Tag: how did a book that tells the end at the beginning and deals with religious cults not be awesome for me?

When my work book club met to discuss Empire Falls (which, oops, I never reviewed), one of our members expressed her dissatisfaction with the low level of sexiness in any of the books we have read so far, and her intention to choose for us something sexy like Anais Nin for the next book club book. Instead she ended up selecting three very unsexy options, of which we selected — I suspect — the least sexy option of all, Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor. I have discovered that I have very, very little patience with ennui in literature and film. If a…