Lina

A fast paced family drama. Quick read. I can imagine Billy being quite menacing in performance.

The book starts strong, but gets lost in the POV hopping. It's hard to feel attached to the four main characters due to the switching around. The last third of the book unraveled in a jumble of supernatural elements, 

Anna Deavere Smith's work is better watched than read, but it is compelling regardless of medium. Fantastic documentation of those involved in the 1992 LA Riots and those events surrounding it.

I can't imagine anyone but John Leguizamo performing these monologues. This show definitely lays the groundwork for his more recent work.

This book just wasn't for me. The book is poetic and descriptive for the sake of being poetic and descriptive. It waxes on and on about the Earth to the point that I couldn't follow what was supposed to be happening. I wish we could have spent more time with the actual characters. The narrator was fantastic with the different accents and the dense descriptions.