It's the Good-est.

When I watched the Christian Bale movie, The Machinist, I was upset by the ending because I decided, because of the ending's revelations, watching the movie again would not be pleasurable.

But The Machinist is, nevertheless, a great movie, in my opinion. I actually think its high time I watch it again, now that AI mention it.

Well both these things are true of Good Reception.

I don't know where I came across his book or how it ended up being one of my favorite sci-fi poems of all time. What I do know is that the entire time I was reading it, I kept looking forward to reading it again...only the ending is sooo revelatory, just as with The Machinist, or Fight Club.

Funny how I don't consider Fight Club and The Machinist to be in the same league, as films. I wonder if this is why the uber revelatory ending of Fight Club is less bothersome.

Or perhaps David Fincher, in directing Fight Club, anticipated his audience, in particular, any possible repeat viewings; thus leaving us Easter eggs along the way, parts of the movie that now make a different kind of sense.

I'm sure The Machinist has some of those.

What I'm super excited about discovering, as I start Good Reception for the 2nd time is, do I have any Easter eggs waiting for me?

It's The Savviest

Review for:

The Savvy Solopreneur's Guide To Content Creation 

(5.0 out of 10)

Short and sweet is good. I guess I would have liked a little more rounding out. I instantly trust this writer, in terms of wisdom, but her own words undercut her at least twice, in my opinion.

First, tongue in cheek, don't read her book, read the rewritten version that I'll be writing, based on Barnes' own suggestion that solopreneurs do this, generally and openly.

Second, this is indicative of an overarching cynicism based on milking customers for moolah, which I didn't care for.

The Maze Runner (review)

I was pleasantly surprised upon finishing the YA novel, The Maze Runner, that all the reviews I could find were negative. It's a relief becaus I had every intention of writing a scathing review, but now I don't have to -- its a terrible book, but it has a plot that'll try to just motor you thru to the end, to the sequel.

I'm going to watch the movie, cuz that really has nothing to do with the book -- as in, most good books result in disappointing movies because there is so much to live up to. With the Maze Runner, here's hoping the reverse is also true.

Question: how long till we officially recognize the genre of 'Government Experimentation Novel?' I don't think they are going away any time soon. In fact, that's what drew me to Hunger Games, Divergent, & this piece of garbage. I'm even going to continue in the series, only because I want to read more novels in this genre, but can't easily find them, as the genre is not official in any way.

But it's so bad.

Am I really going to plow thru this tetralogy:

Alan Watts & Some Books I'm Reading

It's a little blurry.
For clarification, that's:

Rewire --  a brain book / healthy habit / science-based self help type thing.

Steve Jobs  -- biography.

Canine Body Language -- lots of pictures.

The Second Coming of Christ -- written by the same guy that wrote Autobiography of a Yogi, a book I don't really like that Steve Jobs happened to read multiple times.

The Glass Castle -- Family-based fiction; probably my least favorite of all the books I'm reading.

Living Downstream -- nonfiction book about cancer getting out of control in the United States.

&

My personal favorite, a book I've been meaning to read for a very long time. It's mentioned & referenced in so many other books -- Julian Jaynes' classic: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind -- all about how recent consciousness is & how recently in history humans used the word "god" to refer to the voices they couldn't integrate, coming from their own right hemispheres.