Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Nope nope nope

Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers by Robert Schnakenberg

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So I knew this book would be trashy, but I didn’t expect it to be actual trash. I’m gonna finish it, but I hated this book enough that I couldn’t wait to be done to start my review. (Edit: I finished it. It also states that Jack Nicholson got his break playing the crazed dental patient in Little Shop of Horrors – he was masochistic, but it was the dentist who was crazed – and credits Yeardley Smith as the voice of Bart Simpson when she’s actually […]

What in the world is the purpose of this book? I am genuinely curious.

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This review will contain spoilers, so if you want to avoid knowing all the details of the sparse and meaningless plot, maybe skip the first couple of paragraphs. Holden Caulfield is a self-important, spoiled and worthless little shit. At the start of the book, he is cooling his heels at the fourth boarding school he’s been expelled from because he just can’t be bothered to even try to apply himself (having failed four out of five subjects completely), and generally bitching about how phony his […]

Just Bad

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I’m known for being quite sarcastic. I know that some people find sarcasm to be the lowest form of communication; I’m okay with that. So it isn’t surprising that, as part of a trio of joke gifts (the other items being a screaming pickle and a Jesus refrigerator magnet set), my husband and I were gifted this book by our friends. It is so bad. I don’t know what they were going for, but unless it was unoriginality, they missed the mark. I know that […]



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