#book completed

[aneternalglower]

just finished reading: american psycho by bret easton ellis (399 pages)

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every chapter in this book is titled something innocuous like “Laundromat” or something like “Eating a corpse out of a dumpster on 42nd street” and every paragraph in this book goes like: “Jim Johnson walked over the table, he was wearing a navy blue wool double breasted coat with brass buttons from Armani with some hardbody, blonde, big tits, next to him. Something, something, Donald Trump, Fisher account, Ralph Lauren, Les Miserables, Dorsia, Videotapes, something, I killed a Laotian man yesterday, something, something.”

it’s good though.

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favorite quotes:

“edwin? edwin who?”

“if the midgets wanna sing, let ‘em sing”

“It’s called Dorsia.” “Yes, My brain explodes.”

“He is unusually short, Evelyn. Are you sure he wasn’t at your christmas party?”

“My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape“

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Rating: 5/5 ★★★★★

[aneternalglower]

just finished reading: choke by chuck palahniuk (293 pages)

I really liked this. I love books either about terrible people or christ-like saints who are all powerful. Technically, Victor Mancini is both. I don’t know what it is though but it falls *just* short of 5 stars. It just didn’t have that extra depth I was looking for. Worth reading, still. Finished it in like 5 hours so it’s a short read.

P.S. I fucking love the ending of this book. “Sublime” isn’t the right word but it’s the first one that comes to mind.

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Favorite Quotes:

“I’m not so much the good friend as i’m the savior who wants you to worship him forever.”

“The first time i jacked off, i thought i invented it.”

“A fire alarm is never about a fire, not anymore.”

“The government doesn’t consider a cat as comforting anybody”

“I kidnapped you.” “The poor deluded, demented thing, she doesn’t know what she’s saying.”

“This is how I must look choking in public.”

“My mother’s dead. My mom’s dead. and Paige Marshall is a lunatic.”

“Because sponges never have a bad day.”

Rating: ★★★★ 1/2

[aneternalglower]

just finished reading: tampa by alissa nutting (336 pages)

This book is really well-written. The MC is extremely hateable (naturally). It’s perspective is very engaging, making it surprisingly easy to read despite obviously being upsetting by nature, I finished it in a day. The prose is great. Some people may say this book was written for shock, that the author wrote this just to be an edgelord, or something like that, like in The 120 Days of Sodom. I think those people are wrong and they would probably say that about any book that had to do with p*dophilia or with a morally disagreeable main character. People like that, who can’t deal with more taboo subject matter, who lack media literacy, should probably stay reading whatever Coffee Shop AU fanfic they’re used to. This is like American Beauty if it was good, and if Kevin Spacey wasn’t in it.

Favorite Quote: “Like a tollbooth in his memory, every partner he'd have afterwards would have to pass through the gate of my comparison, and it would be a losing equation. The numbers could never be as favorable as they were right now, when his naivete would be subtracted from my experience to produce the largest sum of astonishment possible.”

Rating: 5/5 ★★★★★

[gustywinz-blog]

He won the presidential medal of freedom, the highest award bestowed upon a civilian! All and all, this book was filled with Dr Wayburn's opinion (a very learned one in my opinion) on conservation issues. In the end he even gives tips for conducting a successful conservation campaign, saying that it is important not to compromise and also to follow thru, among other things. I would highly recommend this book to anyone becoming a conservationist or who read "Wilderness and the American Mind" and is looking for a down in the trenches perspective on conservation. What an inspiring story!

[gustywinz-blog]

Finished what I could of this "partner" book. It wasnt quite as substance filled as "Brooks Range." More full of prose on every page instead of actual writing as with Brooks Range. I would be interested to get another one of these books in the series. Stay tuned, (have to interlibrary loan them).