34. Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey.

Ahaha, oh boy. James Frey, you crazy man.

I love his other books, especially My Friend Leonard. Seriously, I read that at the beach a few years ago and I had tears streaming down my face and I was gasping for breath because I was crying so hard. It was that powerful, or to me at least. But I won't tell you which part, it's obvious if you read it.

Anyways, Bright Shiny Morning.

I liked it. Not as much as Leonard, but it was..amusing, shall I say? It's basically many different stories all related to Los Angeles. The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the fake, the false, the true, the rich, the poor, the desire, the facts, everything. Between each story he writes a paragraph of information concerning LA. Some of the stories he continues throughout the book, some don't. Sometimes he goes off and talks about something completely random for a few pages. For examples, roads. Seriously, the roads and highways of LA. He goes on and on about it. It's not BORING, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the stories. And sometimes he'll list things. Like the names of people who arrive in LA with the desire to be made into something..for example..he lists about 50 names and next to them he put the age and what they came to LA to be and what they ended up doing there. Like "Robert - 21 - actor - now a McDonald's cashier" or something along those lines.

There are maybe 5 stories that continue throughout the book. One is about a young couple that move to LA to escape their family. Another is about a rich couple (both actors) that are really friends in a fake relationship just to appear awesome to the outside world - the male is gay and is obsessed with a football player and goes to extremes to manipulate him and get him into bed, etc. Another is about a homeless man and his search for meaning. Another is about a girl whose parents crossed the Mexico/America border and had her in America. She has really big thighs and is very insecure with herself. I think that might be my favourite.

He also does a few pages of "fun LA facts" which are ridiculous things that you can hardly believe are true. And he talks about crime rates and the different groups of people and cultures and different parts of the city. It's kind of like reading Wikipedia, but better, lol.

Anyways, it was a very intriguing book and major props to James Frey.

3 1/2 out of 5 stars.

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