Longmont Library Finds

While perusing the shelves for the very first time at the Longmont Public Library a couple weeks ago, I came across an interesting title...which is pretty much how books choose me...Kings and Queens of Roam.  Upon reading about the author, Daniel Wallace, I learned that he wrote Big Fish, which is one of my favorite movies.  So, of course, I wanted to read this book. 

 

I won't give anything away, but will say it is a story about an American who kidnaps a Chinese man and they start a town in the U.S.  The fate of the town, Roam, is experienced for generations, to include two sisters.

 

The story is similar to Big Fish in that it has bits of the fantastical.  BUT, the ending really left me disappointed.

 

I have since read two other Daniel Wallace books, The Watermelon King and Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.  Both good reads, and quick, but they suffer the same fate ~~ the endings leave me confused, disappointed, at a loss.

 

I haven't yet read Big Fish and know that I have to, to see if Tim Burton, the movie's director, took any creative liberties.  Or, perhaps Big Fish was better written as a whole. 

 

I wouldn't discourage anyone from reading any of Mr. Wallace's books.  Nothing is ever wasted having read a book you discover you don't like all that much.  I would love any feedback from anyone who has read these books or who does after reading my post. 

 

And, while in Boulder yesterday, we stopped in the Boulder Public Library and got ourselves cards for this newly remodeled, gorgeous "museum" of the written word (which also houses DVDs and CDs).  I simply cannot wait until we are residents of Boulder!!!