ghostbuster82 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ghostbuster82) wrote,@ 2007-01-08 05:50:00 |
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Books and I
When you're wreck dealing with depression and taking a year away from school you tend to have a lot of time on your hands. Well except for the summer months that I spent working at the TTC and playing golf with my dad about once a week, but then again I did a lot of reading at work since my job had a lot of down time so I guess you can say that I spent most of my year reading, which is a pretty good way to spend your free time, well if you're not in a relationship or hate books or other wise has a life, and yes I understand that this one massive run on sentence but if want to read someone with shorter sentences and who gets to the point quickly I must advise you to read Hemingway.
Well what I am trying to say is that I had the chance to read a lot of books this year. A lot of books from all different genres (fiction, non-fiction, paranormal, sport, culture...). So I've decided to list the top five books that I read this past year, so here it goes:
5. "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman
I've been sitting here for about ten minutes trying to come up with a way to describe this pop culture masterpiece (well in my opinion it's great) and I just can't seem to think of any words that can be used to convey just how much this book interested me. So I'll just mention that it contains a chapter on the cultural impact of Saved by the Bell. Serious. Saved by the bloody Bell.
4. "The Big Nowhere" by James Ellroy
Part two of Ellroy's "LA Quartet", it lacks attention give to two of it's brother books, "The Black Dahlia" and "L.A. Confidential" but having read all four of the novels I have to say that "The Big Nowhere" is my personal favorite. The novel paints a true to life picture of LA in the early 50's from corrupt LAPD cops to Hollywood "reds" to everyday slang of the period. It's an underrated novel that explores the glamour and the dirt of a period that is often glorified.
3. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City" by Jonathan Mahler
A non-fiction book that is a lot like Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" only it's good and doesn't feature John Leguizamo. A must read for anyone considering spending time in New York City.
2. "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh
Yeah it is written in Scottish and yes subject matter isn't something that you'd want your grandmother to see but it's well written, captures your attention and takes you on a wild and very strange ride to a world that is alluring and repulsive at the same time.
1. "Porno" by Irvine Welsh
The sequel to "Trainspotting" catches up with most of the main characters from the first book ten years later and finds them older but hardly wiser. This time the novel follows the structure of a novel with an actual plot: making a porn movie. It's the crass journey of people trying to change their lives and going about in the only way they really know how.
When you're wreck dealing with depression and taking a year away from school you tend to have a lot of time on your hands. Well except for the summer months that I spent working at the TTC and playing golf with my dad about once a week, but then again I did a lot of reading at work since my job had a lot of down time so I guess you can say that I spent most of my year reading, which is a pretty good way to spend your free time, well if you're not in a relationship or hate books or other wise has a life, and yes I understand that this one massive run on sentence but if want to read someone with shorter sentences and who gets to the point quickly I must advise you to read Hemingway.
Well what I am trying to say is that I had the chance to read a lot of books this year. A lot of books from all different genres (fiction, non-fiction, paranormal, sport, culture...). So I've decided to list the top five books that I read this past year, so here it goes:
5. "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman
I've been sitting here for about ten minutes trying to come up with a way to describe this pop culture masterpiece (well in my opinion it's great) and I just can't seem to think of any words that can be used to convey just how much this book interested me. So I'll just mention that it contains a chapter on the cultural impact of Saved by the Bell. Serious. Saved by the bloody Bell.
4. "The Big Nowhere" by James Ellroy
Part two of Ellroy's "LA Quartet", it lacks attention give to two of it's brother books, "The Black Dahlia" and "L.A. Confidential" but having read all four of the novels I have to say that "The Big Nowhere" is my personal favorite. The novel paints a true to life picture of LA in the early 50's from corrupt LAPD cops to Hollywood "reds" to everyday slang of the period. It's an underrated novel that explores the glamour and the dirt of a period that is often glorified.
3. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City" by Jonathan Mahler
A non-fiction book that is a lot like Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" only it's good and doesn't feature John Leguizamo. A must read for anyone considering spending time in New York City.
2. "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh
Yeah it is written in Scottish and yes subject matter isn't something that you'd want your grandmother to see but it's well written, captures your attention and takes you on a wild and very strange ride to a world that is alluring and repulsive at the same time.
1. "Porno" by Irvine Welsh
The sequel to "Trainspotting" catches up with most of the main characters from the first book ten years later and finds them older but hardly wiser. This time the novel follows the structure of a novel with an actual plot: making a porn movie. It's the crass journey of people trying to change their lives and going about in the only way they really know how.
