sammertime

This has been on the shelf for a while. I’ve had a couple different people tell me they found this to be his creepiest/scariest/most disquieting work.I assume this means it’s also one of his better books. We’ll see if it affects me as much as it has some others!

Finished it tonight, with mixed feelings. It was odd because I had heard from a couple of folks it was pretty bad, so I went in with low expectations. I would agree that the writing wasn’t very good compared to some of his other stuff. Having said that, two things saved this book for me, and made it if not great, quite readable. 1. I found the characters easier to connect with and root for than in the others I’ve read recently. 2. More importantly, I found the simple premise of this book enthralling, and as someone who no longer even pays for a landline, a bit disconcerting. ;) It is, without doubt, the most realistic and plausible, book of his I’ve read so far. The fact that the seed of this story stems from an increasingly prevasive element of our society was fascinating to me.

I don’t usually weigh in on a daily basis, but last night I was within one pound of my goal, so on a whim I weighed in today after excercising and I’d lost another 1/2 pound. In other words, I started at 184 and came in today at 164. Originally, I was going to wait a week to mark this done to make sure hitting the 20 pound mark wasn’t a fluke. But, I’ve decided that I hit the mark, and it doesn’t really matter to me if I gain a couple tenths tomorrow. It’s more important to check back in here occasionally to help maintain things. When I added this goal I dreaded losing “major” weight b/c I had already done it once in my life I wasn’t sure I had it in me to do it again. For that reason, in some ways I’m even more proud of myself for persevering and getting back to this point. I was so disappointed when I started that I couldn’t have accomplished it without this website as motivation and encouragment. So,thank you to all for helping me complete this “thing” and to lose 20 pounds! Again, wow…