 Welcome to church of the chair where sometimes a great book is just a flash in the pan. I'm your host E and today my memory can catch these hands. This is a discussion video. You know how we do these discussion videos by now. I ask you guys a question and you fill up the comments with your answers. Today I'm talking about 5 books. I didn't mean to pick 5 like a top 5 friday or something. It just happened to be 5 books that I have on my shelf that I absolutely loved at the time that I read them. But then I completely forgot everything about them. The first one I'm going to be talking about and I want to know down there in the comments some books that you guys have read that you remember absolutely loving but you can't remember anything about them. At the very least maybe you can remember one scene that affected you and that's why you keep the book around or why you plan to reread it or whatever. But the topic of discussion today are books that you loved that you can't remember a damn thing about. First one is My Only Wife by Jack Jemps. Despite the amazing cover that looks like you can put your finger in the keyhole you can't. It's just paper. There's no depth to it. Really cool cover though. Despite that I can't remember anything about this. I couldn't tell you the first thing about this book about the premise and any of the characters absolutely nothing. I know I read it because I wrote a review for it. I also read False Bingo which was a short story collection of this authors. I read these two back to back. I know that again because I put that in my review. But I don't remember anything about False Bingo either. That was a collection of short stories and I gave it 3 stars. But this one I gave 5 stars. I did not read my review because I wanted to go into this topic blind. And the more I'm trying to rack my brain the more I can't remember anything. Maybe it's about a missing wife. Complete blank. I have no idea. Next one up is from an author. I literally went out and bought all this dude's books because of this one book. And the second one that I read I didn't care for it all and ended up not finishing. But yeah that's Lest in Zero by Brett Easton Ellis. Whether or not you like him or not I don't care too much for him personally. But he's not someone that I stay away from because of his views. I do like his writing and I love this one. But the only thing I can remember about it I gave it 5 stars. The only thing that I can remember is that the ending disgusted me. That's the only thing I can remember. I have no idea what it's about. I have no idea what else I liked about it. Why I liked it when the ending upset me so much. I don't know I didn't read the review but this is another one. The other book that I tried that I ended up quitting was American Psycho. I absolutely loved the movie. It is an amazing film with Christian Bale and Jared Leto and some other well known actors. But I loved the movie. One of my favorite scenes of all time is him running around butt naked with a chainsaw. Amazing scene. Loved it. Couldn't tell you what this is about. The next one we have is one that might shock some of you. Now my review for this one I did read because it was only a sentence long. I gave it 5 stars and it said and I quote, this book had me ass up, tits down, screaming oh yeah. The power of the dog by Don Winslow. It's about the cartel. Okay I remember falling hard for one of the characters in this book. A dude that did not show up in the sequel whatsoever and I think that's one of the reasons why I just kind of wrote this off. I believe in the last book I can't even remember the other book's names. I do have them down here on the shelf but I'm not going to turn around and look at them because that's the point of this topic. What can you remember? I believe one of them is called The Border and one of them is called The Cartel. Maybe something. I read the second one in the series and I liked it all right but it wasn't anywhere near as good as this one and this one I can't remember anything about. So was I in a weird state of mind when I read it? I don't know. Obviously I was because that review is not like any of my other reviews and it tickles me that there was a comment on the review that said the only reason I'm buying this book is because of this review. It's the best review I've ever read. Once again all the review said was this book had me ass up tits down screaming oh yeah. I can't remember anything about this. I know Don Winslow is a great author. He's a lot of fun. His twitter is a little annoying even though I'm politically on the same side of the fence as him. I can't stand people who only talk about one thing and Winslow is one of those people. But anyways power of the dog. What's it about? I don't have a clue. Next up is another one where I went out and bought every single one of this guy's books. I got not every single one but I bought several and I bought them new too which is rare for me. I only do that with books that I absolutely love. Authors that I just completely fall in love with and that is Fuminori Nakamura I believe is how you pronounce it. That's the thief. I read this. I do recall the very first line in my review is I read this in one sitting and that's probably why I can't remember it even though there are many books like The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon that I read in one sitting. Many of Stephen King's books the first time I read it. Read it in one sitting. I can remember everything but this one and not so much. Also I will add that most of these books on this list were all read about the same time. So I don't know what I had going on. It was years before my mother passed away and that's probably the most significant life change I've been through since I started this channel and started reviewing and everything. But yeah this one I dub. It is what it is. It's obviously about a thief. What is he stealing. I don't know but I gave it five stars because I was in a mood obviously. That's going away. One is a book that this one is going to sound funny and maybe I'm admitting something here. I don't know. But I was reading my review and there was a comment in the review that said oh my god I can't believe you like this. This book is so forgettable. And I remember coming and it was like no this is one of my favorite books of the year. This is what I responded with. I don't. They were right. Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInery. I don't know what happens in this book. I don't know what it's about. I got this as an advanced review copy when Crown Publishing was doing blogging for books. They would literally send you a first edition hardcover instead of a paperback arc or a digital arc. And they close that up. I think they've gone out of business or they have merged with someone. I don't know. But yeah this one I remember it has something maybe Irish. Irish characters don't know. And I don't know if my mind is just going there because of Lisa's last name. I'm not sure. But I remember enjoying the characters. I remember it was a good character piece. But as far as scenes I don't remember a single thing. Hopefully this video is not too boring and I'm trying to make it as entertaining as possible. I thought it was a good idea when I sat down to do it. And I still do. But I just realized that every single one of these is like what happened? I don't know. Moving along. But I literally don't remember a thing about these. And I just wanted to be honest. I thought it was an interesting topic and I wanted to see if I could gain some solidarity or maybe get some validation for how weird I am that I love these books so much and I can't remember a thing about them. So definitely down there in the comments let me know if there's books that you loved that you gave five stars and you fanboy girled them all over the place. But now you can't remember anything about them. Maybe one scene is the only caveat. That's probably not the right word. But the only exception would be like you can only remember one scene in the book. But yeah, let me know down there. That's all the time I have for you today. This was this was fun for me if for no other reason than I can pick on myself and be like why why did you why did you go so hard for this book? Only to forget everything about it. Anyways, until next time, I'll hell the chair. Why does my shirt do that? I don't get it. It's what is this like particle effects? I don't know, but it's so mesmerizing.