Jeanne Darst recounts a life filled with wrong choices, poor decisions, and a general lack of interest from her alcoholic parents and her apathetic sisters. As might be expected, this is not a happy story, but it has it’s occasional funny bits. I can’t think of any at the moment, but I did smile once or twice. Fiction Ruined My Family is not really about Jeanne Darst, it’s more about her father and his quest to write the ultimate tell all book about Zelda and Scot Fitzgerald. By the time I finished this collection of personal horror stories I found that…
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Water for Elephants
The story of a college dropout who falls in love with a married woman. The only trouble is that her husband happens to be a homicidal maniac. He gets away with constant murder by running a circus that is always on the move. Water for Elephants is a so over the top that I found myself waiting for the clichéd ending a good thirty minutes before it happened. The madman/ring master abuses his wife, kicks dogs, beats an elephant bloody, murders countless people, and yet no one ever even thinks of trying to stop him or reporting him to local…