Was prompted to read this because I caught part of the movie on HBO. Liked what I saw and then found out it was also a book. Just had to read it.
#WonderBoys #MichaelChabon #ebook #movie #kindle
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Wonder Boys | 
Was prompted to read this because I caught part of the movie on HBO. Liked what I saw and then found out it was also a book. Just had to read it.
#WonderBoys #MichaelChabon #ebook #movie #kindle
pickThe story takes place over a weekend and involves the antics of a writer whose life is crashing down around him. I loved his character and that of his friends. Heading to the couch to rewatch the movie right now. 💙🛋🥔
pickNot a favorite. Irv was about the only likable character, and the self-destructive behaviors of all the main characters had me shaking my head in disgust. When the main characters are always drunk or stoned or both, one chapter at the end where he suddenly becomes a clean, sober, responsible father didn‘t cut it. Good writing, hard to appreciate it through all the improbable plot points, saved it from being a so-so. #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks
Amélie wore herself out chasing the evil red dot, so I guess I‘ll try to get into this book. I‘m halfway through and I just can‘t care about any of the characters. #doublespin
I have a mixed experience with Chabon, loving some of his books while others, eh, not so much. This is my #doublespin so we‘ll see what happens. @TheAromaofBooks
“...she would consume all the magazines and newspapers in the house—reading, to her, was a kind of pyromania—and when these ran out she would reach for insurance brochures, advertising circulars, sheets of coupons.”
bailedThis may be a case of wrong time for this book as I have loved Chabon's other books. I usually finish books even if it takes me a while but I could not drum up any enthusiasm for any of the characters in the book. 😞
I do still want to understand how the plot is wrapped up so I think I am going to resort to the movie for this and to put this book away.
My hardback books are generally left languishing on my shelves longer than my paperbacks because I usually do alot of my reading on the go. Decided to at least try and get one off my TBR stack since I am stuck at home with no where to go.
pick
This is a wild ride of a story about what ambition looks like in the bloom of youth and at the opening of old age. It‘s a story about the abuse of time. And the writing! The mic is dropped on about every third page. To wit, “...he likes to caution and amuse his young companions with case histories of the incurable disease that leads all good writers to suffer, inevitably, the quintessential fate of their characters.”
"A few other couples joined us on the dance floor and we lost ourselves among them. I'd never been able to figure out exactly what was involved in slow dancing, so I contented myself, as I had since high school, with gripping my partner to me, letting out awkward breaths against her ear, and tipping from foot to foot like someone waiting for a bus. I could feel the sweat cooling on her forearms and smell a trace of apples in her hair."
#breathe
I appreciate that this book features a relationship common in my social circles but rarely seen in fiction—a deep and lasting friendship between a straight man and a gay man.
“‘That's a big trunk,‘ James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. ‘It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly.‘
‘That's just what they used to say in the ads,‘ I said...”
- James and Grady discuss trunk #space
#QuotsyFeb18
@callielafleur is doing an #Outlanderfortheholidays giveaway! 😊One of my very favorite novel-to-movie adaptations is Michael Chabon‘s Wonder Boys. I love everyone in this movie and it captures the spirit of the novel perfectly!
so-soAn intellectual version of The Hangover, with a splash of Californication. Tries to pull back from pretentiousness by inserting silly names and gags. Some very nice passages and some laugh-out-loud moments. But overall I just didn't care what happened to Grady Tripp, and neither did he. Half wish I had just watched the movie instead.
He keeps saying that! To everyone. And he doesn't even know, he just guesses. And assumes "transvestite" rather than "trans person". Asshat.
Ok, I looked it up and the book is from 1995. The main character is still an asshat. In so many ways. But I'm pretty sure the author wants us to think his character is an asshat, so ok. I just hope someone calls him on his asshat attitude soon.
pickLoved this book. I wasn't expecting it to be so much fun. Had never read Chabon before and was delighted by his wit, talent with well-written but not overly convoluted sentences, and his dark humor. Just what my summer needed.
"They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could get."
Love Chabon's sense of humor! ?
"The first real writer I ever knew was a man who did all of his work under the name of August Van Zorn..." #firstlines
pickNo surprises this is a Pick. I read it slowly to savour the writing. Oh and despite my bookmark the movie is brilliant. #read2017
Just read your book and leave me alone mum! Sleepy Vizsla pic for @LauraBeth
Fingers crossed I like this better... I adore the movie - it totally changed my view of Michael Douglas!
So this week I've discovered I don't have a single book with #starsandstripes on the cover but I do have a book with #redwhiteandblue on the cover and it's by an author from USA to salute all those celebrating it's Independence Day.
#jubilantjuly @RealLifeReading
P.S. I loved this book ❤
#bookmail... Wonder Boys with my wonder boys... Also there's a dog nose under that lolly waiting hopefully
"A few other couples joined us on the dance floor and we lost ourselves among them. I'd never been able to figure out exactly what was involved in slow dancing, so I contented myself, as I had since high school, with gripping my partner to me, letting out awkward breaths against her ear, and tipping from foot to foot like someone waiting for a bus. I could feel the sweat cooling on her forearms and smell a trace of apples in her hair."
I'm sitting in the parking lot of my church, alone in my car, windows down, drinking coffee, mentally prepping for rector interviews, and reading Wonder Boys. Everything about this morning is fantastic.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: one of my favorite books is on sale for less than the cost of the hipster donut I bought this morning.
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bailedI just didn't like it. It's wonderfully well done, but not at all my thing.
According to Wikipedia, all he got wrong was that poor Peg jumped off the letter 'H.'
pickWhy did I just read a mad book about a middle-aged, pot-addled, self-obsessed, writer's-blocked author and his absurdly unlikely adventures? Because it's Michael Chabon and, my God, can the man write. Ancient pet snakes? Disastrous family Passovers? Accidental shootings? Adopted Korean Jews? I'm in. Hilarious, heartbreaking and genius. #TacklingTheTBR
