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Eileen M

Eileen M

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"If you're watching TV and on the Internet, you lose the world. If you read, you win it."
(Werner Herzog)
  • MI, USA
  • member since May 7, 2009

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  • CrimeSleuthJunkie

    CrimeSleuthJunkie says

    Eileen, I just wanted to ask you who the author is for the book about Frank Hickey with the title Postcard Killer? I searched for it on the shelf but no luck. If you have time, that would be cool if you let me know!.....:), lol.

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    I didn't even know that was a title! (I only know Wheatley from his Hammer-filmed black magic novels.) My neurosis grows exponentially!!! :P

    Speaking of killer crustaceans, I see there's a new Clickers sequel: Clickers vs. Zombies. This notification was my first email of 2012. Happy New Year I guess?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    Glad you enjoyed the book :)

    As for my "crabs" issue.... I'm just neurotic about book classification. (Must be logical, must be specific!) Especially when it comes to uncharted waters such as killer crabs.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Colleen

    Colleen says

    Wishing you a wonderful Christmas! Hope you have lots of time to snuggle up with a good book. =:)

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    Hah! Yes, the Guy N. Smith Crab series. I have it listed under "Fiction - Horror - Crabs" on my Kindle, but I'm afraid this might not be specific enough. I mean, what if I pick up other killer crustacean books? Oh the troubles of an amateur librarian/English major :P

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    I couldn't wait, so I opened mine early. I read the book oh so long ago, but on a recent recon to my books in storage couldn't find my copy. I fear it was lost in a move. So happy to have a copy back in my care. Thank you so much!!!!

    Anyway...
    I've decided to finally tackle Atlas Shrugged. I'm supplementing it with Mary Roach's Bonk and John Waters' Role Models. When I finish Atlas, I'll read the opposite end of the political/financial spectrum with Upton Sinclair's Oil! (the basis for the excellent movie There Will Be Blood).

    And the crabs! I picked up the first of the Crabs books for my Kindle, so will probably wolf that down over Xmas.

    Merry Squidmas to all...and to all a good fright!

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • koren56

    koren56 says

    I'm kind of puzzled. I read your review of Not Lost Forever and noticed that there was only 1 review. I know I read that book about a year and a half ago and posted a review so I searched my shelves and found it and that one had 3 reviews and you were one of them but it was a different review. Just wondering, did you read the book twice and it was two different versions?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • GoldnWings

    GoldnWings says

    Thanks Eileen, for the Book recommend of the Big Book of Murder... I will check out

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    Are you saying that Wilde's witty, well-dressed, confirmed bachelors may be, shall we say, less than interested in the company of women? Oh my.... ;)

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    According to the what I skimmed from the copy I saw at Barnes and Noble, Wilde's original draft had some pretty blatantly homosexual material axed prior to publication. Further republications would see further cuts. The "director's cut" (lol) is Wilde's originally submitted draft with thorough annotations.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    I'm back in MI, and none too soon. I'm officially done with the Middlesex audiobook and will be deleting it from my iPod and hard drive. Have you ever been to Truh-verse' City? I've only been to Trah'-verse City. Oh, and that voice.... Grrrrr!

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    The Leprechaun bit was only a line or two, but read so terribly that I couldn't help but snort derisively. Another couple of hours of Middlesex on the road today. I still dislike the reading, but the plot, the family has moved to Grosse Pointe (one meaning of the title of course), continues to hold my interest.

    Netflix has Psychopathia Sexualis on Instant, but I've yet to watch. From my understanding, they *ahem* flesh out three different case histories from the text. The user reviews on the site can be summarized thusly: "Too arty for smut, too smutty for art."

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  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    I'm a brutal critic when it comes to audiobooks, so you might want to take my criticisms with a grain of salt. Regardless, the voice acting just doesn't come near the excellence of the prose. I'll be on the road tomorrow, so begins Round 2.

    In the spirit of fairness, here are some great audiobooks I've heard:
    Lunar Park - James Van Der Beek reading Bret Easton Ellis in the perfect monotone
    The Death of Bunny Monroe - Nick Cave reading Nick Cave. Only the author could give proper cadence to a lecherous monologue containing the line "Labia from Arabia!"
    Johnny Cash reads the New Testament - there's something magical about hearing the Man in Black read about monsters from the sea and the Wh0re drunk on the blood of the saints

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    JE's not reading it. The voice actor has no problem with the Greek names, but some of the voice acting is "elderly ethnic European" straight outta central casting. The family could be Greek, Armenian, Polish, Jewish...anything but WASP. His British accent sounds like Tim Curry's work on "The Wild Thornberrys," his Irish is a leprechaun, and his WASPS sound like Richard Pryor white people.

    DESPITE all of this, I'm about halfway through and, so far, I quite enjoy the novel. It's ambitious in scale: a family saga, geno- and phenotypically rendered, which doubles as a history of the Detroit immigrant experience.

    BTW, I see JE has a new one coming out. Heard anything about it? After Middlesex, I want to plough through some paperbacks before I hit up another serious piece of literary fiction.

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  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    Ugh...the reader pronounced Gratiot as "Grah-tee-ot" and Chene as "Ch-en-ee." The German is also pretty so-so.

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  • CinemApocryphon

    CinemApocryphon says

    A good friend of mine also went to school with the author. I LOVED Virgin Suicides, and that was with reading it before moving to the east side. (I should read it again, now that I've actually been to the hospitals mentioned in the book.)

    I've got a long car trip, so I'm listening to the audio edition. Will let you know how I like it when I get back.

    On an unrelated note: have you ever read the blog Too Much Horror Fiction: http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/ ? It's addictive, and the cover scans of forgotten horror paperbacks are just magnificent!

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Harriet C.

    Harriet C. says

    Just finished it - it's really not that great.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Harriet C.

    Harriet C. says

    I not un-enjoying it, but I'm not enjoying it as much as his Yorkshire Ripper book - it isn't as well written and I think the narrative skips about too much.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nancy Petro

    Nancy Petro says

    Thank you for having our book on your shelf!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Michael E

    Michael E says

    Am going backwards on Erdrich--up to 8 so far. I see from your list that we both have Bingo Palace and Last Report in our sights. Looking for a copy of Antelope Wife. Master Butcher's Singing Club is a favorite, despite less Indian content, and I recommend Painted Drum and Plague of Doves. Beet Queen and Shadow Tag less satisfying.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
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