I finished two books during my vacation. I finished reading Interworld on the plane ride to Oregon. I have read almost all of Neil Gaiman's novels, but I don't know a whole lot about Michael Reaves except that he wrote a lot of sci-fi stuff for television. This book was awesome. I hope they turn it into a short series. The story is about a boy named Joey, who can Walk between parallel worlds. He meets other Walkers who are are different versions of him from different worlds. Once a person learns that they can walk, they are whisked away to a school especially for Walkers (a la Harry Potter) to train them to protect the worlds from evil. I guess the original idea for this story was to make it into a television series for young adults. I could see how this would work very well, so maybe it will be turned into a really cool movie eventually.
I finished Plainsong by Kent Haruf shortly after I got back from my trip. I gotta say, I thought this book was kind of dumb. At first, I thought it was going to be Jesus-ey given the title, but it wasn't. I guess the only thing special I found in this book is the writing style. While pretentious, it did grow on me as I was finishing the book. As for the plot, well, NOTHING HAPPENED. It's your basic "human condition" story. High school girl gets pregnant and also gets kicked out of her house. Girl goes to live with two hermit-ey farmer brothers. Stoic, set-in-their-ways farmer brothers eventually develop a deep bond with pregnant girl. At the same time, pregnant girl's teacher's wife is leaving him. So, he dives into his work and starts seeing a woman. Well, WOULDN'T YOU KNOW, but he neglects his two sons in the meantime and they do some stuff that probably messes them up for life. But everything is ok because there is LOVE. And they are in a small town. NEXT.
that second review is the best review of a bad book ever. EVER.
Posted by: robert | June 27, 2008 at 05:37 PM