Insidious 2

Insidious  2 was freaking awesome. I was really in doubt about the previews I had seen about this movie. I was quite skeptical that it could produce the same effect of the first one. I was wrong! Oh so wrong! This movie was not only really good it was cohesive and well thought out. I mean for those of you who have seen the first one you know that obviously it was going to come with a sequel but what you couldn't expect was the story behind the veil. Then it ties in oh so well with the first, I mean its, just ughh,.... I don't want to say anymore. Trust me that's its really good and you should watch it if you enjoyed the first one. I can't wait for chapter 3, I'm pretty sure there will be one but without the main characters of the first and second installments but do not fear, if the writers remain the same then we shall having nothing to fear but fear itself. The only thing I didn't like about the movie was that it was badly marketed.. well it seemed less interesting but I guess in retrospect I kind of like it because you really were in for a  surprise.

Petals on the Wind

Petals on the Wind by V.C Andrews:

The continuing story of the Dollanganger family and it picks up right after the other book. The family is taken in by a wonderful doctor and they grow up under his watchful gaze.

                                    *SPOILER ALERT*

ok so I can’t really divulge anything without spoiler alert because its hard not to say anything. It isn’t as incestuous as I thought, Christopher never touches his sister again as she is growing up and none of her children and up being his. The doctor takes them in as he is infatuated by Cathy who is by far a huge tease and she knows it. Carrie is sent away to a boarding school and is consequently tortured by her underdevelopment. Chris studies hard and has tutelage from his benefactor the doctor so he can get thru medical school as quickly as possible. Cathy does become a famous ballerina and fucks the doctor and then in a fit of anger breaks their engagement and marries her dance partner. Julian makes her wish she never had when she finally realizes that she loves him he breaks her toes and then gets himself in a terrible car wreck rendering him unable to ever dance again. Upon hearing this tidbit of news he cuts his iv needle and kills himself. Cathy finally realizes she loves him and then goes to Foxworth Hall and is determined to seduce her mother’s husband and take him away from her. She succeeds and then when she gets pregnant she decides to unveil her plan, looking exactly like her mother 20 years ago she reveals the truth to everyone. Bart Winslow, her mother’s husband, takes her and her mother into the study where the old Grandmother is also waiting and her mother finally cops to all the horrible things she has ever done. Then the mom sets fire to the  house and Winslow dies. Cathy goes back and marries Paul and he dies and she marries Chris. They leave with their two children (one Julian’s the other Winslow’s ). Oh and Carrie dies she also kills herself.

Bitch Please!

This book was sad and pretty good I was annoyed with everyone telling Cathy how desirable she is and how they all pretty much rape her with the exception of Paul who is a gentleman and would never do that. Then there’s the whole brother obsession thing. I don’t know I won’t read the other books in the series they’re too depressing and honestly sometimes she goes overboard with the rape scenes. I think that its half well written and half ridiculous. Cathy is so miserable blaming shit on her mother she just can’t let herself be happy until she destroyed her. You know what I think I would have immediately seen that my mother went to prison and then lived my life in a wholly new way, trying to erase the horrible shit I’d been through. Overall the series wasn’t so bad it was better than some other stuff I’ve read and it was engrossing.

Her Fearful Symmetry

 

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger:

The story revolves around two different sets of twins. The latter twins are 21 years old and haven’t really decided what to do in life or how to go about it. They are content with sitting at home and watching the tube, reading and enjoying each others companies. The other twins are the mothers of the younger twins. Elspeth and Edie are twins who let a horrible secret keep them apart for years. Julia and Valentina are a product of Edie and her husband Jack. While on her deathbed Elspeth bequeaths her apartment and all her worldly belongings to her nieces. So Valentina and Julia make the valiant decision to move to England and inhabit the home of an aunt they never knew. There’s all the side story of the other residents of the building, Robert, Elspeths lover/life mate. Martin and Marijke a couple whom are basically the silver lining of the book. Without them the book would be a dreary history of a cemetery, selfish people and body robbing oh and twin things.

Bitch Please!

