By: David Elzey,
on 2/8/2008
by S. E. Hinton Delacorte 1975 Did I really reread this? Did I need to? Man, this thing didn't age well. Rusty-James thinks he's the the world on a string. Kid brother to the infamous Motorcycle Boy, RJ walks around honestly believe he has his older brother's smarts, looks and charisma to run the gangs of their midwest town. But RJ isn't any of those things, and where his brother used the
By: Gregory K. Pincus,
on 4/28/2007
BOOK REPORT ON THE DICTIONARY
by
Gregory K.
I found the plot missing,
The dialog weak.
I kept waiting and waiting for someone to speak.
The characters bored me.
In fact, there weren’t any!
The jokes were not funny, and there weren’t too many.
The book started slowly.
The middle lacked energy.
And what type of ending is “zymotic, zymurgy”?
The authors have talent
But need to refine it...
'Cause if there's a point here, they failed to define it.
(I'm posting an original poem-a-day through April in celebration of National Poetry Month. Links to this and other poems here on GottaBook (and there are lots of others, because poetry is NOT just for April) are collected over on the right of the blog under the headline "The Poems".)
The perils of late night blogging are such that the first time I posted this poem, I failed to include the fourth stanza. Oops. So, for those of you who read it with only three... come back! The rest of you slept through such drama quite impressively.
Greg,
Your poetry-writing stamina and creativity are amazing (even when you do leave out the last stanza). You're a cross between Ogden Nash and the energizer bunny :-)
Thanks, Terry, though more for the Nash than bunny part. :-) And I know you could do a joke a day for... well... you could go way longer than I can with poetry, I betcha. And no, that is NOT a challenge!
This is great.
!!!