Fantastic; better than Harry Potter by far.

I sort of enjoyed this book, and sort of didn’t. It seemed pretty forced in places, pretty heavily edited in others. In a couple of places it really flowed, but it couldn’t really keep this momentum (for me). At times the plot was absurdist, and Frenzen’s clever ironies got kind of mowed down. I do, however, expect continued improvement from this author.

As far as a detailed description of the experience of being in a mental hospital goes, this book doesn’t disappoint. I think that it is a must-read for psychologist, psychiatrists, and social workers because I can’t even count the number of times that I wished that they could just have a glimpse of what it was like to be in my shoes. This book also was an interesting look at the schizophrenic experience. It was kind of an “airplane book” but not without merit.

I actually got this book by way of bturner, and I found All Consuming through his website, so it’s only fitting that I comment on American Gods here.

I’ve been a fan of Neil Gaiman for years, since the Sandman graphic art novels were first coming out. His ability to weave mythologies together to create a spellbinding universe is unparalleled and always completely fascinates me. I highly recommend everything he writes :)

She’s somehow managed this beautiful gender-fluid narrator, this sensual and delightful dialogue, a narrative free of cladding (her word). I’m enraptured.

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3 hours later. I’m done. It was lovely and incredibly charming. I ponder the motives of the girl who leant it to me, so it must have done its job. smiles

I read Siddhartha for the first time when I was in for an extended stay at a hospital… it really helped me to be able to wrap myself up in Siddhartha’s adventures instead of wallowing in my own misery.

I read this for the first time when I was probably 11 or 12 years old… Bradbury launched me on my discovery of Sci-Fi. His books have such a spareness to them, a lean and almost meditative cleanliness, that they lend themselves to readers of any age or background.

This books seems like it was written for me. We’ll see!

Light reading, but very titillating and more enjoyable than Story of O.

Sacher-Masoch manages to be less sexually explicit and more psychologically explicit [when compared to ‘O’] in this funny little stylish fantasy cum case study.

This book is hilarious. It’s funny because I thought that Eco would be like Calvino, but it’s Barthelme who is really reminding me of him.