Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Still Here Blog

Sorry I’ve been too busy enjoying the heat wave to post. Watching gas climb to three dollars a gallon takes too much out of me for other pursuits. Stay tuned for a future post regarding all the media reports I’m seeing about how the high gas prices are not slowing drivers. Preview: Are high drug costs decreasing the cases of cancer?

In other news, I just bought the new Alice Cooper CD “Dirty Diamonds” and will give a full review soon. On the book front, I’ve read The Secret Life of Bees and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I give it four paws up. Ha ha. Get it? Never mind.

Bees: Well if ever a book had “Oprah! Pick Me!” written all over it, it is this one. Not only does it have Oprah Book Pick written on every page, but it also has “Oprah! Buy the movie rights! Produce, Direct and Star in me!” between every line. That said, it’s an OK book. Good. But not great. I was hoping for more twists, drama, etc. For example, I was hoping that it would be revealed that the little girl’s mother was the reason for June being left at the altar years ago. Things like that. No such luck. Boilerplate happy ending. But it was tempered with loss and facing the truth, so it was supposed to be profound and bittersweet. Whatever. Hope Oprah gets an academy award.

Dog: This is the (very brief) novel told from the point of view of a fifteen year old autistic boy who discovers a murdered dog and sets out to find the culprit. It was an interesting story device and in the short span of pages, there was no time to become bored with the premise. Not bad. Again, this was a blockbuster that has lingered on the best seller charts for quite some time, released in two covers: one for adults and one for teens. The book certainly has wide appeal and was good. Again, good, not great.

What is great? Great is my blog. Have you been telling all your friends about it? Hmmmm?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

alice cooper and bob dylan golf together in their spare time... they probably share from the same box of depends too.

at least i KNOW that the people who wrote and performed the music i listen to are dead.