Slaughterhouse Five

O.K., Kurt, I don't get it. Interesting history assuming that what he opened with is correct.

Hold Tight

Easy entertaining read; very typical of this factory author.

beautiful boy

The book chronicles the life of an addict from birth through early twenties as seen by the father. The author relives all his feelings during the never ending ordeal. The son still has not broken the spell of addiction.

My take-away is not much different than my thought prior to reading. Pretty well written, but an awful lot of whining.

The Kite Runner

Perhaps I missed something.

This is a very interesting book from a potentially historical standpoint, but from a joyful read - meaning for me that it moves, has a good story line and somebody must win - it sucked! Let's follow the loser - hell, I like Assef better'n Amir and Hassan is an absolute hero.

Watch Slumdog Millionaire.

July, July

Well, if that's what real folks are like then I'm particularly happy that I don't socialize. My goodness, the constant whining.

It was entertaining and under 400 pages.

To Kill A Mockingbird

What a great story. Nelle Harper Lee is an outstanding writer, I'm sorry that I'm unable to locate anything else she may have written. Interesting that she goes by Harper rather than Nelle, I assume that's to allow someone to think it's written by a male, perhaps a 60's thing.

I've never read a book after seeing the movie, so I have no comparison, but in this case I think it helped me to enjoy the story by reading it through the voices of Gregory Peck and the other actors.

Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut

Is there a limit to the amount of drugs a person can do? Where does this guy come up with this stuff?

I mentioned previously that Vonn appears to be prescient; on page 211 he describes Reverend Wright – well, actually the name is Wainwright, but really close – from Chicago, IL and his relationship to the President. He further goes on to use gravity to crush people and that the Chinese control it. Wow, what parallels to our current world – with some relaxed interpretations.

Five Finger Discount

Well, it was a family history, less than exhilarating, but her style was readable. Perhaps I should write about my childhood and all the feces I’ve consumed – and, no it was not intentional, just the benefit of a dairy farm and older brothers.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

"He wrote a story one time about an optimistic chimpanzee who became President of the United States." Wow, he wrote this back in 1973; we recently had a terrible incident about a comic and a monkey reference. Was Vonn prescient or will he be burned at the stake? Ah, who cares, his writing certainly had some flair in this little gem.

O.K., I just looked, he died April 11, 2007 at age 84, so he won't be burned - or maybe he already was. Perhaps he's taken his Galaxie somewhere special.

I look forward to reading further from Vonnegut.