Same crapola, different book.

The basic point of this post boils down to this: The Tenth Circle is just as bad as The Ice Storm. Goddam but I hated that book. I read The Ice Storm by one Rick Moody who I have no idea why people found him so cool and hipster because his book was pedestrian as well as pedophilic, and now I am listening to The Tenth Circle on CD while I drive to and from work. I can;t tell if I hate The Tenth Circle in the same way because the comparison is off since I am listening to it and the readers voice annoys me. But also I am pretty sure that I dislike the whole book. Just like in The Ice Storm there is somethings wildly disfunctional in the relationship between the adults, and something downright creepy in the realationships between the adults and the children, not to mention between the authors and children. Anyway, that shit is wack but I'm going to finish it out. I'll let you know if it gets better.

I do kind of want to see the movie of The Ice Storm, though. But I bet if it is good then Rick Moody never got his paws on it! Let me give you a little recap of The Ice Storm via Wikipedia: "The story focuses on a brief period of time when a major ice storm hits their town of New Canaan, Connecticut, just as both families are melting down from the parents' alcoholism, escapism and adultery, and their children's drug use and sexual experimentation." Stupid escapism and children's drug use, always happening at the same time. And of course the families are affluent. Anyway, I just want everyone to know that I am a fan of dysfunction in stories,
and I have read "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" four times, but The Ice Storm is some fakery.