A little dissapointing when compared to the first three books. It doesn’t seem as polished, and could have used a little bit more rigorous editing. And there seem to be some jumps and odd twists or sudden endings in the story-lines. It unfortunate, since the first three were such great books. Makes be a little nervous about the final chapter?

These books are terrible!! What-ever you do DO NOT start reading them. He has way way too many plot-lines going, I think he gets tired of them and just drops them or maybe forgets about them, so some prominent characters just suddenly dissappear.

The characters are NOT well thought out or defined, and he has them doing stupid and un-characteristic things, or stupidly getting into trouble and then miraculously getting rescued.

He has too many characters and locations going, its almost impossible to keep things straight. In this last book he has two characters that occur in many of the same scenes one named Pelivar and one names Perival!@@ How stupid is that?

I think this is the 11th book in this series and its still not completed. With a good editor, who wasn’t afraid to cut out wasteful or irrelevant text or plot lines these 11 books may have made a nice trilogy.

But I’ve never been to Chicago. My Chicago style Hot dog was from Matt’s Famous Chili Dogs in Seattle. http://www.mattsfamouschilidogs.com/ All Matt’s hot-dogs are very good, and they do claim to have Chicago Style dogs (they have neon green relish) but I don’t know if they’re truely authentic Chicago style or not, or how close they hold to the standards!

But they are very good!!

Lucky Lager was NOT brewed by Labatts. It was a northwest U.S. beer brewed I believe by General Brewing Co, in Portland, OR.

This is the Lucky Lager I was thinking of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Lager

http://www.rustycans.com/month0105.html

Unless maybe there were more than one Lucky Lager.

I just finished the audio version of this book and part of me really enjoyed it but a bigger part is really dissappointed. It was a little slow to get going , and then it seemed like she just all of a sudden decided to wrap it up quickly, and then there was absolutely no resolution at the end.

Maybe I’m just missing something or dense, but I didn’t get the ending at all. I loved the book until the last half page, and then I couldn’t believe that that was how it ended?

Gnarls Barkley – Crazy

Sons and Daughters – Dance Me In

The Rogers Sisters – You undecided

Jenny Lewis – Handle With Care

Joseph Artur – Honey and the Moon

The Rosebuds – Outnumbered

Stone Roses – Love Spreads

The Old 97’s – Jagged

My Morning Jacket – Off the Record

Ray Price – City Lights

Giant Drag – This Isn’t It

http://www.kexp.org

The Black Keys – Thickfreakness

Tapes and Tapes – The Illiad

Rilo Kiley – Portions for Foxes

The Gossip – Standing in the Way of control

Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell – Ramblin Man

Neko Case – John Saw That Number

White Stripes – Stop Breaking Down

The Go! Team – Huddle Formation

Lucinda Williams – Still I Long for Your Kisses

Bright Eyes – We Are Nowhere and Its Now

Detroit Cobras – The Real Thing

Great movie about a gypsy clan in New York!

Sterling Hayden is the patriarch, Judd Hirsh the inept son who wants to inherit the leadership, Eric Roberts the grand son who doesn’t want it but inherits the leadership. Susan Sarandon, Shelly Winters, Brooke Shields, Annette O’Toole, and Annie Potts.

Excellent background book on Glacier National Park! Very good section on the geologic history of the park and how it was formed. Good sections on the plants and animals in the park and the various eco-systems and micro-climates.

Probably the best coconut cream pie I’ve ever had, it was overwhelming almost intimidating. It was huge and so good!