Garden State by Rick MoodyWe have traveled to and spent several days in the garden state and wanted to learn more about it.NJ Alice is a rhythmic guitarist and works at a diner to make ends meet. All done with school they each don't have ambition to do something with their lives.Dennis is an artist...
The Ice Storm by Rick Moody1973 Thanksgiving weekend, about how the family is falling apart.Benjamin Hood - His mistress Janie Williams. He's had affairs before, he strives to have things he can't have.Story also follows Wendy Williams who's in high school and she's waiting to meet up with Mikey who...
Far too many author interview books feel so self-involved and seem to serve only the authors themselves. This one is different. Authors talk about writing in a way that downplays their own work in a refreshing way. In fact, the actual interviewer isn't even disclosed (simply referred to as The Goat)...
Let me say how happy I was to come across this collection while browsing at my local library. Both The Ice Storm & Garden State are on my Favorite Movie list, and I am a fan of short stories in general so I opened this book excited to delve into Mr. Moody's written word. Then it became what I like t...
This book is somewhat difficult to explain. The premise is that an author in 2027 is hired to write the novelization of a remake of a low budget 1967 horror movie. The introduction and afterward are both written by said author, Montese Crandall. In those sections, he talks about his dying wife (she ...
Fuuuuuuck, I've been almost buying this damn book for about seven years. Found for cheap at a little bookstore I wanted to support, so finally got it, and its sort-of-companion.
this is one of those novels that starts sharp and strong, and ends dull and dreary. i really enjoyed the first part of the novel, particularly the old diary of the wapshot ancestor who was dishonoured by his father's wayward ways at sea. the book is kind of clunky, and there are abrupt shifts in the...
THE FOUR FINGERS OF DEATH will remind you that storytelling is supposed to be fun. It's supposed to stretch the imagination. It's supposed to make you laugh and cringe and cry and smirk and push yourself forward to find out what happens next.Put simply, I have not had this much fun reading a book --...
The American literati bristled last year when one of the Nobel Prize bigwigs said the country’s writers were too entangled with their own mass culture to get close to a new Nobel in Literature. I don’t think that’s entirely true, but after reading "The Ice Storm" I have to say I suspect the Swedish ...
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