I'm not even going to try and catch up on ones I've missed but today I thought I'd start afresh.
What did I last read? Flush by Carl Hiassen. I was under the impression, the impression given to me from the book jacket, that this was a comedy. I had hoped for a sort of Christopher Moore kind of romp, but it wasn't. About a 1/3 of the way into it I was disappointed to find it wasn't a comedy but an action/mystery and was on the very tame side of the road, which when I complained of this my daughter pointed out that Hiassen was a juvenile fiction writer, I hadn't know this. I was already invested in the who/what/when and where so I continued reading and once I had adjusted my expectations it was actually a pretty good story.
What am I reading now? Well I've been reading Clive Barker's Books of Blood volumes one to three but I believe I'm done with it. I read all the first volume and about half the second one and while some of them are good macabre stories there all a little much on the blood and guts side of horror for my taste. I'm not a fan of horror movies but being the month for Halloween I thought I'd read some scary stories, which I do occasionally like. While I liked some of these and couldn't stop reading others, it was kind of like driving past and accident and feeling bad for staring but not being able to help it. I began to feel a little uncomfortable with the stories, a little unclean, if you will. So I've decided to give up on the Books of Blood.
What am I reading next? Neil Gaimans Anansi Boys. It was the only other Gaiman book the library had other than American Gods which I just read a few weeks back, so I thought I'd give it a spin (spin, you know, like a spiders web?).
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Whoa!! Hiassen is NOT a juvenile fiction writer - not primarily, anyway. Read TOURIST SEASON or just about anything else he's written. He write very funny novels about the Florida that's vanishing due to greed, tourism, and well, greed again. And he gave us the memorable character Skink - he first appears in DOUBLE WHAMMY. If you like Christopher Moore (and really, who doesn't?) try Hiassen again.
ReplyDeleteOkay. Flush read like jvfiction and my daughter told me he wrote Whoot. I suppose everyone can have an off book, not that Flush was bad but it wasn't funny, no where near Christopher Moore-ish. But based solely on your opinion I wont write him off as a writer just yet.
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