Yeah, it's been a few day's since my last post, but I haven't had any comments yet, so I'm guessing the interest in my blog is less than overwhelming. When this will change is anyones guess.
Live Earth was the best concert I think I've ever been to. I've never been to Big Day Out, but the atmosphere at Live Earth was happy and relaxed, and the acts were some of my favourite bands. Crowded House, John Butler Trio, Jack Johnson. Even Paul Kelly was good, and I didn't really know who he was before the concert.
Hopefully my money is going to a good cause, but even if it isn't, I guess I'll just keep trying to decrease the size of my footprint. You know, using less water, less electricity, catching public transport. As a mate of mine, Maria keeps saying, global warming is not cool man!
Monday, July 9, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Second Post
OK, so I couldn't think of a snazzy title for my latest post. Any who, last night I finished "Musn't Grumble" by Joe Bennett. He's English born but lives in New Zealand, and as I understand it, is a high school teacher and news paper columnist.
I'm from New Zealand, and lived in London for a year, so I thought this book would be pretty interesting. Sadly, this book wasn't as good as I hoped. Bennet reveals very little of himself, so as a travel memoir is already at a disadvantage. And the overall tone was one of disappointment and enui. I like my travel books to be a bit uplifting, maybe I'm too used to reading Bill Bryson and the like. It's not bad, and will be interesting to most Kiwi ex-pat's, but I'm glad I got it out of the library, and didn't pay money for it.
I'm from New Zealand, and lived in London for a year, so I thought this book would be pretty interesting. Sadly, this book wasn't as good as I hoped. Bennet reveals very little of himself, so as a travel memoir is already at a disadvantage. And the overall tone was one of disappointment and enui. I like my travel books to be a bit uplifting, maybe I'm too used to reading Bill Bryson and the like. It's not bad, and will be interesting to most Kiwi ex-pat's, but I'm glad I got it out of the library, and didn't pay money for it.
Monday, July 2, 2007
The List
1. Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman
2. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
3. Musn't Grumble, an accidental return to England by Joe Bennett
4. Jenny and the Jaws of Life by Jincy Willett
5. Girls like you by Paul Sheehan
6 Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
3. Musn't Grumble, an accidental return to England by Joe Bennett
4. Jenny and the Jaws of Life by Jincy Willett
5. Girls like you by Paul Sheehan
6 Atonement by Ian McEwan
First Post
Hi everybody. (Hi Dr. Nick!) In the past I've kept a list of the books I read over the course of the year, and I always enjoy talking with other people about the books I love, as well as the books I hate.
I've just finished reading "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk, the author of "Fight Club" which I haven't yet read. He also wrote "Choke" which I read a few years ago, and I liked it enough to buy another one of his novels. OK so it took me a while to get around to reading "Lullaby", but now that I have I'm keen to get my hands on his other books.
I found "Lullaby" heart breakingly sad, with just a hint of redemption, which is just the way I like my novels. There is a very black sense of humour throughout the book, which not only appeals to my sensibility, but also lightens the mood, which is desperately needed in a novel about the death of children.
The narrator, Carl Streator is not particularly likable at first glance, but by the end of the book I was commited. Palahniuk has a gift for creating flawed, complex characters. They act irrationally and do stupid things, but keep struggling towards redemption, for want of a better word. I fell in love with the characters in "Lullaby", and it's one of the highlights of the books I have read this year.
I've just finished reading "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk, the author of "Fight Club" which I haven't yet read. He also wrote "Choke" which I read a few years ago, and I liked it enough to buy another one of his novels. OK so it took me a while to get around to reading "Lullaby", but now that I have I'm keen to get my hands on his other books.
I found "Lullaby" heart breakingly sad, with just a hint of redemption, which is just the way I like my novels. There is a very black sense of humour throughout the book, which not only appeals to my sensibility, but also lightens the mood, which is desperately needed in a novel about the death of children.
The narrator, Carl Streator is not particularly likable at first glance, but by the end of the book I was commited. Palahniuk has a gift for creating flawed, complex characters. They act irrationally and do stupid things, but keep struggling towards redemption, for want of a better word. I fell in love with the characters in "Lullaby", and it's one of the highlights of the books I have read this year.
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