Member: adpaton

If not for your outstanding review, Kilgore's book might have escaped my attention.

Thank you and regards.

posted by Toolroomtrustee at 6:42 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2009

Noticed you liked Clockwork Orange, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a group of violent kids (and also a bit dark). I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 10:12 am (EST) on Sep 9, 2009

I noted your review of Gone With the Wind and your comment about not knowing any straight men who have read it - well I'm one. I think I first read this book when I was about 15 in 1963, and I've read it again since. I wouldn't really call the book 'chick lit', although there certainly are elements of it that would fit that moniker. But I found myself focusing more on the fact that Scarlett and Rhett and several of the other characters were presented in such a manner as to become real people whose fate and actions in the face of adversity mattered to me.

There are few books that really have such a strong female person at their center. In some ways Scarlett reminds me of Dagny in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (another of those door-stoppers!). I wish there were more, and then maybe there would be more men (of any stripe) willing to read such tomes.

posted by hyperpat at 11:44 am (EST) on Aug 25, 2009

Just want to say my ribs are still hurting from reading your review of Who Switched off my Brain!

posted by bonniebooks at 1:01 pm (EST) on Apr 30, 2009

Just come across your poetical review for Miracle at Speedy Motors. What fun. I hope you do some more like this sometime.

posted by reading_fox at 9:36 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

Love your review of The Ice Soldier - based solely on the opening line: "COMBINE the literary genius of Evelyn Waugh, the story-telling skills of Alistair MacLean, the experience of Sir Edmund Hillary, and the verve and tenacity of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and the result would be something like The Ice Soldier," I MUST read this book.

posted by fannyprice at 4:13 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2009