Shopgirl
The library was taking a while to get me my copy of "A Scanner Darkly," so I decided to read this quick novella by Steve Martin to pass the time. It was also made into a movie last year starring Steve Martin and Claire Danes, so naturally I couldn't help but picture them as the two main characters. And unlike some other books that were made into movies, that wasn't a bad thing in this case.
Shopgirl is a very interesting character study type of book. Since there are really only two, maybe three, characters, Martin is able, in just over 100 pages, to fully flesh out each one of them and their motivations. It's very different from the books I've been reading, and for that reason, I liked it a lot, even though one might characterize it as a "chick book."
The library came through and got my copy of "A Scanner Darkly" in, so I've now started on that.
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I haven't read it, but I saw the movie. Good actinng, but I would have liked to see more of that character development that you speak of that is so prevalent in the book. The performances are really good by all three of the main characters, but I wouldn't say it was my favorite of last year.
I'm reading a really good book called "Creepers" by David Morrell right now.