Adam’s Comments (group member since Jan 16, 2013)

Adam’s comments from the Readering Group group.

It reminds me of "Into the Wild", one of my least favorite books of all time.

Wait a second, I picked the last 2. It is in fact your turn!

ha!
I dropped it a while back. Ugh, too much touchy feely stuff.
I did watch the movie however. When I get shot to death I will do my best to stand up, answer the phone, and eat a cookie.

Im reading the Dark Tower part 2, starting it tonight. You feel like marathoning it?

Yeah I agree. It is all ridiculous. It seems like there is one character named "Student with no confidence". The blood and guts is nice, but speed it up.

The second half confused me. It seemed that events that then guided the plot to the next point were not well developed, merely accepted and passed along. I really like other books by this author, and the first half of this one was very good.
Whats next?

He is certainly driven by his own reason. I also enjoy his observations of the surroundings as well as his own actions.

Wait for the wierdness to begin. I think we will have more to discuss then.

This book picks up where Sex on the Moon left off. I literally was laughing out loud.
I also read a book by Neil Degrasse Tyson and he discussed the meteor from Mars that may have confirmed the existence of microbial life on Mars in the past.

What is this, A Beautiful Mind? Am I paranoid or is everything connected?

Enjoy!

Ok here we go-
It Came from Del Rio

This should be exactly what I wanted.
I will shoot a copy off to you later today, or tomorrow.

Don't grab it yet. I am already thinking of changing. This is described as a fictional memoir. I was hoping for a more spooky Halloween feeling. Let me see if i can find another one by him.
You know, since we have been sort of heavy on the almost true story genre, and not had good luck with it.

This is the next one.
Growing Up Dead in Texas

I have read a few other books by this author. One was about a group of friends that is slowly getting picked off by a mysterious monster, all around their graduation date! It was written like a screenplay and broken into three parts. It contained equal parts camp and tongue-in-cheek humor.

I am not sure what to expect from this one, my guess is the best novel ever written.

Do you think of Thad as human garbage?
He sees himself as an outsider at NASA, a group of outsiders. He has the opportunity to work at NASA and worries about money. Instead of working he steals, then says it is for love. He is selfish but it does not stop there, he is also clearly a sociopath (however that is not always a bad thing).
I wonder how Thad would be viewed through the eyes of the author of "White City".
I was even more angered when he stole that scientists moon rocks instead of the garbage ones. I hope he does not get off easy like the "Catch Me If You Can" guy, Frank Abingal or whatever...

On a non-related note; Lucas sent me a picture of a cat he adopted the other day. I responded "He looks like a poster tube!", he did not reply.

"A fucking moonrock!"

Thad seems like a dick. I am to the point where he is committed to a price for the moonrock but does not have it yet. His portrayal of Thad does not make sense to me. If Thad is this smart and driven guy, why is he selling this moonrock for such a small amount of money? I think there is a missing assumption on Thad's character. It does not add up.
The writing itself is OK. I would have preferred that astronaut love triangle story though.

Whats next dawg?
Also I didn't read the last part of Redshirts,waste of time. Dude needed and editor or an interviewer for what he was trying to do.

What the hell happened at the end? The book was going along fine, but ending it with several blog posts by a character that was essentially a throw away?

I was having so much fun until the whinny writer demanded attention.

So far, so good. There isn't much to discuss here, it is the lighthearted romp I thought it would be. I do like the absolute shattering of the 4th wall.

I will mention that I have some similar work tactics as the people in the Xenobiology lab. They attempt to stay out off the way of the Narrative of the ship by hiding in the storage closet etc, to avoid attention.
At work, when questioned by my supervisor about work topics, I always respond in the positive. "Things are going great!", "You know how much I got done last week? Expect twice as much this week!", "Mike said there was a problem? Oh that, we solved that months ago!", "Boss, I'm Killing It!" etc.

It is a psychological game I am playing with him that he doesn't know he is playing. By spinning everything to my favor, and therefore making him look good, it is hard for him to question my work.

Probably in the ass. HAHAHAHA!

Why is it that the guys in the redshirts are the ones that are always getting atomized by alien enemies? This book aims to find out why!

Redshirts, hopefully a light-hearted full tilt romp through the galaxy.

Cool. something light and airy. It is settled.

When looking at The Shining and The Clockwork Orange as films by Stanley Kubrick we have timeless classics. However, the books can only be described as average.

Do you think the books are considered classic because of the film, or would they have stuck around in the canon otherwise?

I vote Movie version. All the way.

What kind of book do you feel like reading next? I have a few in mind over a couple of genres.