Recent Reads

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey): Brilliant. I haven't finished it yet but it is brilliant. I know what to do if I get committed to Greylands now.

The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath): Female equivalent of The Catcher in the Rye which, as some people know, I actually really like in spite of the many snide (and hilarious) comments people like Clinton have made about it in the past (he should have a book review website filled with hilar one liners about Sally Morgan and Holden Caulfield). Very similar tone filled with dry observations and kind of bland recounts of her (Esther's) sad life (it's actually only sad to her, I kind of think it's an okay life).

The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins): I was kind of disappointed to be honest... It was exciting (at parts) but it kind of lacked the emotion and exhiliration I was expecting. So many people talked about the great relationship between Rue and Katniss but I never saw it. In fact, I thought all they had was 5 minutes and that was it. I think the movie will be a lot better.

Mansfield Park (Jane Austen): I kind of hate Fanny and I've had enough of the cousin loving for a lifetime. "Keeping the bloodlines close." That's romance.

Persuasion (Jane Austen): My second favourite Jane Austen. It's kind of a long novella, it has a simply storyline but it's completely romantic and the two lovers are not cousins, thank God.

Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King): I kind of had heart palpitations after reading this. When I was a kid, I got scared of everything... And when I say "kid," I mean until I was 15 because at 15 I got scared of everything still. Watching Lost was like watching the most horrorful horror move in the world because that scared the shit out of me. Watching Desperate Housewives occasionally scared the crap out of me. Watching Round the Twist scared the crap out of me. In fact, When a Stranger Calls (the Camilla Belle one, not the original) is the scariest movie I've seen to date and apparently that's the least scary movie out of them all. But I think things started scaring me less after the age of 15 and now I love Law & Order: SVU. But reading Full Dark, No Stars scared the fucking shit out of me. Just so you know, never follow directions from ugly book store owners if they tell you to take some strange (to you) road because you WILL get raped by some huge and insane hillbilly with his cock "moving inside you like a door that needs oiling" (that is not verbatim but there's a similar line in one of the novellas in the book that will forever be ingrained in my head much like a nail).

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