Off Magazine Street
first off let me apologize for staking dracula :) didn't mean to get any of you PO'd. i was just giving my opinion.
to the next terrible book shall we?
first off let me say that i should NOT read books after watching the movie. i hate doing it and i keep finding myself doing it anyway. there is a movie based off this book called "a love song for bobby long" which is one of my favorites and after watching it i ordered the book. would definitely recommend the movie. but this isn't a community reviewing movies. it's reviewing books. so here goes:
the book follows a teenager named hanna, and two old perverted alcoholics bobby, and byron. and let me say they were definitely perverts in the book. hanna's mother passes away and hanna goes and stays with the old guys. it seemed like every other paragraph bobby and byron were trying to get in her pants, either by unbuttoning them while she was passed out or coming out and asking her to do them. the book was too child molesty for my taste. i'm glad the movie isn't like that. it's more sentimental and yes in the movie bobby is still a perv, but i guess john travolta made sure he didn't OVER do the pervy-ness. whoever wrote the movie must've very loosely based it on the book so if you're like me and love the movie don't expect to be captivated by Ronald Everett Capps.
Synopsis (according to BarnesandNoble.com)
Fallen from grace and shunned by respectable society, Bobby Long is joyously content drowning his past in cheap hooch and bedding any woman with low standards and high tolerance. His partner, an unproductive writer named Byron Burns, is happy to join him for the long ride down.
Their distant salvation is an unwritten manuscript sure to redeem their standing and pride-though both know it's just a thin reason to get up and go to the bar. When their latest female companion dies in their fleabag hotel room, the duo find themselves putting up her young but futureless daughter, Hanna.
Despite their own dishonorable intentions and aging desires, the pair cannot abide her lack of ambition and low expectations for herself. Together, they dust off their teachers' instincts and conspire to use every means necessary-legal, illegal, fair, and unfair-to get Hanna into college. Fueled by the purest motives they can muster, the men battle the seduction of vice to give Hanna a chance, and discover for themselves that true character doesn't drown easily.
not a book i'd recommend. not one i'd ever read again. huge disappointment.
to the next terrible book shall we?
first off let me say that i should NOT read books after watching the movie. i hate doing it and i keep finding myself doing it anyway. there is a movie based off this book called "a love song for bobby long" which is one of my favorites and after watching it i ordered the book. would definitely recommend the movie. but this isn't a community reviewing movies. it's reviewing books. so here goes:
the book follows a teenager named hanna, and two old perverted alcoholics bobby, and byron. and let me say they were definitely perverts in the book. hanna's mother passes away and hanna goes and stays with the old guys. it seemed like every other paragraph bobby and byron were trying to get in her pants, either by unbuttoning them while she was passed out or coming out and asking her to do them. the book was too child molesty for my taste. i'm glad the movie isn't like that. it's more sentimental and yes in the movie bobby is still a perv, but i guess john travolta made sure he didn't OVER do the pervy-ness. whoever wrote the movie must've very loosely based it on the book so if you're like me and love the movie don't expect to be captivated by Ronald Everett Capps.
Synopsis (according to BarnesandNoble.com)
Fallen from grace and shunned by respectable society, Bobby Long is joyously content drowning his past in cheap hooch and bedding any woman with low standards and high tolerance. His partner, an unproductive writer named Byron Burns, is happy to join him for the long ride down.
Their distant salvation is an unwritten manuscript sure to redeem their standing and pride-though both know it's just a thin reason to get up and go to the bar. When their latest female companion dies in their fleabag hotel room, the duo find themselves putting up her young but futureless daughter, Hanna.
Despite their own dishonorable intentions and aging desires, the pair cannot abide her lack of ambition and low expectations for herself. Together, they dust off their teachers' instincts and conspire to use every means necessary-legal, illegal, fair, and unfair-to get Hanna into college. Fueled by the purest motives they can muster, the men battle the seduction of vice to give Hanna a chance, and discover for themselves that true character doesn't drown easily.
not a book i'd recommend. not one i'd ever read again. huge disappointment.