![]() He adhered to his parent's strict vegan diet and was an animal rights activist. He didn't watch television or have the experiences most of us have growing up. He never did really attend a regular school. River was eight years old and still had never attended school. His parents were in a hippie religious cult and their kids were totally cut off from society as most people knew it. His unconventional upbringing, his real passion for music, and then fame and fortune, and death at the age of 23.River was actually his given name. He came from a bad family, and everybody knew he'd turn out bad- including Chris."That was Richard Dreyfuss, narrating as the adult Gordie Lachance, described the character in Stand by Me that made River Phoenix a star.Last Night at the Viper Room is the story of River Phoenix. ![]() ![]() I received a copy of this book from the publisher and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.IF THE SKY THAT WE LOOK UPON SHOULD TUMBLE AND FALL"Chris Chambers was the leader of our gang, and my best friend. Last Night in the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind by Gavin Edwards is a Harper Collins Publication and was released in October 2013. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One of the main characters-sort of the narrator that’s a structural oddity I’ll get to shortly-spends his formative years in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle) and is the product of a broken marriage who went on to enlist in the Army in the Vietnam era, all of which is true of Wolff. ![]() I’m not sure if he experienced incidents very close to what is depicted in The Barracks Thief, but certainly in broad terms there is overlap with his life. Wolff takes many of his stories from real life. Which makes sense, since Wolff is primarily a short story writer. So it’s pretty short even for a novella, more like a moderately long short story. The Barracks Thief is a novella of about a hundred pages with normal size font and spacing I suspect it would be more like 75. ![]() ![]() Some conjectures upon the great events, likely to befall, the world in general, and New-England in particular as also upon the advances of the time, when we shall see better dayes. Some counsils, directing a due improvement of the terrible things, lately done, by the unusual & amazing range of evil spirits, in our neighbourhood: & the methods to prevent the wrongs which those evil angels may intend against all sorts of people among us especially in accusations of the innocent. ![]() Some accounts of the grievous molestations, by daemons and witchcrafts, which have lately annoy'd the countrey and the trials of some eminent malefactors executed upon occasion thereof: with several remarkable curiosities therein occurring. ![]() : Observations as well historical as theological, upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have made this my God box (I just mistyped God as Dog – that works, too). I like this idea.įor my birthday last week, a dear friend gave me a lovely wooden box with the tree of life and birds carved into the top. It could be anything, a glove box, a crayon box. ![]() Lamott says she has a “God box” that she puts her prayers into, then closes the lid and lets whatever universal power is out there take care of it. I can’t see where I’m going, I’m getting more lost, more afraid, more clenched. These prayers say, ‘Dear Some Something, I don’t know what I’m doing. “Most good, honest prayers remind me that I am not in charge,” she writes, “that I cannot fix anything, and that I open myself to being helped by something, some force, some friends, some something. But, she says, just uttering the simple entreaty, “help,” can shift things within us, can allow us to give over the suffering to something bigger than we are, and that can make all the difference in our ability to handle whatever we face. We all go through difficulties, and most of us will not be spared life’s harshest experiences. ![]() She had me close to tears with the first section on “Help,” because what she describes is so perfectly the human condition. ![]() |