Comments on: Reviews: Books – The Bronx is Burning http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/chronicles/2008/05/27/reviews-books-the-bronx-is-burning/ Thoughts, Opinions, and Irrational Ranting Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:29:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Genevieve http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/chronicles/2008/05/27/reviews-books-the-bronx-is-burning/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Genevieve Fri, 30 May 2008 16:39:30 +0000 http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/chronicles/?p=20#comment-68 remember the amazing stock footage of the girls from Brooklyn outside the discos!? best part of the miniseries - the chick being all, "Yaaaaah ... [gum chomp] I know I could, like, be shot but I'm not [gum chomp] going to let that stop me from go-in [chomp] out." She was my hero. And I completely agree about this part: "There was all this time spent describing the years before 1977, but none describing the years afterwards." The book had a real sense of anticlimax, which was weird because the miniseries build the tension of the various events so perfectly. I think I liked it because I am just so, so enraptured with this time period in New York, and I want to go back in time and live there so much. Also, I like baseball. I need to see the miniseries again. (Stark, you are going to be soooo disappointed - but amused nonetheless!) remember the amazing stock footage of the girls from Brooklyn outside the discos!? best part of the miniseries – the chick being all, “Yaaaaah … [gum chomp] I know I could, like, be shot but I’m not [gum chomp] going to let that stop me from go-in [chomp] out.” She was my hero.

And I completely agree about this part: “There was all this time spent describing the years before 1977, but none describing the years afterwards.” The book had a real sense of anticlimax, which was weird because the miniseries build the tension of the various events so perfectly.

I think I liked it because I am just so, so enraptured with this time period in New York, and I want to go back in time and live there so much. Also, I like baseball. I need to see the miniseries again. (Stark, you are going to be soooo disappointed – but amused nonetheless!)

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