I’m having a Ben Mezrich week.
After rewatching 21 (Kate Bosworth, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey) this weekend, I dove into Mezrich’s (Author of Bringing Down the House / MIT Blackjack story) newest ‘non fiction tell-all’ book titled The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.
Though he caught a lot of flack for the previous book for possibly sensationalizing events that may or may not have happened, readers will undoubtedly eat it all up. Why?
Because we’re all looking to beat the system. Even if it’s fighting vivaciously through someone else. What’s not to love? Young brilliant kids becoming billionaires. Going down the path that their parents probably deemed impossible but making it happen. It’s a modern day male fairy tale.
Stuff summed the book up as “a story about Zuckerberg and his co-founders creating Facebook as a way to pick up women, party and to get into a private Harvard club. Zuckerberg is portrayed as a back-stabbing genius with a fetish for Asian women.” (lols)
Kevin Spacey has already signed on to co-produce the movie, preemptively titled The Social Network, later this year. (via)
Before you write this off as another teenage movie, Zuckerman also (allegedly) bangs groupies in the bathroom and eats koala. KOALA.
Yes. I would pay to see this.
I will add on more as nitpicky and neuro as I am but this has just been bothering me.
How will they kick off movie #7 when they omitted two crucial characters and a significant fight?!
In the ending of book #6 (Half Blood Prince), there is a battle between the death eaters and Dumbledore’s Army. Malfoy had allowed the Death Eaters including Bella and Fenrir the werewolf who has an affinity for small children into the castle (to which Dumbledore says I’m surprised that you would let these monsters into a place where your friends reside which was omitted in the movie. This part was crucial because it showed that Malfoy was working against his will and he does not have to balls to choose either side but he never meant to hurt his friends.)
Anyway, during the battle Bill Weasley is mangled by Fenrir and Fleur Delacur (from the Goblet of Fire) is still insistent that they get married because she loves him for who he is and she’s “pretty enough for the both of them.” In book 7, Harry goes to the Weasley’s and there is a good chunk of the book where they plan their mission all while Mrs. Weasley is trying to distract them and keep them apart. Not to mention, it is at the wedding when they receive news that the Ministry has falle and this marks the beginning of the hiding for all muggles and muggle supporters.
AH! AND Tonks finds Harry in HP6 on the train not Luna! And HARRY hides the Potions book in the Room of Requirement not Ginny! This is KEY. Harry has to hide it because he hides it next to the Hufflepuff Tiara which he has to find in the next book. How is he going to FIND it if he doesn’t have recollection of it?!?
All the characters are developing nicely though. Emma is really pretty.
/rant. Still love the movie tho. I can’t help that I’m a loser.
Read Top 5 Discrepencies from the Examiner - here.
After getting a nice hardcover Chanel book [Collections and Creations] for x’mas, I found that not only does it make for great fashion inspiration during lazy mornings but it is adorably cute as decor. So I figure I buy another one to put in the living room possibly the Jacques Helleu + Chanel edition.
So after doing a quick amazon search, I was like wtf. This book raised in value over a course of 5 months. Like exceedingly much. The average price for this piece from both amazon and barnes & noble was 134 dollars.
Oh snaps. I should stop using it as a freaking TRAY when I eat in my room.
I read. A lot. No, I’m not saying that in a ‘cool’ way where girls proclaim they like to read and say ‘oh i’m such a nerd.’ In no way is my reading habit endearing or do I think of myself as a nerd (way too cute). Self proclaimed titles are not whoa.
I read out of habit. Out of the sheer fact that I constantly need to be reading something. I got banned from the library because I would always return books crinkled and damp. Yes, I read books in the shower. Not like in the bathroom on the counter but holding a book with one hand while showering. Not pimpin’ I know. In fact, it’s something I’ve done as a child and it’s hard for me to break away from it. I know this is odd to some people and not charming during one night stands so I resort to reading the back of shampoo and soap bottles.
The thing my mom hates is that when I drive alone I read. WHILE DRIVING. Not just flipping through a magazine but reading novels going 65/mph on the fwy. I know. I’m sorry in advance.