This is where the book ends being interesting and begins to get boring because the story seriously starts to get boring. The man upstairs Martin has OCD and he can’t leave his apartment the annoying twin Julia goes to visit him and discovers that she likes him immensely so she keeps going to keep him company. Here’s the thing the guy Robert who was in love with Elspeth is afraid of going to see the twins and avoids them and finally goes to see them and falls in love with Valentina. Remember I had just read Flowers in the Attic so this was the overall theme of the week. Uncles marrying nieces. What I hated most about this book was that Elspeth who was dead came back as a ghost. I wanted the twins to go on an adventure and figure out the dark secret their mother was hiding and then live a fulfilled semi separate life. But Valentina my initial favorite sister turned out to be selfish and stupid. *Spoiler Alert*

Valentina is a fucked up bitch, in her desperate attempt to leave Julia’s side she decides to kill herself with the help of Elspeth’s soul. She deserved to never figure out how to get back into her body because she was selfish. She didn’t care that she was making her parents heart break or that she was going to abandon Julia. I hate Elspeth for knowing beforehand she was never going to let Valentina back into her body and befriending her anyway. I hate that Julia was left alone and sad and couldn’t move on with her life. My favorite part of the book was Julia’s interaction with Martin. I definitely liked the idea of a man living with OCD and aided by a young curious girl who was determined to help him trump his fear and reunite his wife. In fact I vote for Ms. N to take this story and revamp it with different names and then make it a book. It would have been better than what she eventually presented in manuscript. This was really frustrating to read. I didn’t like how it ended, not even how Valentina figured out how to be free. I wish I hadn’t read this before Cather in the Rye and after Flowers in the Attic. Vomit.

Catcher in the Rye

 

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger:

 

 

I’ve heard about this book about a hundred different ways and I imagined a hundred different scenarios this book could introduce. Therefore I was tremendously unprepared for what I ended up with. The book is about a guy named Holden and his three day journey in New York after he gets kicked out of his prep school. That’s it. Seriously that’s all this “Amazing” novel was all about. A piece of ass rich kid named Holden (what kind of name is that?) who kind of haunts New York.

Bitch Please!

I had so many problems with this book, starting with the premise, the whole idea. This little bitch kid that has some issues and who’s always had some issue applying himself in school, if his retelling of history is to be trusted, gets kicked out and decides to go to New York. Wait, I’m skimping on the details, first he decides to hang out with the guy next door whom he hates and then he hangs out with his roommate whom he thinks is underneath him and shallow. Later he gets jealous and starts a fight. He is jealous this guy is dating a girl he has the hots for but is too big of a pansy to ask out. Then he decides to leave and he heads to New York, signs in to a seedy motel and gets in trouble with a pimp and then he has to pick up the tab for some ugly out of town chicks. Afterwards he decides to call this girl he was seeing for a date the next day but he calls her at midnight. However the girl decides to go out with him and he takes her to a movie, which he purportedly hates to the max but goes about once a week anyway, and then gets mad when she makes friends with a guy. He is a ball of contradictions always saying he hates “phonies” that he really hates “ phonies”. He is probably the biggest fucking phony of them all, he is an expert liar and lets you know this his own opinion of himself and he also hates when people say things twice. Yet he does this particular annoying trait almost the whole fucking book. He is really crazy and if you ask me has way to much money and time on his hands. What he needs is a good fucking scare, a beating or to be put into a fucking public school where he can’t waste any more money. He is always talking about his brother and his sister Phoebe. Why is this book such a big fucking deal, I think its because the kid under all his bullshit wants to be a helpful guy. He wants to be the guy who helps people in short he wants to be a hero but he is all sorts of fucked up. I honestly don’t get the appeal and maybe its one of those books I’d like better if I had read in high school. I doubt it because the whole time I read it I waited for something to happen and nothing happened. Absofuckingloutley nothing super anticlimactic and stupid I didn’t understand what people make all the fuss about. Maybe I’m not as sophisticated or appreciative enough for this kind of work, or maybe I’m right and its fucking stupid. Either way I don’t recommend.

