a star and never quite making it. She talks about Oprah and does an amazingly accurate impression of Oprah’s daily bellow to her adoring throngs of fans. The many showbiz stories are a lot of fun, they prove that you can claw your way to middle if you really want it bad enough. I think my favorite little bit was when she talked about being complimented by Howard Stern-as in ‘Yeah, I’d do…
Bite Me by Christopher Moore
After years of reading serious vampire fiction like Anne Rice and Laurell K Hamilton and semi-serious vampire fiction like Stephenie Meyer and Charlaine Harris I decided to give the silly side of vampires a try with Christopher Moore. I’ve only read a few of Christopher Moore’s books, but four or five that I have read all seem to take place at about the same time and in the same location. A few of the characters even make cameos, like The Clampetts stopping by Hooterville to visit the good folks of Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. I know, I’m like too…
Living on Reds, Vitamin C, and Cocaine
Well, not so much. I’ve been reading a couple of bitchin books. Kathy Griffin’s Official Bookclub Selection and Bite Me by Christopher Moore. If you are easily offended by the word fuck and all possible permutations of said word, than these are a couple of books you might want to steer clear of. I felt it only appropriate to split a review of D Lister Kathy Griffin’s book with another book. It’s kind of the way her whole life has gone. I like Life on The D List, the story of a still struggling actor/comedian in the Big Time. It’s…
Syrup by Maxx Barry
I Find an Audio Book at The Library I’m one of those people that likes book covers-I almost always judge a book by it’s cover. So I like the look of Syrup’s cover, a woman’s lips opened slightly with a straw between them. It is a cover that speaks of sex and sodas-but has an odd feel to it so I think it might also be about aliens. The Story of Coca Cola and Fukk Soda. This is another book that has a enough self reference to be both funny and annoying. It takes place in a slightly alternate reality…
A Tale of Two Brennans
I read Break No Bones the other day and found it to be a fun book. It was a mystery with the usual setup of finding bodies, suspects, and clues for the detective. On the cover it said something to the effect that this is the Dr “Bones” Brennan that inspired the hit TV Show Bones. Inspired being the operative word here. Bones on TV is a cross between a Vulcan and Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. She has no sense of humor, no interpersonal skills, and is pretty much a prototypical autistic idiot savant. She works at this…