Book Reviews

[Ryunday]

 

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Well In thought since this is a writer’s discussion forum I would make this topic to discuss literacy. The point of this topic is for people to review novels of any genre. Please give your honest opinion on the book you’re reviewing as it may influence someone to buy it, and when your rating a book try to give it a rating out of something, for example:

 

1 = Bad

2 = Average

3 = Good

4 = Great

5 = Amazing

 

And please try not to be to short with a review, if you talk about the storyline of the book just give a summary of the plot and don’t give anything away that could potentially ruin it for the reader.

 

Also this is the 500th topic on this forum And thank you GTAdedan for making the graphic.

 

I will stat of by reviewing this book.

 

 

 

The I Chong is a biography of Tommy Chong who with Cheech Marin was half of the legendary comedy duo Cheech and Chong. The book is written by Tommy Chong, and is named after the ancient Chinese book The I Ching.

 

The book is a biography of Tommy Chong's life but yet the majority of the book is about how he was imprisoned by the American government (To make an example out of him in Americas War On Drugs and as payback for his pro-pot cult comedy) and his time in jail. A large portion of the book is also about Marijuana, religion, today’s American political system and I fell to a level post- 9/11 society. The parts of the book that are about his life are mainly about his childhood, His wife Shelby and the period in his life when he was getting ready to serve time in jail.

 

Surprisingly very little of the book is contributed to his rise in the world of comedy and music and his involvement in the legendry Cheech and Chong comedy duo. The parts that are a very interesting read , and despite the lack of them I can honestly say as a die hard Cheech and Chong fan I found it to defiantly not disappointing.

 

This is a very interesting inspirational story, a philosophical look at the world and a great book. 4/5

Edited September 28, 2007 by Ryunday

[Cubanwhip]

I like this idea.

 

 

 

Survivor is probably one of Chuck Palahniuk's greatest books, at least in my opinion. I have read every book of his, even his non-fiction and this is by-far, the best one I have read.

 

It is about a survivor, Tender Branson, of a death cult who happens to fall in love with the sister of a man he indirectly killed. One by one, the remaining survivors of the cult dwindle. This catches the media attention and they make a deal with Tender to either stay cleaning homes, or become a messiah as the lone survivor of the death cult. Tender is then famous and his agent makes him sign papers, without Tender actually reading, leading to a pornography landfill on his old death cult's town, a book of useless prayers to help get people through the day, and other such things. Tender eventually gets fed up, finds a means (not spoiling), of ruining the Super Bowl, and decides to end his life in a plane crash into the Australian outback.

 

This book is not pure entertainment, even though it has you engaged the entire time, but also brings about some points in modern society. Such as free-will, commericalism, and nihilism.

 

This book is probably the best read I have had yet. Once I started to read, I literally couldn't put t down. I seriously stayed up all night reading. This gets 5/5.

[RearEndCollision]

While this isn't my call by any means, I'd say that book reviews should be done in their own separate topic and would hopefully be more in depth. I personally feel that a review that short is completely write off able, and wouldn't affect my opinion as whether to read the book. Plus, in their own topics they will have a great effect upon the topic readers because not only does it single an individual book out but also allows for discussion on that individual book rather then the clutter that could come to this topic very quickly.

 

But, again, not my call.

[Ryunday]

 

While this isn't my call by any means, I'd say that book reviews should be done in their own separate topic and would hopefully be more in depth. I personally feel that a review that short is completely write off able, and wouldn't affect my opinion as whether to read the book. Plus, in their own topics they will have a great effect upon the topic readers because not only does it single an individual book out but also allows for discussion on that individual book rather then the clutter that could come to this topic very quickly.

 

But, again, not my call.

I see what your getting at, but I think having this topic would be a better alternative then having numerous threads for individual books. There is no limit to how much a person has to right about a book and how in-depth they have to go with it, so posting your opinions in this topic could still be as affective and would save space on the forum. I also don’t think clutter would be an issue seeing as how I got the idea for this thread from this topic in the Movies and TV section, which seems to be going well and even got pinned. But even if people did make topics to discuses a particular book this topic could still be useful. Not only could people still give a review of a book here they could also ad a link to a topic about that book for more in-depth discussion. Then this topic could also be used as a directory.

Edited August 25, 2007 by Ryunday

[RearEndCollision]

Fair enough.

[Mokiesmoky]

Eragon = 10 / 5. Is that okay?

[Ryunday]

Eragon = 10 / 5. Is that okay?

Well the point of this topic is to review books, not just post one line about them. Do you think you could write something about it.

[Mokiesmoky]

Yes Ma'am. Hopefully people will read this since I took time to write it:

 

Eragon is a young farm boy, living with his uncle and cousin. Everything changed when he found an egg, which turned out to be a dragon egg. The king, Galbatorix, is interested in it so he could control the next generation of Dragon Riders. Dragons riders are all gone, except for Galbatorix himself, who has a dragon named Shruiken.

 

When Eragon's egg hatched, bird like creatures named the Razac came and killed his uncle. He tries to chase after them, meeting Brom along the way who is an ex dragon rider. When they found the Razac, it attacked them and Brom got killed. Eragon then met Murtagh, saved an Elf named Arya and crossed the desert in search for a group the Varden, a group who protect people from the Evil king.

 

Eragon helps them go into war against the king's army and they win, but Murtagh dies in the process.

 

Overall, I loved this book. The movie for it, sucked though. Trust me, it sucked. Don't be biased by the movie.

 

 

[tommy vs. claude]

Yes Ma'am. Hopefully people will read this since I took time to write it:

 

Eragon is a young farm boy, living with his uncle and cousin. Everything changed when he found an egg, which turned out to be a dragon egg. The king, Galbatorix, is interested in it so he could control the next generation of Dragon Riders. Dragons riders are all gone, except for Galbatorix himself, who has a dragon named Shruiken.

 

When Eragon's egg hatched, bird like creatures named the Razac came and killed his uncle. He tries to chase after them, meeting Brom along the way who is an ex dragon rider. When they found the Razac, it attacked them and Brom got killed. Eragon then met Murtagh, saved an Elf named Arya and crossed the desert in search for a group the Varden, a group who protect people from the Evil king.

 

Eragon helps them go into war against the king's army and they win, but Murtagh dies in the process.

 

Overall, I loved this book. The movie for it, sucked though. Trust me, it sucked. Don't be biased by the movie.

read both of the books, i wonder when the third one will come out though

[gta phil gta]

Now I've not read aforementioned books so I'm not sure whether or not I'm correct in assuming this, but from the reviews put forth, it seems like I may be correct.

 

In a review, you are supposed to describe the book and different aspects of it - not tell the story. It seems to me like that's all people are doing - writing out a synopsis of the story - and potentially spoiling things from it in the process.

 

What's the point in that?

[Ryunday]

I agree with you gta phil gta, a review is an assessment of something and that’s what I tried to do when I reviewed The I Chong. So for anyone else who reviews a book please if you talk about the storyline of the book just give a summary of the plot and don’t give anything away that could potentially ruin it for the reader.

Edited August 25, 2007 by Ryunday