TENEBRINI’s Comments (group member since Dec 29, 2007)

TENEBRINI’s comments from the GigPosters Book-Nerders group.

I'll give it some thought and report back.

I am. I'm almost done.

Long AND depressing. Largely a part of why it's taking me so long to read it. It's a good book though.

Works for me. It's taken the better part of 6 months for me to work through it so I figure I can probably read the last 2 chapters by the end of February.

A bleak picture painted indeed. Having 2 small children I can't even imagine dealing with those circumstances.

I finished the book over the weekend.

I had read a bunch of negative reviews of this book so I guess without getting into discussion before people are ready, all I'll say is that I enjoyed it and if this is not one of his better books (according to the naysayers) I'm looking forward to reading one of his "good" ones.

Having young kids myself this book was a little disturbing. I've started stockpiling canned goods and shotgun shells.

I started reading this last night. It's hard to put down. Mostly because there are no chapters and I generally use them to plan my reading sessions.

Without chapters I just kept reading and reading, until I looked at the clock and realized I needed to get back to work. I'm about 1/4 through it after one sitting.

Sounds good to me.

I saw No Country for Old Men over the long weekend and am ready to read one of that guy's books.

I finish Eggers tonight.

I'm reading "What is the What" by Dave Eggers. It's about a refugee from Sudan (one of The Lost Boys) and his experience there and here now that he's in America. Both experiences seem to suck but less suck here (USA) than there (Sudan).

Some of it is pretty harsh and depressing. Makes me feel pretty good about my own life.

It's a pretty easy read but I cant take too much in one sitting. I just read a chapter where just after waking up on the desert floor with a vulture sitting on his leg sizing him up he describes how his best friend sat down under a tree and died of exhaustion, dehydration, malnutrition, loss of hope, etc... and he had to dig a hole with his bare hands a bury him so the birds wouldn't get at him right away.

I'm halfway through my Dave Eggers book which is the first book I've read in well over a year. By brain feels cobwebby.

I'd like to get in on the next read.