Books I Could Not Finish
This Is A Book by Demetri Martin
Start Date: January 13th
Quit Date: January 16th
PUBLICATION: April 25th, 2011
GENRE: Adult Humor, Non-Fiction, Adult Short Stories
SYNOPSIS: From the Renowned comedian, Demetri Martin comes his next book, This Is A Book. Many short stories from Sophocles' Publisher, to Protagonists' Hospital, all are humorous, varied, and will keep you laughing until the end!
REVIEW: NOT!!! I thought this would be a good book since it was in the Goodread's 2011 Awards for Best Humor, and some of the stories sounded good! Nope. The only funny part? The introduction. Don't discredit that, just because it was the Introduction! It was pretty hilarious, but then everything went downhill and I was bored to tears. It wasn't because he wasn't funny.You need to either have lived for decades, or be PhD educated to get some of the humor. Over my head! Recommended for 50+ looking for a good laugh, or someone who loves to follow Hollywood Entertainment.
Quit Date: January 16th
PUBLICATION: April 25th, 2011
GENRE: Adult Humor, Non-Fiction, Adult Short Stories
SYNOPSIS: From the Renowned comedian, Demetri Martin comes his next book, This Is A Book. Many short stories from Sophocles' Publisher, to Protagonists' Hospital, all are humorous, varied, and will keep you laughing until the end!
REVIEW: NOT!!! I thought this would be a good book since it was in the Goodread's 2011 Awards for Best Humor, and some of the stories sounded good! Nope. The only funny part? The introduction. Don't discredit that, just because it was the Introduction! It was pretty hilarious, but then everything went downhill and I was bored to tears. It wasn't because he wasn't funny.You need to either have lived for decades, or be PhD educated to get some of the humor. Over my head! Recommended for 50+ looking for a good laugh, or someone who loves to follow Hollywood Entertainment.
Fat Vampire by Adam Rex
Start Date: November 12th
Quit Date:November 17th
GENRE: YA Coming of Age, YA Vampire, YA Humor
REVIEW: Doug was a normal teen, dealing with the awkwardness of puberty, until 1 summer ago, when a vampire attacked him on a walk! Now, Doug has turned into a vampire, and he hates to feed, so he sticks to cows. However, one one slip up, trying to drink from the recent-born baby panda at the San Diego, has led a low-rated reality show to chase him! Now, besides having to avoid the sun and keep those reality show buffoons off his tail, a hot Indian girl has arrived to join his school. He's fallen for her, and her blood. Is there relationship meant to last? Will Doug be property trained on being a vampire, and make the best of his new permanent body?
Sounds like an amazing book right? No. I was so anticipating an amazing novel with a funny twist on vampires, and maybe poking fun at Twilight, but no. Rex's writing was weak and led readers all over the place! I can't tell you how many times I backtracked because I got lost, and/or was thinking of other things. It was not an engaging book! The characters were all over the place, not to mention a little 2D, and I didn't know what was going on half the time! It had something great going for the first 40 pages, but then it got redundant and boring. There is no plot, no climax, no clear ending, no romance, nothing that the teaser promised. If you do pick up this book, save yourself the trouble and only read the prologue, and the last chapter. It makes more sense than anything in the book, even if it doesn't.
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Quit Date:November 17th
GENRE: YA Coming of Age, YA Vampire, YA Humor
REVIEW: Doug was a normal teen, dealing with the awkwardness of puberty, until 1 summer ago, when a vampire attacked him on a walk! Now, Doug has turned into a vampire, and he hates to feed, so he sticks to cows. However, one one slip up, trying to drink from the recent-born baby panda at the San Diego, has led a low-rated reality show to chase him! Now, besides having to avoid the sun and keep those reality show buffoons off his tail, a hot Indian girl has arrived to join his school. He's fallen for her, and her blood. Is there relationship meant to last? Will Doug be property trained on being a vampire, and make the best of his new permanent body?
Sounds like an amazing book right? No. I was so anticipating an amazing novel with a funny twist on vampires, and maybe poking fun at Twilight, but no. Rex's writing was weak and led readers all over the place! I can't tell you how many times I backtracked because I got lost, and/or was thinking of other things. It was not an engaging book! The characters were all over the place, not to mention a little 2D, and I didn't know what was going on half the time! It had something great going for the first 40 pages, but then it got redundant and boring. There is no plot, no climax, no clear ending, no romance, nothing that the teaser promised. If you do pick up this book, save yourself the trouble and only read the prologue, and the last chapter. It makes more sense than anything in the book, even if it doesn't.
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Teenage Waistland by Lynn Biederman and Lisa Pazer
Start Date: September 6th
Quit Date: September 6th
GENRE: YA Realistic, YA Family.
REVIEW: Teenage Waistland is the story of 3 patients in a clinical trial for the Lap- Band program. Marcie is 16, 288 lbs, and stuck with her size zero mom. Bobby is a star football player with "moobies'' (Man-boobies) and still a virgin at 16. His mom and dad want him to lose weight, but his dad doesn't want him to get "girl surgery". Annie "East" is 278 lbs and living with her depressed mom who won't get out of bed. The book is about the journey each character takes in the program.
If there's one thing I hate more than anything, it's co-authors! Forgive me, PC and Kristen Cast, but It annoys me that one person couldn't write a book ALONE!!!!! The reason I quit this book is because I got lost from page 1. The writing is disjointed, the characters confusing, and the dialogue a messy rant from the character's mind! All the characters sound the same in dialogue, I don't know who they're talking about, and I don't understand the setting or time frame that they talk about! I don't know if they are talking currently or in the past! I had to put the book down, or get a head rush from trying to master their concept of time!
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Quit Date: September 6th
GENRE: YA Realistic, YA Family.
REVIEW: Teenage Waistland is the story of 3 patients in a clinical trial for the Lap- Band program. Marcie is 16, 288 lbs, and stuck with her size zero mom. Bobby is a star football player with "moobies'' (Man-boobies) and still a virgin at 16. His mom and dad want him to lose weight, but his dad doesn't want him to get "girl surgery". Annie "East" is 278 lbs and living with her depressed mom who won't get out of bed. The book is about the journey each character takes in the program.
If there's one thing I hate more than anything, it's co-authors! Forgive me, PC and Kristen Cast, but It annoys me that one person couldn't write a book ALONE!!!!! The reason I quit this book is because I got lost from page 1. The writing is disjointed, the characters confusing, and the dialogue a messy rant from the character's mind! All the characters sound the same in dialogue, I don't know who they're talking about, and I don't understand the setting or time frame that they talk about! I don't know if they are talking currently or in the past! I had to put the book down, or get a head rush from trying to master their concept of time!
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