the average american male
Wow, this is a good’un. A cool front cover, not that many pages (250ish), tiny chapters (the first is called ‘Christmas with Mom and Dad’ and the word count is 3 ‘Same old bullshit’) perfect. It gets better. Apparently it sparked a youtube storm… which is probably a load of bollocks as I haven’t had chance to check it out yet… but the story is about a guy thats young enough to know what he wants in life (sex) and old enough to know what he doesn’t want in life (commitment… and a partner with a fat ass). This book is absolutely incredible, I only bought it today and have read half of it already and I don’t want it to ever end. If this was a blog or a channel on youtube, I’d check it out every day for years. Women need to read this to know how we (men) think… and men need to read this to laugh at how fucking ridiculous we are and confirm that we’re not alone. Oh and the paper is average, loads of dialogue (makes for quick reading), smallish font (boo!) … standard margins… nothing special on the formating front but the subject matter is worth it.
A full 5 stars awarded. If you don’t buy this book, you are an arse.
Edit: a youtube frenzy? uhh no. However the clips are funny:
Atomised This grabbed my attention probably because of the ‘3 for 2′ sticker on the front and a black n white blonde in panties. Its a meaty read for me at well over 350 pages of not particularly good paper, however the linespacing is ok, and the margins are decent. There doesn’t appear to be a lot of dialogue in the read, which makes for lots of paragraphs of unappealing chunky text. ergh. I read the back cover (a rarity for me) and found the storyline interesting, plus its been/being made into a ‘major film’ so the sticker on the front cover tells me… and with that sticker comes lots and lots of quotes from influencial sources, further convincing me that it’ll be worth me time purchasing. Fair enough … however I swear the girl in panties did more for me than anything else. I might read this if I ever have enough time on my hands, or catch a terminal illness. Better still, I might buy the DVD and tell everyone I’ve read it.
The Raw Shark Texts
This book took a bloody long time to get on here. Why I’m not sure, because I’ve been stalking it in Waterstones for aaages… waiting for it to come up in a ‘3 for 2′ offer no doubt (like it did in Leeds, when I ’should’ have bought it) Grrr. anyways….
this is like a picture book with text… formatted wonderfully… loads of effort gone into making it diverse and interesting. With each turn of the page you’ve no-idea whats coming next… and that’s without reading a word of the story. This is a grand book. A real non-readers book. I will buy this in its hardback version, cause I’m not 100% certain that they’ll continue the formating in a paperback version (I hope they do cause its kinda key to the storyline) … click the cover above and read about it. The story has got flavours of the Matrix and Memento.
The Turning
Not read this yet, but glanced at a few chapters… and messaged the author… I’ll repost my words here:
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well guess what? I found myself sat in Starbucks hugging a hot chocolate and flicking through the pages of a little black paperback offered up at the counter. I had time to kill so, what the hell etc. I speed-read through a few chapters and got the jist of it, enough to slow down at all the right points of course And its there that I got a ‘moment of clarity’ as I like to call it. (I get these ‘moc’s from time to time… its my little metophorical ‘lightbulb above my head’ if you will)
It stemmed from reading the way that you wrote ‘fiction’ crammed with ‘faction’. Those little sentences of natural logic and similars, made me think a bit. Y’see I’ve been collecting brain spillage for a number of years, and amassed a fair clumpage fit for no-one cept me and that odd guy in the corner of the pub on a tuesday evening when everyone else has far better things to do etc. It was good to read, and I’m not much of a reader, so thats quite a compliment I think…. oh, or is it? bugger… I’ll carry regardless…
Sooo… anyway… I’m thinking that i’ve been inspired, but in what way I’m not entirely sure… cause its not to write, as I’ve been thinking that for days… and its not from subject matter, cause that would be plagiarism (and Dan Browns already covered that one)… I think its inspiration for a use for all those years of random dribble and theories of me, collected from too many £2.79 bottles of screw top cheap red wine and lying on my back in the middle of the night trying to spot Satellites without my glasses on.
Anyways… I’m losing it I think… either way, I’ve not read the book yet, but wanted to say that I’ll probably buy it and read some more. I find it… refreshing? yeah, thats a good word for it.
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So there you have it. I bought it, the last one on amazon.co.uk I believe. You can still buy it second hand there I believe. Its not arrived yet, when it has, I’ll fill out all the formatting tags.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull wow, this is a stunning book, its perfect. small enough to fit in your pocket, cheap enough to buy if you’re skint (£6), good paper, great formatting, only 87 pages and half of them are full page photos, can be read in under an hour… and… it has the best story ever.
I first grabbed this offa my mate about 16yrs ago… then I was 17 or so, I thought I knew everything, yet hadn’t actually achieved anything, loved skateboarding and wanted to help people in life. Now I’m 34, know I know nothing, achieved a few things, love skateboarding and still want to help people in life…. and this little book hit me in the face like a wet trout. Seriously, its the sort of book that russell grant could have written, because it applies to everyone that has a dream to achieve something in their life… and for those that have a passion that needs constant effort and commitment to continue working towards that dream. This is beautiful fiction imo… click the picture to read the amazon comments. I very often give this book as a gift to my friends. A truely golden book.
And its there that I got a ‘moment of clarity’ as I like to call it. (I get these ‘moc’s from time to time… its my little metophorical ‘lightbulb above my head’ if you will)
