"So your blog and (it's) dozens of readers are relying on my response and what I can recall from a book I read in 10 hours two and a half months ago?...hmmm" -Craig

This was promised ages ago and I am only now getting to it.  I apologize but promise no amends.  It is what it is.

Not really sure how to format this blog entry.  I would like to include both Craig's and my points of view. (Wow that sentence seems fraught with peril.  If I have any English majors in the house feel free to jump on that one.)  I guess I'm gonna go with the 'no rhyme or reason, just jumping in' approach.

So here are some semi-random quotes from the reviews that Craig and I wrote:

"I didn't finish to book.  I got bored as heck with it." -Julie

"Moore took a good idea and made it mundane." -Craig

"I think Moore should stick to what he's good at and write original stories and leave the re-working of great literature to people that have more aptitude for it." -Julie

"(He got)...me to laugh more than a few times...so I guess I'll let him live to write again. As for Stephanie Meyer, she's gotta go!" -Craig

"I do admire Moore's gift for inventive curse words: Fuckstockings? Nice." -Craig

"I was hoping for 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' and I got 'O' starring Josh Hartnett" -Julie

"I did see King Lear performed once. in the little theatre at CSUN...IT SUCKED OUT LOUD!...could actually hear some of the audience snoring...The worst part was finding something nice to say to the actors at the afterparty. The good news was that the drunker I got, the easier and more pleasant the lying became." -Craig

"While drinking does help the lies go down easy it cannot replace decades of blowing smoke up the asses of an endless number of actors.  You don't know lies until you have to stroke the ego of your boyfriend for several hours every night of a shows run, just so he'll let you go to sleep.  Oh that magic I spin when sleepy and dating that most delicate of creatures, the narcissistic actor." -Julie

"While the book wasn't that great it did do one thing for me.  I watched Sir. Ian do his Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Co on Netflix.  And that is something I probably would not have thought to do had I not read this book.  Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian.  ACTION.  "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is.  To have a thankless child!"  CUT.  Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian.  Pretty Great." -Julie

Neither of us really liked to book all that much.  Which is great.  At least I know we think alike.  What's best about it was not really reading the book.  It was just nice to have a set thing to talk about.  It's been a hard few weeks.  It's been hard to find common ground.  It's been hard not to feel bogged down in the day to day.  He's been worked pretty hard.  He's a very strong man with a pretty high tolerance for duty and responsibility but he starting to feel the weight of it.  I'm a pretty strong girl but there is a certain amount of isolation in this brand of place-holding.  I think we both got a certain amount of pleasure in politely disliking something together.