Oh! I forgot this thread was here
... mostly because deadmike hasn't posted around here in almost a month
Anyway, I finished reading
ROOM by Emma Donoghue which was a pretty fantastic read overall. The story about a kidnapped woman held captive for years in a sort of dungeon with her young child was best in the first half of the book when the world was a very confined, microscopic world inhabited by two [and a half] people. After the major turning point which was reached about halfway through the book, it seemed to lose its way a little, but stayed very interesting. I recommend this book if you read up on the premise and it seems interesting to you. The narration from a mostly well-spoken five year old was a unique perspective to tell the story from:
http://www.amazon.com/Room-A-Novel-Emma-Donoghue/dp/0316098329/ref=tmm_pap_title_0I'm burning through the book pretty fast considering the amount of free time I have to read, but,
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut isn't really living up to my expectations. I was looking for signs of the same writer I got to know in
Slaughterhouse Five and other than one character (or really, a name) that overlaps, it's a very different writing experience. I usually prefer writers that are crass, vulgar and controversial, but Vonnegut seems to be reveling in vulgarity for vulgarity's sake. And the vulgarity really isn't all that good since I'm sure what he wrote and drew in the book was shocking at the time it was published, but it's pretty tame by today's standards. The most noticeably absent thing from this book is the comedy. I really only chucked a couple times, everything else has been mildly amusing or mildly annoying. I usually nod my head in agreement with a lot of Vonnegut's more progressive statements in the book, but the way he wrote a lot of his comments on race (specifically with African Americans) had me grumbling. Anyway, I'm just not being charmed like I thought I would be by this book
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