Full disclosure: I have a major intellectual crush on David Foster Wallace. Yes, yes, I know about his weaknesses - the digressions, the rampant footnote abuse, the flaunting of his amazing erudition, the mess that is 'Infinite Jest'. I know all this, and I don't care. Because when he is in top ...
+ King Rewards His Constant Reader + He's BAAAACCCKKK!
Stephen King again proves that he can mesmerize readers with his graphic imagination and story-spinning skills. JUST AFTER SUNSET, which plumbs an astonishing range of genres, gives fans everything they've come to anticipate from him. As the author explains in his introduction, he has been away ...
+ Nonstop, wild ride + Not as bad as some of the reviews.
This book was an entertaining distraction from real life. Throughout the book I was excited to how the characters came colliding together in a hilarious situation born out of their own ineptness. This book is a funny tribute to human nature and Florida beauty. It was a great diversion for me ...
An involving novel about an awakening sense of social responsibility, highly recommended.
+ Unlike a lot of stories about suburban complacency + Not just for golfers!
Waggle is a novel written by golf lover Joe Redden Tigan, for fellow golf lovers and suburbanites everywhere. One ordinary day in the summer of 2003, real estate appraiser Conny Bromenn decides to inject some change and meaning into the self-absorbed life he shares with his community. He decides to ...
+ Chabon's best to date + Bittersweet like woodsmoke
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon: Ghetto Mentality Retrogression
Review by Arthur L. Finkle
Mr. Chabon writes a masterpiece of a "what-if" portion of history. In this case, what if the Jews lost their War on Independence on 1948?
The solution was one proffered at that time, ...
Full disclosure: I have a major intellectual crush on David Foster Wallace. Yes, yes, I know about his weaknesses - the digressions, the rampant footnote abuse, the flaunting of his amazing erudition, the mess that is 'Infinite Jest'. I know all this, and I don't care. Because when he is in top ...
+ Nonstop, wild ride + Not as bad as some of the reviews.
This book was an entertaining distraction from real life. Throughout the book I was excited to how the characters came colliding together in a hilarious situation born out of their own ineptness. This book is a funny tribute to human nature and Florida beauty. It was a great diversion for me ...
An involving novel about an awakening sense of social responsibility, highly recommended.
+ Unlike a lot of stories about suburban complacency + Not just for golfers!
Waggle is a novel written by golf lover Joe Redden Tigan, for fellow golf lovers and suburbanites everywhere. One ordinary day in the summer of 2003, real estate appraiser Conny Bromenn decides to inject some change and meaning into the self-absorbed life he shares with his community. He decides to ...
+ King Rewards His Constant Reader + He's BAAAACCCKKK!
Stephen King again proves that he can mesmerize readers with his graphic imagination and story-spinning skills. JUST AFTER SUNSET, which plumbs an astonishing range of genres, gives fans everything they've come to anticipate from him. As the author explains in his introduction, he has been away ...
+ Chabon's best to date + Bittersweet like woodsmoke
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon: Ghetto Mentality Retrogression
Review by Arthur L. Finkle
Mr. Chabon writes a masterpiece of a "what-if" portion of history. In this case, what if the Jews lost their War on Independence on 1948?
The solution was one proffered at that time, ...
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