false 16 168 168 true 5624023 read 0 true 101062 currently-reading 0 true 101061 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76165779 Alex's review of The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
by Stieg Larsson

Oh, I'm sure he is deeply disgusted, and of course it's an indictment of 'teh evil system'... but I'm not entirely sure Larsson 'gets it.' I'm not saying that he hates women or anything like that, but that he's like a stogey old white dude trying to be 'hip' and 'liberal.' "Dragon Tattoo" IMO could only be seen as 'feminist' from the crudest and most guy-centric perceptions. The whole 'chicks getting violent revenge on their rapists' thing has been exposed as being pretty unfeminist a long time ago. Basically, it gives people permission to enjoy the rape because those responsible are punished. Its just exploitational stuff- which is fine as far as I'm concerned, but it's hardly feminism.

He doesn't really go into the mindset of misogyny either. Why and how exactly do the perpetrators of these horrible crimes commit them? Um... because they're crazy Nazis? He doesn't even give a pattern or an explanation to their acts... they're just vaguely bibically supported or something. The annoying self-righteous facts about sexual violence to women -while enlightening- added nothing to the story.

Basically, eh.

This article did a pretty good job of summing up my feelings:

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76163379 Alex's review of The Cradle: A Novel
by Patrick Somerville

Interesting. I was actually quite touched by this one. I was a bit disappointed by the end though, as my theory for a while that *SPOILER*



The plotline about the guy looking for the cradle was actually a fictionalized account created by a guilty mother. I thought this due to certain similarities between her books at what was happening in the narrative *END SPOILER*


... but I guess I was wrong. Still, I really enjoyed it. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69978571 Boswok's review of Catch-22
by Joseph Heller

Matheson is great. Love his stuff. "I Am Legend" especially.

I say take your time reading man. Speed reading is all well and good to show off to your friends, but if you really want to appreciate a work's language and concepts, you should take it slow. If you rush through thirty books and can't recall much from them after, you might as well not have read them. That's my thought anyway.

Yeah, email me any time. I always like reading people's stuff. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69978040 Boswok's review of Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

Boswok wrote: "I've got to say there was a heap of hit or miss in the Illustrated Man for me. I find myself wondering if the movie adaptation was any good when I see it in the library."

I actually caught that on tv one time. It seemed ok, not super memorable. Very 60's.
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69978075 Boswok's review of Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower 5)
by Stephen King

My favorite of the Dark Tower series. The shit awesome. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62760073 See Through: Stories (Paperback) by Nelly Reifler
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62759803 to: Austerlitz (Paperback) by W.G. Sebald
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62759485 to: The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane (Paperback) by Robert E. Howard
More fun stories from the creator of Conan. Howard's an entertaining tale-spinner and you get the impression that he takes these silly stories very seriously, but I still don't understand why so many people idolize him. Still, no regrets reading this and the Del Ray editions are all gorgeous. ]]>