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Sep. 6th, 2000 04:13 pm
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The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes


My nominee for worst book of the year. This lame attempt at a high-octane crime thriller comes up far short of any sense of suspense or terror - or even mild interest.

I would describe the plot of "The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes," but there is no plot. There seems to be no coherent story at all from one page to the next; just a list of edible ingredients and a short narrative on how to prepare them.

"The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes" starts out promisingly, with a short interlude on a nice steamed chicken with asparagus tips. However, that story line is never completed, nor is it ever referred to again. Instead, on the next page is a non-sequitor jump to another food-related storyline, this one involving a light pork steak roast with wild rice and corn.

I became so frustrated with "The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes," I gave up on it just 130 pages in. There was no main character, no secondary characters, no love interest, no antagonist, no beginning, no middle, no end, no flashbacks, no climax, no humor, and no plot. Why anyone would ever buy and read "The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes" is a mystery to me.

The only possible use I can imagine for " The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes" is if someone out there actually wanted to try to prepare the food dishes described within "The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes." But as a taut crime thriller, "The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes" is a miserable failure.

install it

Date: 2000-09-06 01:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myth.livejournal.com
Tee hee. *grin*

Date: 2000-09-06 01:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] papoose.livejournal.com
uh, Scotto, "The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes" ISN'T A TAUT CRIME THRILLER! with plot, love interests, etc. ITS A COOKBOOK! "The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes" IS A COOKBOOK! That is, unless you find eggplant mysterious asparagus sexy. Otherwise "The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle with over 250 Delicious Recipes" IS A COOKBOOK!

Date: 2000-09-06 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
HA!!! You crack me up ... I just did an out loud "Katherine" snort!!! hee-hee

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Date: 2000-09-06 01:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
d'oh! I need to get a sound file of that!

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Date: 2000-09-06 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Wha? A cookbook. yeah, right, that's the title. Although eggplant is mysterious, and asparagus can be tres sexy, this dulll romp through blandsville has none of the thrills and chills I was expecting.

hey!

Date: 2000-09-11 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
where were you today, little frog? I didn't see you post once!

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