Sat July 07, 2018 2:56 am
Stardog Champion wrote:I, Tonya
Sat July 07, 2018 2:53 pm
B wrote:Stardog Champion wrote:I, Tonya
Just finished that. I was expecting boring Oscar schlock, but I loved it. Everyone was great in it.
Sat July 07, 2018 2:55 pm
Sat July 07, 2018 3:53 pm
B wrote:Stardog Champion wrote:I, Tonya
Just finished that. I was expecting boring Oscar schlock, but I loved it. Everyone was great in it.
Sun July 08, 2018 11:57 pm
Mon July 09, 2018 5:28 pm
Same here. Still can't get over the flying cabbage.B wrote:Hit 50 books this month. Comment for the month: A Wrinkle in Time was a terrible movie. Everyone in my family hated it, including the kid that recently read and loved the book.
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bune wrote:How did you like Adjustment Day?
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Agreed on all points. So many were introduced in such spectacular ways that you were like, did I forget this person's story already? But no, it's just a new character that is in the middle of their own story already and apparently you don't need to know that part. I get it, but it's confusing.Stardog Champion wrote:bune wrote:How did you like Adjustment Day?
It's not my favorite Palahniuk work, but I did enjoy it. I thought he nailed the whole process of going down the rabbit hole into radicalization. I appreciated the way the country was divided and how and why he had each new region develop (or regress). While the separate regions were easy to follow, the characters weren't always easy to follow. The book felt a little too overpopulated at times, and I definitely lost track of some characters in the middle. When they reappeared later in the story, I had to think for a minute to remember who they were earlier in the novel. That kind of overpopulation, and subsequent confusion, doesn't feel necessary when dealing with characters who are basically tertiary (the catheter boy stands out as an example here).