I can’t buy books from the bookstore because I read them all the same day and force my friends or my mom to go return them. What?! Books are expensive :-/
I don’t even have to read new material. I read the same books over and over again. Why? Same reason I can watch movies and shows I’ve seen repeatedly. I like to know how things end.
Or if you want to be succinct, my friend calls it neurotic.
And I’m happy to announce that I found my new crack house. I recently found a One Dollar Bookstore next to Albertson’s (chicken), CVS (booze), and Yogiyo (froyo!) on Venice in Culver City.
They have a big selection and I can get 20 bucks for the price of two if I was at Border’s. Ba dow.
Please avoid the Asian girl in the swerving black Explorer.
8985 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, 90034
(310) 280-386
The concept of Blink is in most instances, you can forgo what you learned in school.. “don’t judge a book by its cover. Look before you leap.” Sometimes all you ever need to know is in the first two seconds.
I liken this to job interviewing initially. You get a certain vibe when you walk into an interview for the first time or even on the phone while getting your appt. You already know. Call it your own personal spidey sense. It’s intuition. But you rationalize those doubts or feelings in your mind because you are taught not to make rush judgement. But it’s true. You know as you are interviewing if you want to even work for these people or just walk out but you suppress it because of so many other factors – i.e. You need a job, they may be nice to work for, it’s close to home, etc. But even if you take the job, the feelings that you initially had usually are true and you’ll end up hating your job or quitting.
It happens in relationships. You meet someone and you kinda hit it off but not really. There’s some things about them that you don’t really care for or you just think is weird. But since you like them, you rationalize it. You accept it not knowing that it’ll just become a repeating occurrence for the future relationship.
It gives an example of a girl named Alice. Prior to the blind date, Alice claims the top two qualities she looks for are men who are smart and charming. After meeting Brad [who is confident and worldly] she found extremely attractive and compatible, you can ask her again and she will change her answers to mirror the guy she just fell in infatuation with. It’s not that Alice was lying. Its just that we all like so many things that we can change OUR perceptions to fit any scenario.
The idea behind the book is not to go crazy and just do everything that comes to your head but to REALIZE that you may be right 99.9% of the time and know to trust yourself.
Of course this comes with a down side because of our personal prejudices. Cops often make fatal mistakes relying on their instincts. But in that split second, do you really have a choice?
According to some chick on amazon [god. i should have know. she likes Sex and the City], Sammy’s Hill is the greatest thing since slice bread:
“As a devotee of Helen Fielding and Candace Bushnell, my bar is exceptionally high for fiction where the heroine’s exploits include men, alcohol, and email drama. However, Ms Gore’s DC answer to Bridget Jones rises to the occasion and made me laugh out loud many times throughout the two days where I could not put this book down. This insider’s view of politics humanizes an otherwise dry area of subject matter and made me want to learn more about what happens as the behind the scenes staffers work long hard days for their political seniors. One need not even agree with Ms Gore’s brand of health care policy to enjoy a delightful, well researched and humorous read. My favorite addition was the use of Blackberry as a verb - well done throughout the book.”
WTF. Couldn’t put it down in two days? Jesus. This is the pinnacle of light reading. Should take you a couple hours tops. Let me give you a more accurate review.
This is SATC with a dash of cliches in politics. Yes there are ‘sex’ scandals. and ‘back stabbing’ but that’s the extent in which Ms. Gore dives into politics. Maybe she wanted this book to be ‘racy’, who knows. My main problem with this novel is that the ‘heroine’ [i do say that loosely] is completely one-note. We don’t get any real description of her so we assume she’s pretty [?] She’s supposedly the idealistic young genius that has high hopes for politics but we don’t relate to her at all. Why? Probably because the other 94% of the book is about her stupid love life with another Senator’s speechwriter.
He apparently is the love of her life that turns out to be a cheater. How surprising. Anyway, the book documents her relationship through ups and downs - his lack of attention, her stalkerish ways, you know what? No one cares. I don’t care enough about her to care about her love life.
If this is meant to be a political satire, then it fails.
If this is meant to be chick lit on the lines of ‘Confessions of a Shop-a-holic”, then it fails even worse.
It’s like asian fusion. Pick a genre and stick with it already. Jeez.
