Up In The Air
After finishing my frenetic bout of traveling, I thought I'd read "Up In The Air", by Walter Kirn. I saw on Goodreads that this book was frequently shelved under "The Movie Was Better Than The Book", but c'mon man, if your movie has that silver-fox George Clooney, the book often doesn't stand a chance. I also may be a bit biased. A bit.
I read 108 pages at an intermittent pace and that was about all I could take before I woke up from my third attempt at reading this very, very boring book… in a one-hour period! In fact, this was like Inception, a dream-within-a-dream, but I was reading terrible, terrible fiction and I would wake up and realize that I was in the middle of reading some terrible, terrible, fiction and then I would wake up and realize that I had fallen asleep those past two times and now had to finish the book. WELL, NO MORE. Written in 1st person, Ryan Bingham is the well-traveled, well-read, well-bedded d-bag narrator I could very much do well without, thank you very much.
So interesting! I knew this was a book because we had to sell the movie-tie-in edition of it at my store, but you're the first person I know who has read it. Sounds like the film was definitely better for this one!
ReplyDeleteI HAVE TO TRY IT NAHREE BUT I WILL BE PREJUDICED NOW
ReplyDeleteHaha, this was a great "review"! I enjoyed the movie, but I can't for the life of me, see how this would be an interesting book.
ReplyDeleteAll I could do was yawn, Brie! I hit the 50, 75, and 100 page mark and when nothing really happened, I chucked the book back into the library return bin. *yaaaaawn*
ReplyDeleteALICE KUDOS FOR TRYING BUT BE WARNED. DO NOT READ IN BED, YOU WILL NEVER FINISH IT.
ReplyDeleteEmilyyyyy, so sorry for the late response (I was in a 4 day post-thanksgiving-feast-food-coma)! Trust me on this, the movie is much better than the book and also reaffirms my conviction that it's better for me to read and THEN watch, and not the other way around.
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