Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel

Painfully boring. I didn't finish it, and I generally don't write a review about books I don't finish, but I feel the need to warn people away from it. I kept thinking the story would have a point and get better, but finally gave up about midway through. It's about a guy who can't make decisions and just sort of stumbles through life. Plot? Who needs it. Interesting characters? Waste of brain power. Abundant profanity and vulgarity? Got it.

The few hours I spent reading it, thinking it would get better, have been pointlessly lost forever, and I'm bitter.

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Pure fluff chick lit, but I liked it. It made me happy I have absolutely no connections to the fashion world, though. I read some reviews where the reader found it an annoying book because the narrator didn't realize how out-of-touch she was from reality, but I think I understood the narrator's perspective better than the perspectives of her friends and family and became annoyed with them for not getting how important this was to her. It was a fun read.