With that author, I'm not surprised it's good. Joel got The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay some years back (before I met him?) which is just plain good fun, besides having a lot of Jewish-mystic-history that I'm not otherwise familiar with.
Then a few months ago I caught a late-night movie, Wonder Boys, which looked like it'd be B-grade, but turned out to be so interesting and funny and amusing that Joel got suckered in to sitting down and finishing the rest with me. Turns out it was based on a book by Chabon, which I picked up a few weeks ago. The movie was quite true to the book (not totally, but where it diverged it stayed true in spirit), and the book was great.
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Date: 2009-01-13 08:05 am (UTC)Then a few months ago I caught a late-night movie, Wonder Boys, which looked like it'd be B-grade, but turned out to be so interesting and funny and amusing that Joel got suckered in to sitting down and finishing the rest with me. Turns out it was based on a book by Chabon, which I picked up a few weeks ago. The movie was quite true to the book (not totally, but where it diverged it stayed true in spirit), and the book was great.
Now I'll have to try to get Gentlemen.