Summertime is here and it's time for reading some kewl stuff...or just skimming some new books if you wish...or using them as props for conversation? Anyway-- here are some of the recent reviews I posted on Amazon.com also check out my new PLOG -- kind of a blog and post on Amazon.com.
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 Excellent if you haven't read it do now-- or reread it this summer, June 22, 2006
Are you in marketing...do you have any kids...are you under 50? Then if you've never read this book you have to. If you have --reread it this summer. It's great because it tells you about poopular culture/fads and trends in a novel format. Doug Coupland is BRILLIANT....It's a salute to the generation born in the lat 50's and 60's -- Andy, Clair and Dag are all great characters adrift in the California desert....author Coupland talks about McJobs -- and nuclear waste and mall culture and more...dark yet easy to read-- not foreboding-- kind of dark comedy-- why didn't someone option this for a movie??? Do it now...On the back cover Cosmopolitan called it a modern day Catcher in the Rye and in retrospect that's not a bad description -- enjoy fun summer reading....
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Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
Edition: Hardcover |
| Price: $16.98 |
SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING is a big departure from Amy Tan's fascinating novels that explore lives of mothers and daughters -- JOY LUCK CLUB and more....this 474 page tome is oh so long...and to be honest toward the end I felt that Ms. Tan was 'putting the reader on' -- how much could she as author (or rather automatic writer channeled author' take us off her well beaten path....The most absurd segment about a reality TV Show DARWIN's FITTEST and a repressive regime SLORC --adds to the absurdity of the whole mish-mash -- note I did not say mash-up because in a mash-up the editor's have some 'feeling' in mind they are creating. Not satire, but not narative either...the book falls into the cracks of boy am I glad I didn't pay full fare to buy this one. Maybe it was an artistic departure that she thought she was well due...maybe it was a fantasy escapade? Who knows....if you have not read her other books, you may find this an escapist breeze --kind of like a snowcone with a little too much sweet syrup...To be honest I read about 375 pages and skimmed the rest...hoping for better to come....but she disappointed this reader...but then maybe that's what a good writer does-- is shake you up every now and then?
fun book.....that is what it promises to be -- diabolically funny...of course if you've ever hired a nanny yourself...it may not be as funny as she makes it out to be....because childcare is an art & science. Very NEW YORKish in some of it's humor with lots of reference to the UPPER east siders/west-siders....for those of us from the Midwest or on the West coast it may not be quite as deliciously quaint to keep reading about the rich [...] of NYC....somewhere between THE DEVIL WHERE'S PRADA and LIPSTICK JUNGLE and this book...I got lost in a miasma of making fun of New York and New Yorkers....is everyone on Park Avenue so mindless? And do you have to be young...to understand what's really important in life and love? I hear the movie is already in the works...go ahead skim a few of the last chapters...and then read the ending first if you want...you'll get the idea....and of course you probably guessed the ending anyway...but maybe you thought it would be meaner than it is .....fun anyway....but let's hope some of these people depicted really get a life
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