books

this one is pretty good. walter mosley is a real writer that for some reason likes to dip into crime novels (that is where he makes money peddeling pulp)for some reason i am loving these tough guy private detective novels... easy reads, a good mystery and an underdog hero.

this book is stupid. chuck palahniuk is good if you are between the ages of 15-22 but after that you sort of see through his teenage angst and lack of ability. this one is told from the point of view of a terrorist sleeper cell memeber (from china) and of course has a lot of jabs making fun of americans, our mini vans, our fatness and reality tv shows. there is potential here, except palahniuk is lazy and writes the story in some broken english dialog that reads like this. "Location former chew gum, chocolate snack, salted chips of potato, current now occupy with cylinder which paraffin encase burning string, many tiny single fire."
sounds like a retard is telling the story... this "agent" apperently knows words like "cylinder" and "paraffin" but is unable to string them together in a sentence.