When did zombies become props in erotica? I'm not sure I want to know the answer. It is just wrong. I think that romance/erotica should not be mixed with horror.
I found it painful to read, but if you are into romance/erotica, this book is a decent romance/erotica novel. It hits all the right conventions: strong woman, wounded and slightly and slightly dangerous man, sex, and marriage at the end. The sex is predictably steamy and surprisingly plentiful. The characters are young, attractive, and wildly fabulous. They talk like robots. But I guess beautiful people don't need wit.
Apr 19, 2010
Apr 4, 2010
PDF E-Books and my Sony Pocket Reader
I've now read a few PDF e-books on my Pocket Reader. They do not work as well as e-pub books. The PDF doesn't reflow as well when you change the font sizes. The font does get bigger, but a page is still a page. What happens is that often a page according to the reader is only the bottom line of a page in the PDF. It is slightly annoying.
All that aside, the PDFs are readable.
All that aside, the PDFs are readable.
Slaughterhouse Five
I missed this book when I was working my way through Vonnegut's works a few years ago. I'm not really sure how or why I skipped his signature novel, but I did. Anyway, I saw that it was available at the library and I checked it out burning with anticipation.
I expected to be blown away by Vonnegut's satirical wit as he commented on the petty horrors of the Dresden Firebombing. When I was finished I felt underwhelmed by the book. It has all of Vonnegut's hallmarks, but it felt flat. Billy Pilgrim was not just feckless, but also bland. I couldn't like hime, dislike him, or even pitty him. He was just a blank. Maybe that was the whole point of him. He is an everyman, but I'd like to at least feel something for everyman.
The time traveling didn't really work for me either. I get that Billy is fractured and I get that his time traveling is supposed to also offer some lesson to us stuck in time folk. Don't be too concerned about things because time is meaningless.
Maybe I'm just simply in a bad mood about time travel lately. It has been overdone. I could also be down on symbolism. Or I could just be tired lately. So it goes.
Anyway, I didn't think that Slaughterhouse Five was Vonnegut's best work. I preferred Cat's Cradle, Hocus Pocus, Breakfast of Champions, and Player Piano more. The later works have more coherence to them. Vonnegut seems to have worked out his mythology a little better. Or maybe the Dresden Bombing was just too much to write about.
So it goes.
I expected to be blown away by Vonnegut's satirical wit as he commented on the petty horrors of the Dresden Firebombing. When I was finished I felt underwhelmed by the book. It has all of Vonnegut's hallmarks, but it felt flat. Billy Pilgrim was not just feckless, but also bland. I couldn't like hime, dislike him, or even pitty him. He was just a blank. Maybe that was the whole point of him. He is an everyman, but I'd like to at least feel something for everyman.
The time traveling didn't really work for me either. I get that Billy is fractured and I get that his time traveling is supposed to also offer some lesson to us stuck in time folk. Don't be too concerned about things because time is meaningless.
Maybe I'm just simply in a bad mood about time travel lately. It has been overdone. I could also be down on symbolism. Or I could just be tired lately. So it goes.
Anyway, I didn't think that Slaughterhouse Five was Vonnegut's best work. I preferred Cat's Cradle, Hocus Pocus, Breakfast of Champions, and Player Piano more. The later works have more coherence to them. Vonnegut seems to have worked out his mythology a little better. Or maybe the Dresden Bombing was just too much to write about.
So it goes.
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