Read Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined By Saxophone, And 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists (2009)
Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined By Saxophone, And 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
This book probably would have been slightly better had I not read it cover to cover AND as an e-book. It's the kind of book you leisurely pick up and read a list while "doing your business". It's entertaining in spots, but at times seems redundant even though it's a completely new list. Because it's by the editors of The Onion's A.V. Club, it tends to lean towards some obscure things at times, most especially when they talk music. Most disappointing are the contributions by celebrities. Complete waste. Only Patton Oswalt seem to give it some thought and wrote one of the best lists overall. Zach Galifianakis's list of his favorite fax numbers, while very brief, also got a big laugh. Weird Al Yankovic's list MIGHT have gotten a laugh had he kept it very brief like Zach's.At the end of the book, the authors share some of their rejected ideas for lists and I must say some are better than some of the ones that made the book, but I am glad they didn't try to cram them all in here as the book seemed plenty long. Lots of fun ... I guess I didn't completely read it, since I couldn't bring myself to finish the list of Great Movies Too Painful to Watch Twice (too painful for me to read once)... but read the other lists, all of them interesting. The book was great and exposed me to a wide range of information about pop culture. I realized (as I already knew) that I have very little depth of knowledge about music... A great book to flip through and enjoy.
What do You think about Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined By Saxophone, And 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists (2009)?
I'm a sucker for lists and obscure pop culture stuff, so this book was right up my alley...
—onesha14
The ultimate bathroom book for my brand of nerd.
—T_ran
nothing great, but perfect for the bathroom.
—shhreysehgal