Flowers in the attic

Flowers in the Attic by V.C Andrews

I was kind of prepared for what this book was going to be about. I wasn't prepared for what other stuff would be going down. The book is about four children who are adored by their parents. A very doting dad and a devoted mother. However their world comes crashing down when their father dies. that's when the problems begin. Their mother is a self proclaimed trophy wife who never learned to do anything, she was beautiful she never needed too. She drags her four children to the house she grew up in. The problem is that she has to hide them. The poor children are sent up into a forlorn part of the house and the attic becomes their play area.
Bitch Please!
That's all I want to say about this book in the above *Spoiler Alert*
Ok what they don't tell you is that the mother married her half-uncle, which is super incestuous and when she tells her father she expects him to be ok with this. after he isn't, I mean how would you feel if your brother married your daughter? Ok here's my thing, I have an amazingly wonderful mother who babies me and is quite the charmer. My mom was born to be a mom. She tries to adopt all of my friends, Salinger has already been adopted. Whats my point? My point is that having this kind of mom I could not even for one second understand why the mother of these four children could have sacrificed herself them that way! Astounding her lust for money, its like she was her mothers clone. The Grandmother is set out to be the witch but honestly I think for sure it was the mother. Super Spoiler alert, the mom tries to kill her children and succeeds in killing one. What kind of mother does that! Honestly who fucking does that! I cried when that little one died. It wasn't fair and the mom acted like she did nothing. I hope in the next book her new husband dies and leaves her penniless and her money reverts to her children and then to have her be on the street poor where everyone who knew her and whom she belittled saw her and she would have to rely on the mercy of the children. fuck I just hate her. The book was good even if the main characters were dirty but I guess it wasn't as bad.. ok yes it was.. but still what can they expect?

The Conjuring

The Conjuring was a movie that I had wanted to see when it came out, but never really ha the time for. Yesterday Salinger suggested we go watch it and I was glad we did. We finally saw a good scary movie in a theatre. The premise of this movie a “true story” is about renowned demonologists, Lorainne and Ed Warren who have encountered a family with some nasty ass spirits. The family in question is a big family of seven the mother and father  and five girls. They move into this spacious house in Rhode Island and settle in until they figure that there are some malevolent things hiding their. The family asks the help of these demonologists and so the Warrens go ahead and check the house and find that there is definitely something wrong. Now I won’t spill the beans but I will say that whether or not this movie was based on truth or not it made for good entertainment. I was pleased with being sufficiently rattled and scared. Unlike some other exorcist movies this one was actually pretty good. One thing I have to say is I love it when in the theatre you hear people echoing your own thoughts “Don’t go down there, don’t do it, oh shit she went!”. It was kind of funny and after deciding not to pay for scary movies in theatres I have decided to maybe renew this belief. However I will not be watching Insidious 2. More on that later when I do my Fall Previews.

Mirror, Mirror

Mirror Mirror by Gergory Maguire:

 

 

Mirror, Mirror is a retelling of the Snow White fairytale and the author had set in the early 1500’s and the wicked witch is none other than Lucrezia Borgia. Needless to say it should have been pretty fricking awesome. Alas it wasn’t, it was kind of boring and hard to follow. The dwarves are the hardest thing for me to understand, first their a part of nature, then they begin to morph into humans and, well it gets tiresome to really comprehend where he wants to go with this. As per the story Bianca aka Snow White has no mother and she is the apple of her father’s eye. However he is under the control of the Borgia’s, I mean in those days who wasn’t, and he leaves Bianca in her care, yes crazy selfish Lucrezia Borgia. He is on a quest to find the branch of the tree of life, which if you ask me is dispersed too quickly.

Bitch Please!

This book was so far from what Wicked was that I just can’t comprehend how he got this published in the first place. It is extremely hard to follow whenever the dwarves come and when he writes in seven different voices it with no apparent difference. I was bored throughout the whole story, Bianca is asleep the bulk of the novel and the only interesting part is when Cesare tries to take Bianca and Lucrezia rescues her and then in turn tries to kill her. I don’t know if it was because I read it just after “The Swan Thieves” a work that tells its story through many voices and still manages to be coherent or that the language and logic in “Mirror, Mirror” is lacking in depth. Maybe its that he tried to tie many things together and they just didn’t work. Whatever the case it was pretty lame and I got through mostly because I had already started it and because once I start a book I pretty much have to finish it. I don’t recommend this.