43. Castration Celebration by Jake Wizner.

Ahaha, that would be my brother. I couldn't resist.

I actually really liked this book. It was quite different from most teen books. It's about a girl who goes to this summer camp type place for actors and writers etc. She is writing a play called Castration Celebration. It shows her play as she's writing it and it's quite funny. She incorporates what goes on at camp into her play and it all just goes together very well. It's a musical play so she writes songs for it and they're all clever and stupid and awesome. It's all stupid perverted humour, but what's not to love about that? There are serious elements in it too though, obviously.

She meets a guy the first day there and the book is from his and her perspective..at the same time..it was really odd. I'd never seen a book written this way..because it doesn't switch perspectives by alternating chapters..it's just done that way throughout paragraphs. Like..it will show what she's thinking and what he's thinking all at the same time. I liked it though.

But yeah, she's a funny girl that most people don't take seriously and the guy is a typical guy, I guess, in the way that he's really into girls and isn't afraid to hit on anyone that he has his eye on. But he gets really into her etc etc. But it's FUNNY not really depressing ever. That's why the book is good. They're both sarcastic smartass bitches and we all know that I love sarcastic smartass bitches!

The book also involves her three roommates who are all pretty different and then his roommate who is pretty much a stoner guitar player. They're all like-able, though.

QUOTES!

"You know that book Twilight?"
"I've heard of it."
"It's about this vampire who hooks up with a teenage chick. They never do more than kiss, but I was thinking if he ever went down on her while she was having her period it would be like winning the fucking lottery."

AHAHAH WIN.

"There are gay monkeys? That's so cool."
"Of course there are gay monkeys. There are gay monkeys, gay gorillas, gay giraffes, gay penguins, gay aardvarks. You think only people can be gay?"
"Wow! I never thought about that before. Do you think there were gay dinosaurs?"
"Have you seen Barney?"


Ahahah, epic win.


<3KRISTEN.

42. Milkrun by Sarah Mlynowski.

Okay, how perfect is the picture I took for this book? LOL. It cracks me up every time. Master shake..omg, I love him. And it's perfect how the book has a fucking pink straw. Priceless.

I don't know what to say about this book :(

It was good.

LOL.

It's about a woman (she's 24, I think) whose boyfriend (that she's pretty obsessed with) randomly dumps her while he's on a vacation in Thailand to find himself. She decides to put herself on the market and get back in the game. She starts getting all dressed up and going to a bar called Orgasm (wtf) with her slightly slutty friend, shall I say. She meets guys, she goes out with the guys, she finds out something super negative about the guy and then she moves on to the next. Not in a slutty way, she isn't fucking them all or anything. She's just looking for THE ONE. She always gets overly excited and overly expectant. For example, she meets this guy that she was obsessed with back in high school and he asks her out and she's all excited and is thinking about their future together as husband and wife and then they go out and he turns out to be a total creeper. And so the story goes. It's just a comedic story of a girl who isn't quite over her previous love but willing to put herself out there and let her hair down. It's funny and witty and a great..er, girly read, I guess.

QUOTE.

"Don't worry, there's a lid for every pot."

But only because I had never heard that phrase before and it cracked me the fuck up for some reason. LOL. I'm so easily amused.


Kristen :D

39-41. Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.

Sigh. Yes, I'm a Twilighter. But I REFUSE to read Breaking Dawn again, lol.

Let me break it down for you:
Twilight = LOVE.
New Moon = Good, but not great.
Eclipse = Ehhhhhhh.
Breaking Dawn = W.T.F.

That's how it goes. I've read Twilight - Eclipse 3 times now in a little over a year. I've read Breaking Dawn twice. I know I could read it again but there's no point. I find it so retarded..the only part I like is when all of the vampires from across the world come together and you learn about their powers and culture etc.

Most of the arguments for Twilight are so repetitive and annoying. I'll go through them and put my opinion.

1. Vampires don't sparkle. Okay, why is this such a big deal? It's not as if vampires actually exist..so why can't an author take a creature and make it her own? Many different vampires have different elements and personalities in different vampire books. If she wants her vampires to sparkle in the sun then let her and get the fuck over it and stop bitching. Go read Vonnegut since sparkling vampires are so beneath you and hey, maybe you should bitch about something that's worth bitching about next time. ///// This is only directed towards those who take this shit too seriously. If it's a joke, I don't care, I find most jokes about Twilight hilarious even though I like the book. But if people are degrading the book due to sparkling vampires and what not, I mean, what the fuck, it's a fiction story. Yeah. Woo.

