Name: This book will change your life! ? BOOK REVIEW ? - April
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Hello everybody. I'm back. Did you think I forgot?

すみません Sumi Masen (excuse me in japanese)

I am sorry. When I was in Japan last month,

i didn't really have much chance to read I

I knew my time there was limited. So I really just wanted to focus on

Being in Japan. There's been a lot of news articles about book club.

I don't know if you read them. But so- some of them are great.

Obviously getting more people into reading a British bookstore a very very big British bookstore

they had a select table of books and there were all books that I had reviewed and

definitely had an influence on sales if they

but it's cool. Should I force anything else positive into this before

I begin? I don't think we need to do that. Thank you.

Now, first book I read was the "Dice Man."

Written by Luke Rhinehart this was suggestion by Brad

Hooray for Brad Thank You Brad for suggesting

A lot of you guys suggested this book as well and I can definitely see why. I think Brad told me that he read it

Think it's the kind of book I would probably appreciate

If I was younger as well not saying that it's stupid or anything like that

It's just it has a lot of flaws that I thought was a bit hard to

Over- oversee is that how they say it (overlook) doesn't matter. The book is written by Luke Rhinehart who is also

Conveniently the protagonist. Mmm how strange. It follows a story of Luke who is a

Psychiatrist he's very successful. He earns a lot of money. He has his wife

He has his kids, but he just doesn't feel happy where he is in life

His best friend is advancing before him even though he's not as clever as he is

He just feels stuck in a rut basically so in a drunken idea

Late at night. He decides that he's going to roll a dice and if it lands on a six

he is going to rape his best friend's wife who has been sort of flirting with him a little bit and

Here it sort of shows how amateurish the writer is or maybe just needs a better editor. I don't know

There's really no reason for him to want to rape his

Best friend's wife. I understand that he needs to undergo this drastic change of character, but they justify it as "Oh well

"she- she liked it more than I did" *weird noise*

I feel weird i've been talking about it and it's not like I'm prude or anything like that

But nevertheless this event has such a drastic change of his character that he becomes the dice man

And he decides to live his life by the roll of the dice

he will write down a couple things that he wants to do and a couple of things that he doesn't want to do and he

So if it rolls a 1 or a 2, he'll do this two to three or four he'll do this

five or six he'll do this, so that determines his life and it's interesting in a way how that makes him break free from his

Rut essentially his character that's just too comfortable. A lot of times

it's obvious what you want to do and you always go for the obvious choice and

You there's so many things that you miss out on by not doing and

that never gets to live because you always go with the obvious choice and by

Constantly going with the obvious choice you may end up too comfortable and in the way that Luke was in the beginning of the novel

Luke really decides that he's going to push this for

Scientific purposes or for his studies. He's going to push the limit of the dice and

Following the dice as a godly figure to its very limits. It's not like the whole idea of flipping a coin is anything new

Special about it, but it becomes a cult and he becomes a cult leader of that of the dice. It's an interesting concept of

self-control also letting go of that control to something else and while reading it I was feeling

Like I want to try this out when I was in Japan, for example

Me and Marzia a lot of times the things that we enjoyed the most were not the we had planned for

but things that we just happened to stumble upon which I think is why what it's trying to get at. The book very

Confidently says on the cover. This book will change your life

It won't. I really enjoyed it at the first half but the second half was just

Unnecessary, I think it tried too hard to be commercialized

The story takes almost like a movie like plot

The FBI is after him and there's just so many sex scenes in this book

I think there's like 30 sex scenes in it and it just became cringe-worthy after a while

I'm like, this is just ridiculous. At the end of it

the skill of the author and if the concept of the dice was even that great to begin with. It just seems so like some sort

who knows? maybe that's what it was trying to mock anyway. Next! I read "Stoner" by John Williams.

This was a book that when he came out it barely sold anything, but then later- fifty years later

It got translated and it picked up in popularity. Now,

When I explain my favorite novel to people, or at least a novel that I really enjoyed, a lot of times I met with

"That doesn't sound interesting at all!" What are you talking about? A good testimony of a good writer is that if you can tell a

seemingly uninteresting story and captivate your your reader

And I think Stoner is exactly that. Now I was reading this and I kept thinking

"When is the punchline coming?" "When is the weed joke coming?"

420 and I realized, "I've just spent hours reading a boring book about a boring man's life!"

It has nothing to do with weed. Not a single weed reference. I'm just kidding. Obviously. It's actually a really great book

It follows a story a William Stoner, which can be summarized as "Life sucks, and then you die."

"So fuck the world and let's get high! 420 everybody!" It's so cringe-worthy jokes. I'm sorry.

William Stoner grows up on a farm. He goes to study agriculture and

he- it's obligatory to study English literature and he completely falls in love with it and he loves- and he switch

his studies completely to literature instead of agriculture and

At the day of his graduation, he very selfishly

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