Courtney
This was a fine murder mystery but tbh, as an old-school Livejournal Rahmbamarama guy, I was really hoping this would be more fun.
Fine, but a bit too much of a slow burn for me and I'm MAD about Susan. Also it's annoying to me when King introduces 57 characters all at once and I have to keep them straight but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The first third of the book is a novelization if the film, and at first I was disappointed about it, but that ended up being the best part.
Eh it was fine, well written and mundane and not for me. But, like, can we please stop putting blurbs on the back of books that say “Hilarious!” when the book is kindof just occasionally vaguely amusing?
I've never read any Dumas before and I really enjoy his prose, but there's a thing this story does where it stops and the middle half of the book is another story (backstory?) and that was a slooogggg. I'm used to the Ballet and it was very funny to realize that the entire last chunk of Act 1 and entirety of Act 2 is like the last 10 pages of the book.
This book is fun and worth the price of admission if only because “At a Screen Actors Guild meeting, the late Ricardo Montalban told me to go fuck myself” is one of the best sentences I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
Oh man, I love Tom Hanks. The way that man just [clenches fist] fucking loves typewriters.
The FMC is insufferable, but that's a plot point and if you can get past that and the fact that Melissa de la Cruz doesn't know anything about Ohio, it's not bad.
I gave this 3 stars because I have no real feelings about it? Like, it was fine. Honestly not a lot happens in the story, anything of substance is kindof breezed past for the most part.
This book reads like an oral history told by someone who is just really excited to fill you in on their Special Interest. This includes tangents - sometimes whole chapters long - about things which may not necessarily be related to the subject at hand, but which they found in their research and thought the reader would find just as interesting as they did. Tbh I enjoyed the narrative style, though I totally get why it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
There's a scene where Wesley TheBoy Crusher barges into Data's quarters only to discover Data Morning Aftering and y'all I hated it so much THREE STARS THERE IS A CAT IN THIS BOOK
I hate Stephenie Meyer and I will read anything she deems publishable. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
That said, this was disappointingly boring.
Anyway, how about not waiting 6 years to publish your next blockbuster, eh, Steph?
This book was super fun and, in a lot of ways I wasn't expecting, just really lovely.
Enjoyed the first half a lot more than the second, and especially when he spilled the tea on Chevy Chase. Nice job.
The thing about this book is that it wasn't ‘laugh-out-loud' hilarious, which is what I was expecting from everything I'd heard about it. Now, mind, I was in no was disappointed by this. I was glad. Because rather than super hilarious fun times, the book is damned clever and smart. Which is what you want in a good satire. Loved it.
