Philip’s Comments (group member since Dec 26, 2007)

Philip’s comments from the Evil Avatar group.

Come celebrate my Birthday (41 Years Young) and visit EvAv and shout out your newest book acquisitions or recent good reads.

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Half way into summer and the EvAv Goodreads group has stalled out. We should pick a new book for the summer to get things moving again!

Since I'm way far behind, I'm glad we took a month off, but it isn't too early to start thinking about our next book.

Since I just read it and it was excellent, I would suggest Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects. It is a great little character drama an crime/mystery novel.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland has come up several times, that might be another good suggestion.

I'm a little behind, I still need to finish up Perfume and start The Raw Shark Texts.

If no one has read it, I might recommend Stephen King's The Colorado Kid for the April book. Awesome story and short enough to be read in one sitting.

Any ideas for the April book? I missed the March book -- no time to get to the bookstore and pick it up.

I'm heading to the bookstore tomorrow to pick up a notebook, I might get it then.

I finished reading it today. I found the book interesting, but not really compelling. We never really learn much about the characters -- all we get for the most part are little snippets of their interaction with each other in different time periods. A lot of their emotion other than a kind of 16-year-old puppy love, seems mostly lost amid the jarring transitions from one time to another.

The author even writes in a very oddball style... each section is hardly ever more than a page long. How much can you learn in a page? Or another way to look at it would be to say, "Anyone can write one good page." and it felt a lot like what she did was write 400+ one page short stories that were loosly tied together.

I'm glad I read it, but it doesn't make the favorites list.

I'm about half way into the book. It is a great book, but very mainstream and the pacing doesn't seem to pick up even after about half the book.