sabrinamonet's reviews
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I enjoyed catching up with old friends. I was happy not to hear about the Mayfair witches, that wasn't my cup of tea. I felt that "Prince Lestat" brought all loose ends together and picked up where Queen of the Damned left off.

I used to hate David and after "Tale of the Body Thief" I really wanted him to go. I was possessive of Lestat and didn't like seeing him make connections with characters other than Louis, Claudia, Marius, Armand, and Akasha. I was a teen when I read the earlier books, now that I'm older it's nice to have more people (or vampires) in the room to talk to.

Never forget that Louis described Lestat as a monster before Marius described him as a brat Prince. I accepted Lestat for who he was from the first novel and I was on his side from the first to the last page of this latest installment. I refused to read any of the novels that crossed Lestat with the Mayfair crew. Now that I completed "Prince Lestat" and found myself okay with the vampire family growing, I just may give the witches a try, even though I think Rice silently let readers know you didn't have to go there to be complete.

Finally! After twenty years, I've finished this book. Skimmed through it in my early teens to get through an exam. Over the past few years, I've heard references dropped in film/TV referring to the characters in the novel. Prior to finishing the novel, I knew there were nice kids and crazy kids on the island. I now know the Jack, Ralph, Simon, Roger and Piggy references. There really is no way to read this story and not see all of the other works it has influenced. Glad I finally got this off my bucket list.

He wrote this?! It was crazy. Palahniuk took subject matter that a large demographic of readers gravitate towards and showed a darker, more ridiculous side of it. I never read any of the books he's making a tongue-in-cheek reference to, but his take on similar characters is probably closer to the truth. Glad he wrote it. I don't think anyone else would.

Lawson tells stories that never happened to me personally, but that I could imagine having happened after reading her book. She reminds me of David Sedaris, if Sedaris had had a taxidermist for a dad.

Began reading this around Thanksgiving and wrapped up this week. I watched a few episodes of the show and have always wanted to read one of Tyson's books. I have another sitting on the nightstand and will probably spend 2015 reading through his work the way I did Malcolm Gladwell's last year. There were a few "dosing off in science class" moments, but those moments were few. It's not good for me to spend a lot of time thinking of the vast universe because I get depressed easily, but Tyson leads you to believe it's not something to be afraid of.

If he continues with the Mr. Mercedes story, I will read it. I'm only giving it three stars because I don't love it as much as I do his other work. I read it in three nights and I stayed interested in the story, but I wasn't as in love with Hodges as I am with Lisey's Story or the Dark Tower series. It kept me entertained and I never forgot I was reading a King novel.

It put together a lot of things I knew but couldn't articulate. People that have been following healthcare will have a working knowledge of what's in this book, but I can see it falling on deaf ears to those that aren't interested. This book is definitely worth reading not only for the breakdown of our healthcare system, but also for his 7 changes that will happen to healthcare over the next two decades.

I read this because I'd enjoyed "The Goldfinch". This book I didn't care for. It held me until the end, but I walked away from it feeling like I'd read an extended summary of a college episode of Law & Order: SVU.

The first hundred pages had me excited. There's a kid at an Ivy League school and he's dropped out of all of his classes to major in Greek Classics. He's also trying to figure out the weird rich kids he's in class with. You can go anywhere from there.

What I ended up reading about was one really rich kid that had deep emotional issues with psychotic tendencies and his enabling friends that stuck around because they were financially dependent on him. There's no mystery or wonder there for me. If he wasn't from East Coast old money he would be easily recognizable - a murderer.

I think Law & Order has really spoiled me for these stories. If I'm going to be read about a murder at a sleepy college campus, there has to be something driving it besides a group of teens that got bored and decided to throw a bacchanal. I should have read this book ten years ago when it first came out, it would have been fresher then.

I still made it to the end and didn't give up, which means it was well written. I'd still read anything written by Tartt. I may not agree, but I like the way her mind works.