never too late / to sum up 2008

First off:

2008 in books!

It's so not a coincidence that most of the books and most of the reviews come from the first half of the year. I've read lots of novel-length fanfiction in the last six months, if that counts.

What I said over there goes double over here: if I "forgot" to review a book and you wanna know what I thought, just comment and ask! ...Although I've said that before, ahaha. (But this time I mean it!)

Secondly:

2008 in writing!

...There was none. ^^; Man, that was easy.

Thirdly:

Happy Birthday jullllier!

Dean and Me: A Love Story, by Jerry Lewis

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were a(n extremely popular) double comedy act in the era before rock 'n roll. Dean Martin sang and looked handsome while Jerry Lewis did dumb things to get his attention, was the basic premise.The act ran 10 years to the day -- from 1946 to 1956 -- though Martin and Lewis were apparently not on speaking terms during their last year together. Before breaking up, both performers made a lot of money together, spent a lot of time on the road together (often sharing hotel suites), drank a lot of booze -- separately and together, hobnobbed with a lot of Italian mobsters -- again separately and together, and appeared -- together -- in a lot of scripted movies and television specials, a few of which can now be seen on Youtube. The pair's true talents, however, lay in improvision and ad-lib (at least according to Lewis). Here's an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuqKswMLJtw

...In other words this is not as lame as it looks, I swear!

What *is* somewhat lame is my real reason for checking Dean and Me: A Love Story out of the library, which was -- seeing as the book's title and also the mere fact of its existence screams "codependency!" -- that I was curious to see whether what these guys had together in any way resembled what Pete and Carl (Libertines) had together, and if so in what ways.

( The answer is: yes and no )

In conclusion this is actually a very good book, though I felt like a complete and utter dork the whole time I was reading it.