The Night Gardener
Registered by xsive-guy of Lake Forest, California USA on 6/13/2011
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
June 22, 2011
I finished this book last night. I almost gave it up before I finished it.
There is too much gratuitous sex for my tastes. For instance, one character wakes up after sleeping in his car and has the need to take care of the first order of business that almost all of us have to take care after sleeping for a while. Fine, he has to go relieve himself, I don't need a graphic description of how. It seemed that the author was trying to move from a PG-13 to an R rating in the book for no reason other than to get the R rating.
Secondly, it was filled with street slang. I had to keep translating it in my head. Perhaps it made it more "real" and / or more gritty but I just didn't like.
My last comment is that I didn't need the sermon at the end of the book. When the death of Asa is resolved the characters start talking about how they could be better people. I don't like that in a book that I'm reading for entertainment.
If you enjoy the book, great!, but I didn't.
June 13, 2011
I just picked this book up from the WD "Leave a book. Take a book." shelf and started reading it at lunch. I'm only a few pages into it - let's see where it goes.
I finished this book last night. I almost gave it up before I finished it.
There is too much gratuitous sex for my tastes. For instance, one character wakes up after sleeping in his car and has the need to take care of the first order of business that almost all of us have to take care after sleeping for a while. Fine, he has to go relieve himself, I don't need a graphic description of how. It seemed that the author was trying to move from a PG-13 to an R rating in the book for no reason other than to get the R rating.
Secondly, it was filled with street slang. I had to keep translating it in my head. Perhaps it made it more "real" and / or more gritty but I just didn't like.
My last comment is that I didn't need the sermon at the end of the book. When the death of Asa is resolved the characters start talking about how they could be better people. I don't like that in a book that I'm reading for entertainment.
If you enjoy the book, great!, but I didn't.
June 13, 2011
I just picked this book up from the WD "Leave a book. Take a book." shelf and started reading it at lunch. I'm only a few pages into it - let's see where it goes.
Journal Entry 2 by xsive-guy at Western Digital in Irvine, California USA on Wednesday, June 22, 2011
At the "Take a book. Leave a book." at the top of the stairs from the lobby. Sorry, you have to be a WD employee to get here.
