I absolutely love this one!
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Dead on Demand..I continue on
The beginning of Chapter 2 introduced Yosef, and his first born son. We learn that as time passes, at a very young age, his son is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease. It is incurable, and his son will slowly lose his sight, hearing, and the ability to move and breathe on his own. He will die very young. They will make him as comfortable as possible, but he vows to himself he will not let his son suffer in agony. (We all see where this is going, right?)
Back to Edwin, who decides to not off his wife, because of course he is going to get caught. Yet as the debt piles up, he again revisits the idea, and posts a straight-to-the-point post looking for someone to do the deed for him. He gets a reply rather quickly, and starts figuring out how he would pay for this service. In between all of this, he is job-searching, and has a great prospect lined up.
Realizing he cannot pay cash or touch any money in his bank, he decides the best option is to trade one favor for another. He now has to post a new advert on the internet.
At the beginning of chapter 4 we are introduced to Vanhi, a prostitute in central London. (Did I forget to tell you that this story takes place across the “big pond”? Sorry about that.) After she takes care of a client, she cleans herself and her apartment up before Jaison, her boyfriend?, gets back from work. He is a cleaner.
I am sensing an Alfred Hitchcock story going on here. Strangers on a Train, anyone? I love that movie 🙂
So I will keep plodding along on this story. Apparently it was written in less than 90 days (intentionally) and has seriously mixed reviews online. Apparently numerous spelling and punctuation errors as well, which I haven’t seen yet.
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Dead On Demand-Daniel Campbell & Sean Campbell
I am really hoping that the best thing about this story is not the title. I have to say I have only read the first chapter, but all through that first chapter I kept asking myself “Do I really want to keep reading this?”
Why was I thinking this? Mainly because this story does one thing I do not like in the books I read: it introduces a whole town’s worth of characters and all the twisted ways they may or may not be linked together. Most books take a while to do this, but I think this book did it all in the first chapter. At least I hope they did it all in the first chapter, because if the next one or two chapters do this, it will be the second book in my lifetime that I could not finish. It reminds me of reading “The Casual Vacancy” by J.K. Rowling. The only book I read from front to back and had no idea what I had just read when I finished it. (Honestly, I would sell that book at a yard sale or donate it to my local library but I would not want to be responsible for someone else reading that book).
So in chapter one, we meet Edwin, over-worker to avoid his wife, Eleanor. Drew, their son that died, and Chelsea, their daughter that lived. Betty, who is Edwin’s secretary. Derek Wood, the owner of the newspaper that Edwin works for. Wood’s personal assistant, so-far unnamed. Palmer, advertising employee for the paper. Mark, Edwin’s brother-in-law. Caroline Flack, Edwin’s just obtained divorce attorney. Jeremy Kyle, news reporter and likely Eleanor’s new boyfriend.
Now, they did not give a huge backstory for all of the characters I just mentioned (just most), but they were all mentioned; in the first chapter. 16 pages.
Now the first sentence of chapter two, and when I stopped reading this morning? “When his first son was born, Yosef Gershwin had paced back and forth frantically.” (page 17).
Having a sneaking suspicion I was about to learn all about Yosef, his son, and his extended family, I had to stop reading. I will pick it back up; but if too many more characters get added to this story, it is going back on the bookshelf, gathering dust, never to be looked at again.
The meaning of this story? Edwin is online, looking for someone to take care of a problem he has. Yep; that problem.
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Friday’s Fun Facts
Author: Lewis Carroll
Born: January 27, 1832
Died: January 14, 1898
Wrote: Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland, The Hunting of the Snark, Sylvie and Bruno.
Interesting Facts: Lewis had a stutter as he was growing up. He began writing stories and poetry at a very young age. He also had a knack for mathematics. He continually encouraged letter-writing, inventing a penny stamp holder, and wrote and received over 90,000 letters.
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Friday Fun Facts!
Author: Jules Verne
Born: February 8, 1828
Died: March 24, 1905
Wrote: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island, From the Earth to the Moon, and numerous others (over 70)
Interesting facts: Jules earned a law degree and set up a practice in France in 1850. He is the 2nd most translated author, behind Agatha Christie. His nephew, Gaston, tried to murder Jules. He shot at him twice, hitting him once in the knee, for which he had a limp the remainder of his life. He is referred to as “The Father of Science Fiction”.
Quote: Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Tuesday’s Thought For The Day!
It doesn’t get truer than this! (Is truer a word? LOL)
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The Silkworm-J.K. Rowling
I was super-happy to see that Robert Galbraith (AKA J.K. Rowling) has a summer release for the 2nd book about Detective Cormoran Strike. I really enjoyed “The Cuckoo’s Calling”, and really wish I had read it before I knew J.K. wrote it. I really do believe I would have picked it up at some point and read it (these types of books are what I prefer), but knowing the real author had me getting it within days. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book.
After reading The Casual Vacancy, I was so confused I couldn’t even begin to put a storyline together for that. So I definitely understand her choosing to write anonymously; I cannot imagine the pressure she felt having to follow Harry Potter. But what I do not understand is why she is still putting the name Robert Galbraith on the cover. Is there anyone who still does not know she is writing this series?
Anyhow, I will be getting this book on 6-24-2014 when it’s released. Are you going to be reading this book as well?
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Tuesday’s Thought For The Day!
Harry Potter anyone? 😀
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We Now Interrupt This Program For This Important Service Announcement
Being that I am on a mini-vacation, and at my favorite hotel/casino, the only Friday Fun Facts I am posting is that I’m not posting my Friday Fun Facts 🙂
so here’s to wishing you all an amazing weekend, with a warm home, a cuppa something, and a good book in your hand!
Oh, and Happy Valentine’s Day too! Don’t eat too much chocolate (is that even possible?)
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Friday Fun Facts!
Washington Irving
Born: April 3, 1783
Died: November 28, 1859
Wrote: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, assorted biographies
Quote: There is a legend that on the night of his death, Wahington Irving said “Well, I must arrange my pillows for another night. When will this end?”
Some Facts: Died in Tarrytown, NY, which is right next to Sleepy Hollow. As America’s first genuine internationally best-selling author.
Irving and his grave were commemorated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1876 poem, “In The Churchyard at Tarrytown”, which concludes with:
How sweet a life was his; how sweet a death!
Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours, Or with romantic tales the heart to cheer; Dying, to leave a memory like the breath Of summers full of sunshine and of showers,
A grief and gladness in the atmosphere
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