But Inside I'm Screaming

This book had the typical mental institution setting. And told the story of a woman trying to get her life back together and to get out of Three Breezes. Mental Institutions always have names like that. I enjoyed this book. It wasn't all that interesting but it was a good story. That's basically all it was was telling the story of an overstressed woman who couldn't deal with her life anymore. She tried to kill herself and failed. It seemed like she failed at everything though her eyed. She kept getting into controlling and abusive relationships who also influenced her opinion of herself. This book described how she came to love herself and accept that she wasn't perfect.

Review/Description
But inside I'm screaming is one woman's unforgettable story about what it is to lose control as the world watches, to figure out what went so very wrong and to accept an imperfect life in a world that demands perfection.

While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the "nut hut," where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had.

But accepting her place among her fellow patients proves difficult. Isabel struggles to reconcile the fact that she is, indeed, one of them, and faces the reality that in order to mend her painfully fractured life she must rely solely on herself.

The Shining by Stephen King

I finally finished it!!! There are about 683 pages including the epilogue. The Shining was phenominal. I highly recommend it. The book is almost NOTHING like the movie. The ending was COMPLETELY different and the events throughout the story were way different too. Oh, and the dog-mask-thingy does have a little importance in the book. Basically, it's about the Torrance family-Jack, Wendy, and Danny. Danny has a special gift (shining) which allows him to see things that have or will happen. Jack has a drinking problem and loses his job... He snags a job at the Overlook hotel as the caretaker and lives in the hotel with his family. As the days pass, the hotel tightens its grip on Jack... I can't give away too much cuz I want you guys to read it! Stephen King has a REALLY good writing style; he actually puts the characters' thoughts in between some of the lines. DO NOT BELIEVE THE MOVIE AT ALL!!! IT LIES!!! IT DIDN'T RUIN THE BOOK AT ALL!


The Greatest Haunted Hotel Story Ever Written!!, June 17, 2004
By
Robert J. Schneider (Tacoma, WA USA) - See all my reviews Throughout the last century, there were many authors who wrote haunted house stories. In 1977, Stephen King beat 'em all with a haunted hotel story. You see, this is not just *any* haunted hotel story; this is THE SHINING.
THE SHINING is about several things, all tied up into one complex and multilayered whole. It is about a five-year-old boy who is impossibly mature and wise beyond his years, and who has a terrifying gift that seems as much a curse. It is about his father, a recovering alcoholic with demons in his soul and skeletons in his closet, who is battling both in order to keep his family financially afloat. It is about his wife, a doting mother who has braved the ups & downs of her husband's turbulence, who loves him, and who wants to trust him beyond his past mistakes but is just on this side of being unable to do so. It is about a classic, Art Deco hotel tucked deep within the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, whose name is respected but nevertheless has a mysteriously chequered past. It is about the ghosts that occupy this hotel, that wish to possess the above family but can only be seen by the boy and the head cook. It is about the head cook, an older black man who shares the same gift with the boy, and who develops a special friendship with him as a result. It is about a family who begin at their last chance for hope & unity, who end up fighting for their last chance at survival. This is THE SHINING.
THE SHINING is a true gestalt entity: it is more than the sum of its parts. Stephen King masterly intertwines all of the above elements, plus some truly frightening imagery, to create a novel of several hundred compulsively-turning pages that add up to one of the greatest experiences that I've ever had as a reader of fiction.
MOST RECOMMENDED; AGES 15 & UP

Cirque Du Freak book 1 (A Living Nightmare)

Okay, so I've seen these "Cirque du Freak" books everywhere... So I decided to pick up the first book and try it out... It's about a boy named Darren Shan (also the name of the author...) who loves spiders. His friend scores tickets to a freak show where he sees all kinds of stuff. He decides to steal a spider from this one performer (later, we find out he's a vampire...muhaha) and one of his friends gets bitten. Darrent has to find the vampire to get the cure for his friend... What he pays in return? I can't say. It was a decent book...if you're bored. It's mainly aimed for 10 year old ish boys... so yeah, it's a read if you wanna thing... I'm not gonna get the review off Amazon cuz this book doesn't deserve it... but I may read the second just cuz I'mma geek :P


PS: I saw 27 Dresses... I liked it!

Looking for Alaska

This was actually a really good book. I started reading it and was like this isn't going to be very good, but in the middle it got interesting and it ended good. It was about this boy who meets this girl called Alaska and she changes his life. It talks about his life while he new her before she died and then what it was like after she died. About page 100 I figured out Alaska was going to die. It actually proved a good point about life after death. That we never are really born or die because energy can never be destroyed.

Review/Description

Before.Miles "pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole xsistence has been one nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" even more. He heads off to sometimes crazy, poossibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alska Young. The gorgeous, clever, sexy, self-destructive,screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same.

Phantom of the Opera

Sorry I haven't checked back in a while...I'm a bad person :(...jk . Well, this is off-topic, but I finally watched Phantom of the Opera (POO...I could've called it PO or PTO...but POO sounds so much funnier). I thought POO was brilliant! I, of course, cried cuz I cry at anything sad-ish. I had to watch it twice to understand it... I felt so sorry for the Phantom at the end... I wanted to give him a hug or something... I thought Christine looked like she was 14...so it was kinda creepy watching her make out with 30 year old looking dudes. but anyways, the setting was so pretty... I would love to see an opera house like that... Christine is getting singing lessons from a mysterious tutor...who later reveals himself to her as the POO. Well, the Phantom later falls in love with her...but Christine is in love with a childhood sweetheart that later comes back into her life...his name is Raoul... The Phantom is basically driven mad due to his childhood and from seeing Christine being in love with Raoul... I can't give away too much, but it's definately a Must-Watch.


Thank you for allowing me to waste a moment of two of your life... Now go read something productive :P

Sound of Silence lyrics

Hello darkness, my old friend,Ive come to talk with you again,Because a vision softly creeping,Left its seeds while I was sleeping,And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence.In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone,neath the halo of a street lamp,I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of A neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence.And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more.People talking without speaking,People hearing without listening,People writing songs that voices never share And no one deared Disturb the sound of silence.Fools said i,you do not know Silence like a cancer grows.Hear my words that I might teach you,Take my arms that I might reach you.But my words like silent raindrops fell,And echoed In the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon God they made.And the sign flashed out its warning,In the words that it was forming.And the signs said, the words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls.And whisperd in the sounds of silence.

TAD( HERE THEY ARE WOLF)