The 'abandoned book' Tag Archive

Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word abandoned book. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

July 18th, 2009

Giving up on Kingdom Come

Holy Shit, Batman! This is one incomprehensible, incredibly confusing, and ultimately boring comic book. After much heated debate (Kingdom Come vs. American Born Chinese), this craptastic superhero graphic novel became Rock & Roll Bookclub’s July pick (it won in a random drawing). It’s been about two years since R&RBC picked a book so shitty I [...]

February 22nd, 2009

Giving up on Watchmen

I’ve been slowly picking through Watchmen since about September. I’d get so far in the book and then come to the poorly written autobiography stuff and stop. I’d pick it up a few weeks later and have to start all over from the beginning because I had no idea what was going on. During the [...]

June 27th, 2008

Why I’m giving up on Blake Nelson’s Girl

And so I started reading Girl by Blake Nelson because it’s rock and roll June and I was so sick of non-fiction I could barf. Plus, it helped that the book had been sitting my shelf for about six years. And I knew the book was supposed to be about grunge music, alternative nation, and [...]