Hell: A Novel.

[hippywife]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-book31-2009aug31,0,3816136.story

I just heard an interview with the author on our local NPR affiliate. What an intriguing book. Sounds like a pretty good read. Anyone else picked this up yet?

[Jim__]

1. Sounds like an interesting and entertaining book.

I can't imagine why anyone unrec'd this thread.

[hippywife]

2. LOL!

I hadn't even noticed that. :rofl:

[Pat Riot]

3. Hell wouldn't be hell

if all your exes weren't there.

Hi. Just found this forum last night.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

10. Welcome !

Hope you enjoy the forum, I sure do. Lots of great book recommendations received.

[MrCoffee]

4. I fondled it a great deal at the library this past weekend

but ended up putting it back on the shelf.


Maybe I'll go back for it.

[MrCoffee]

5. I finally read it, and HOLY CRAP IS IT WEIRD

It's a good read, but a really really strange read.

[hippywife]

6. I'm reading it now. You're right, it is very weird.

But strangely amusing at the same time. I just got to the part where he is starting to interview Satan so I've got a ways to go yet, even though it's a small book. I just keep waiting to see who's going to pop up next.


:hi:

[hippywife]

7. I finished this last night.

Did you read the inside cover sleeve, under the author's photo? The name of the photographer of the author? LOL

[MrCoffee]

9. Ohh, I missed that!

Whisper it to me!!!

[hippywife]

12. PM to you. n/t

[Dr. Strange]

8. I just checked it out from the library.

[hippywife]

11. I think YOU are really going to enjoy it.

:rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

14. No matter how I slice it, that comment does NOT sound good.

:P

[hippywife]

15. LOL.

[raccoon]

13. Is it set in the South and in summertime? nt

[lucas_g20]

16. i'm dying to read it

[Dr. Strange]

17. So this is the novelized version of Sartre's quote "Hell is other people."

Or is it the opposite of that quote?

For some reason, I found the last five or six pages completely predictable and completely enjoyable. I just loved the ending!

[hippywife]

18. Did you notice the photo credit for

the photo of the author on the back inside sleeve? Glad you liked it. :hi:

[Dr. Strange]

19. Yes I did.

(Thanks to your comment to the Coffee dude above.) :)