Member: arouse77

Noticed you liked Fight Club, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a disturbed bunch of kids and a bit dark :) I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit.

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 6:16 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2009

I am adding the last of my books to Librarything and on adding a paperback Tom Sawyer i briefly scanned it again and then boxed it up (for I keep my collection in the basement in numbered boxes) wondering who would read it again. My grandchildren had it as part of books read in high school freshman English. The other child in the group of shorter novels on the list was To Kill a Mockingbird, and interesting contrast to Tom.

Your take on him as a really bad boy was interesting.

The scene that has stayed with me is still the first, when he cons his friends to help paint the fence. And as a girl reading it Becky was probably more interesting to me than Tom and certainly Huck.

posted by carterchristian1 at 12:14 pm (EST) on Jul 22, 2009

I agree with you about "Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran Desai.

posted by senafernando at 11:13 am (EST) on Oct 30, 2008