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So much to love in concept and so much to be frustrated about in execution.
I expected something along the lines of Handmaid’s Tale. What I read was a supposed adult being caught up in a teenagey love triangle while being used as a pawn by both the Illum and the rebels.
I keep reading to the end waiting for any sort of satisfying conclusion that never really came. I hope the prequel coming out next year does a better job of world building because there are so many questions needing answers. Even a cursory overview of “how we got here” would have helped.
I agree with other reviewers that this really is a YA/New Adult level book save for a few sex scenes.
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House - Ballantine for the opportunity to read and review.
So much to love in concept and so much to be frustrated about in execution.
I expected something along the lines of Handmaid’s Tale. What I read was a supposed adult being caught up in a teenagey love triangle while being used as a pawn by both the Illum and the rebels.
I keep reading to the end waiting for any sort of satisfying conclusion that never really came. I hope the prequel coming out next year does a better job of world building because there are so many questions needing answers. Even a cursory overview of “how we got here” would have helped.
I agree with other reviewers that this really is a YA/New Adult level book save for a few sex scenes.
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House - Ballantine for the opportunity to read and review.
Sometimes when I’m wavering on my feelings about a book, I read other reviews to try to make sense of it all. In this case, I found many others in the same confused boat. I wanted to love this book from the outset being a long time fan of Cameron’s movies, writings and previous books. Ultimately it just felt incomplete.
These stories are absolutely worthy of being told and I’m glad they were but it felt like a collection of Rolling Stone story backgrounds and a biography of his mother put together rather than a true autobiography. So much of his life is seemingly intertwined with his mother’s and I kept wanting him to tell his own story outside of hers. The moments of true introspection are fleeting and you’re left desiring more. You also come away from The Uncool hoping for a Part 2. There’s still so much to be told about his life and his filmmaking career.
Thank you to NetGalley, Avid Reader and Simon & Schuster for the opportunity to read and review.
Sometimes when I’m wavering on my feelings about a book, I read other reviews to try to make sense of it all. In this case, I found many others in the same confused boat. I wanted to love this book from the outset being a long time fan of Cameron’s movies, writings and previous books. Ultimately it just felt incomplete.
These stories are absolutely worthy of being told and I’m glad they were but it felt like a collection of Rolling Stone story backgrounds and a biography of his mother put together rather than a true autobiography. So much of his life is seemingly intertwined with his mother’s and I kept wanting him to tell his own story outside of hers. The moments of true introspection are fleeting and you’re left desiring more. You also come away from The Uncool hoping for a Part 2. There’s still so much to be told about his life and his filmmaking career.
Thank you to NetGalley, Avid Reader and Simon & Schuster for the opportunity to read and review.
Like almost everyone else, I picked up this book from having watched Ruby on GBBO years ago. What I regret is not having picked up any of her work earlier.
I thoroughly enjoyed her candid writing style. It felt more conversational than dictatorial (and yes I had her essay on food critics in mind when I wrote this). I thought the mix of historical and cultural with just a touch of snark made it a worthwhile read and I look forward to reading more from her. Definitely recommend this people who love food but also like considering the bigger picture of how food has evolved and influenced/been influenced by society in the past hundred years.
Thank you to Knopf and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review.
Like almost everyone else, I picked up this book from having watched Ruby on GBBO years ago. What I regret is not having picked up any of her work earlier.
I thoroughly enjoyed her candid writing style. It felt more conversational than dictatorial (and yes I had her essay on food critics in mind when I wrote this). I thought the mix of historical and cultural with just a touch of snark made it a worthwhile read and I look forward to reading more from her. Definitely recommend this people who love food but also like considering the bigger picture of how food has evolved and influenced/been influenced by society in the past hundred years.
Thank you to Knopf and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review.
I love receiving an ARC of a book I was already eagerly anticipating. Fresh off his in depth coverage of REM, Peter Ames Carlin goes back to perhaps his favorite writing subject, Bruce Springsteen.
This book is definitely only for the fanatics detailing the daily ins and outs of the physical and psychological experience of recording “Born To Run”. The arduous process is not new information to the majority of Bruce fans. The most impactful part of the book is chronicling the constantly churning insecurity Bruce experiences throughout given the stakes of the album’s success (or lack thereof) and his personal quest for rock and roll perfection.
I’m a Springsteen fan and was raised on the scripture of “Born to Run”. I’ve spoken of the spiritual experience of a Bruce show. That said, at times the book teetered on the edge of being too worshippy even for me.
Thank you to NetGalley and Doubleday for the opportunity to read and review.
I love receiving an ARC of a book I was already eagerly anticipating. Fresh off his in depth coverage of REM, Peter Ames Carlin goes back to perhaps his favorite writing subject, Bruce Springsteen.
This book is definitely only for the fanatics detailing the daily ins and outs of the physical and psychological experience of recording “Born To Run”. The arduous process is not new information to the majority of Bruce fans. The most impactful part of the book is chronicling the constantly churning insecurity Bruce experiences throughout given the stakes of the album’s success (or lack thereof) and his personal quest for rock and roll perfection.
I’m a Springsteen fan and was raised on the scripture of “Born to Run”. I’ve spoken of the spiritual experience of a Bruce show. That said, at times the book teetered on the edge of being too worshippy even for me.
Thank you to NetGalley and Doubleday for the opportunity to read and review.
I love receiving an ARC of a book I was already eagerly anticipating. Fresh off his in depth coverage of REM, Peter Ames Carlin goes back to perhaps his favorite writing subject, Bruce Springsteen.
This book is definitely only for the fanatics detailing the daily ins and outs of the physical and psychological experience of recording “Born To Run”. The arduous process is not new information to the majority of Bruce fans. The most impactful part of the book is chronicling the constantly churning insecurity Bruce experiences throughout given the stakes of the album’s success (or lack thereof) and his personal quest for rock and roll perfection.
I’m a Springsteen fan and was raised on the scripture of “Born to Run”. I’ve spoken of the spiritual experience of a Bruce show. That said, at times the book teetered on the edge of being too worshippy even for me.
Thank you to NetGalley and Doubleday for the opportunity to read and review.
I love receiving an ARC of a book I was already eagerly anticipating. Fresh off his in depth coverage of REM, Peter Ames Carlin goes back to perhaps his favorite writing subject, Bruce Springsteen.
This book is definitely only for the fanatics detailing the daily ins and outs of the physical and psychological experience of recording “Born To Run”. The arduous process is not new information to the majority of Bruce fans. The most impactful part of the book is chronicling the constantly churning insecurity Bruce experiences throughout given the stakes of the album’s success (or lack thereof) and his personal quest for rock and roll perfection.
I’m a Springsteen fan and was raised on the scripture of “Born to Run”. I’ve spoken of the spiritual experience of a Bruce show. That said, at times the book teetered on the edge of being too worshippy even for me.
Thank you to NetGalley and Doubleday for the opportunity to read and review.
