Preview: Books I am looking forward to

Dancing With Myself by Billy Idol

October 7th 2014

"In this bold and candid memoir, music legend Billy Idol shares his life story—from his childhood in England to his rise to fame during the height of the punk-pop revolution—revealing intimate details about the sex, drugs, and rock and roll that he is so fabulously famous for—all told in his own utterly indelible voice."

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Dancing With Myself is already available but I haven't gotten my hands on it... yet. It is the autobiography I was eagerly waiting for, since Billy Idol was my favorite singer when I was really young. He had a pretty interesting life but now we will be able to read more about it from the man himself. I bet this will be a page-turner, at least for me. 

 

Beautiful You: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

October 21st 2014

"Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well," a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?"

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I love Chuck Palahniuk's books. Plain and simple. He is weird, writes about insane things, and he is not afraid to tackle some touchy subjects. He has a different voice and I simply adore his way of writing. With that said, I am very excited to read Beautiful You. I though his two latest books (Damned and Doomed) were a bit... meh, but I have a good feeling about this one!

Revival by Stephen King

November 11th 2014

"In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs Jacobs; the women and girls - including Jamie's mother and beloved sister - feel the same about Reverend Jacobs. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity.

Then tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, the preacher curses God, mocking all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.

Jamie has demons of his own. In his mid-thirties, he is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings. Because for every cure there is a price . . ."

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It is a Stephen King's book. That fact alone is enough to keep me on toes. Mister King will always be my number one author, and frankly, he can't do wrong in my eyes. I am glad he publishes at least a book (or two) a year. Come on November! I need to read Revival!