Bruno Marchese Marchese itibaren అఖుసింగి, ఒడిస్సా 765025, India itibaren అఖుసింగి, ఒడిస్సా 765025, India

Nothing new inside, but well developed and worth the short time it takes to finish.

One of my all-time favorite books. It is entertaining, enlightening, startling and evocative for me as a reader, as well as providing many excellent examples of the mastery of the craft of fiction-writing for me as a writer. I could (and have) read this book over and over again.

Well, what can I say. You either love this book or you hate it. The story itself was interesting. Gave a different spin on the life of a vampire. The writing, well....I had to keep telling myself that this book was written for the younger generation although I think at times their intelligence may be been insulted. I trudged along without any opinion until I got to the end. That was when the book caught my attention. Do I want to go through this again with the second book? I don't think so.

On the plus side there are some good quotes here from all sorts of different writers: Mark Twain, Tolstoy, Erasmus, Jerry Seinfeld. But I found Rubin’s observations banal. I couldn’t see what was interesting about a rich, happy, and happily married writer devoting a year of her life to making herself even more cheerful. And, call me cynical, was this really a genuine Happiness Project - or a Let's-Spend-A-Year-Gathering-Material-For-A-New-Book-About-Happiness Project?