2. Girls that like Edward Cullen's character are dumbass fucks and need to realize he cannot exist. REALLY? STONE COLD/HARD AND SUPER STRONG, SPARKLING, VEGETARIAN BEAUTIFUL MALE VAMPIRES DON'T EXIST? OH MY FUCKING GOD. I HAD NO IDEA. THANKS FOR BRINGING MY HEAD OUT OF MY ASS AFTER ALL OF THIS TIME. There's a difference between admiring his character and waiting for it. I agree, if you dump your boyfriend because he doesn't compare to Edward Cullen or if you're sitting at home crying because you can't find an equivalent, then that's pretty pathetic and you really do need to get over yourself. But for the rest of us who just admire his character and choose him over Jacob, why is this so unbelievable? People always say that they're for Jacob because he's human and someone like Edward could never exist and he's too perfect blah blah blah. Now, let me mention this again..IT'S A STORY. FICTION. NOT REAL. So if this FICTIONAL CHARACTER named BELLA has a choice between a PERFECT, BEAUTIFUL, ETC VAMPIRE named EDWARD and a typical immature dickass werewolf named Jacob that shoves his tongue down her throat..why the fuck would she NOT choose Edward IN THE STORY. If Edward exists for her IN THE STORY then why should she say NO to him? It doesn't make sense for her to be like "oh, sorry Edward, I'm going to have to turn you down for Jacob because you don't exist - oh wait" seriously.

NOW, if you genuinely don't like Edward's character - many people don't - then that's fine. If you don't like the over-protectiveness (he loosens up eventually) or his old style mannerisms or his cold skin or whatever other elements of his personality..then fine. It makes perfect sense for you to be like..yeah, I want Jacob. Or if you want neither. Or if you don't give a shit about any characters in Twilight, then yeah, that's fine. But don't be and idiot and get fiction confused with reality. Most of my obsessions involve the characters and nothing related to my own life. Sure, I may have mentioned in the past that I wish a vampire would come find me and love me and obsess over me..but it's not literal seriousness. Kind of like how I desire to have a threesome with the Weasley twins or James+Oliver Phelps, but that will never happen either. Hopefully you get my point.

But I do genuinely love Edward Cullen's character. I love his old fashioned phrases and the way he talks and the way he addresses Bella etc etc. His sarcasm and quiet humour. It's all so very attractive. And he's supposed to be. But it's not for everyone.

3. Stephenie Meyer's writing is horrible and her grammar is even worse. Okay, I may somewhat agree with this, but I'm not going to hate her books because of it. They're still read-able to me. Yes, it isn't written like a classic and it's not supposed to be, I don't think. For me, it's merely entertainment, nothing more, nothing less.

But yeah, I love Twilight (the first book) and I'll probably read it a billion times without it ever getting old.

I can't wait until the final draft of Midnight Sun comes out..I've read the partial draft and it's so amazing. Woooooo.

I've said enough on the subject. I'm sure I could go on and on but I'm too lazy.

KRISTEN.

38. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.

Allllllllllllllright. I saw the movie and then I got super excited when I found it at Goodwill. I love Goodwill..there may be no organization at all, but you can find the best books there. And it's sooooooo cheap, obviously.

So, this was the last book that I read while at the beach. It's different when you see a movie and then read the book..instead of reading the book and then seeing the movie. Your perception is a bit different, I think, because if you read a book FIRST then you develop your own perspective of the characters and places in the book, and obviously books usually go into more depth, so that when you see the movie, you typically feel disappointment, or at least that's how it is for me. BUT if I see a movie THEN read the book, it's not as bad, because you see the characters and the setting and how it plays out..and then when you read the book you're like "oh, yeah, I can picture this perfectly..I remember this in the movie..blah blah blah!" and so on and so forth.

So, what I'm trying to say is that, from the direction I went (movie to book) I thought they did a pretty good job and stayed on track with the book. I really liked the movie and it's representation of the book. Now, if I had read the book first, who knows. But even if I had read the book first, I still think I would have liked the way the movie was. ANYWAYS.

The book was good. I already knew most of what was going to happen because, like I've already repeated 98532 times, it was a lot like the movie. I don't think I really expected it to be much different though. The book is a lot less..revealing, I guess, than the movie. They speak of making love a lot, but in the movie it's like woah shit.

The writing is very beautiful and very mature. It was really easy for me to get into, it wasn't dull or boring. It's written in a way that makes me really..I don't know, appreciate it.

And the story line is just so heart-sinking. It's beautiful and depressing. Yet..happy, sometimes. Not rainbow and unicorn happy, just moving. I don't know, I'm horrid at this.

QUOTE.

"The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nevertheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear. Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be."


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