Members

Adam Kondonijakos

Adam is the founder of the Pleasant Hill Book Club. Adam was looking for a book club to join that would have a diverse group of people and have a diverse selection of books. After searching high and low with no success, he decided to create the Pleasant Hill Book Club. Adam's favorite genres of books include science fiction, memoir, classics, historical non-fiction, and graphic novel. Some of his favorite authors include Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Woodward, Ray Bradbury, Alan Moore, and Kurt Vonnegut.

To compare books to Adam visit his ratings at Goodreads.com:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/276681?shelf=read

Other Pleasant Hill Book Club Members include:

*Josh S.
*Whitney M.
*Bryan M.
Tony C.
Erica P.
Bryan S.


*- founding member

About

The Pleasant Hill Book Club was created for book lovers who wanted to be a part of a club that was not bound to specific genres or members. As a group we celebrate the diversity that is literature and hope to continue to expand the horizons of our knowledge and thought. This is a co-ed book club where the genre of book can change from month to month. It is a book club where we can read an American classic one month and then an airplane mystery novel the next. The selection process of the book rotates from member to member each month and allows for the option of a second or third book to read just in case you finish the first one early.

The group meets every second Wednesday of the month at the Pleasant Hill Borders. Currently we have open enrollment. If you would like to join, please contact us at avkondon@pleasanthillbookclub.com.

If you do not have the time to commit to a monthly meeting, you can stay involved with the group in the following ways.

Our Blog: pleasanthillbookclub.blogspot.com

Our Online Club: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5883.Pleasant_Hill_Book_Club_Online

Our Twitter page: http://twitter.com/P_HillBookClub

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse tells the story of Jack, a small town factory worker, who moves to the city to find wealth and power. However when he finally makes it to the city, after avoiding a cannibalistic farmer, its not opportunity that he finds. What he finds instead is a collection of drug addicted, alcoholic, vice-ridden toys and nursery rhyme characters. Oh, and he finds one more thing...a demonic homicidal maniac bent on killing off all the humans in the city and taking over the world.

Now if that does not grab your attention, I don’t know what will.

Author Robert Rankin does a masterful job of telling this story with a quick wit that reads much like the classic absurdist play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. There are also a fair amount of post-modern features to the book. The main character Jack, who is coaxed into becoming the detective partner of a stuffed bear who is trying to solve this murder mystery, very often will compare their actions to the detective novel genre and use that as a guide to how they should respond in any given situation.

The stuffed bear, Eddie, is probably the best character in the book. He’ full of sawdust, loves to drink, and due to a mental condition cannot make corroborative nouns. So everything is, “as wet as”, “as drunk as”, “as dead as.”

If you are looking for a book with depth or some deeper meaning about humanity, culture or civilization this probably isn’t the book for you. If, on the other hand, you just want a book that will put a smile on your face then this book is as good as. This book was a fun read and perfect for a quick weekend read or long plane trip.

Whitney/ Bryan/ Stephanie Reviews

Adam/ Josh/ Tony Reviews

Adam's Reviews
All ratings are out of 5 stars:

The Hobbit: 4.5 stars
What the Dead Know: 2.5 stars
Three Cups of Tea: 3.5 stars
You Remind Me of Me: 0.5 stars
Something Wicked This Way Comes: 4.5 stars
Me Talk Pretty One Day: 4 stars
Born Standing Up: 3.5 stars
Daniel X: 3 stars
Watchmen: 5 stars
The Dead Room: 1 star
The Movie Goer: 4.5 stars
Bright Shiny Morning: 3 stars
Cat's Cradle: 5 stars
Band of Brothers: 4 stars
Sex Lives of Cannibals: N/A
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: 4.5 stars
Dry: 4 stars



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