This was a book that lived up to the hype surrounding it when it came out. It is a great story about love, friendship, loyalty, marriage, ... loved it.
The whole time I was reading this book I kept thinking, "Wow, this author really hates women!" The female characters in this book were of two types; the closed off, prissy wives and the lovely, sexually adventurous mistresses. They were completely one dimensional. However, the men were equally fl...
I debated between four and five stars on this one, but really the only reason I would doc it a star is that I spent a huge portion of it preoccupied with the fact that Sheppard couldn't possibly be a detective in 2010 or 2011 given that he was just starting medical school in 1944 (making him no youn...
i think this is the book i've recommended most this year, aside from Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, but all the same it's taken me a while to get to this review. i think that's because however much i enjoyed this book, it puzzled me, and i really wanted to solve that puzzle, to understa...
There are moments in Hitchcock's Vertigo where the film seems ready to implode under the weight of so many layers of elaborate and unnatural artifice:--the con game around doubles and desire in the film (X doesn't mean X, it means Y), --the florid psychological thickets of symbol and image (X doesn'...
This book reminded me of National Novel Writing Month, when I ramble on incessantly to reach a particular word count. Except I like my own characters more and have an idea of what's going on.
Mr. Peanut is an odd book. I not so sure whether it's in a good way, or a bad way.On the surface it's a straight up crime/mystery novel. Nothing to see here folks move along. It is a story of marriage, several of them and murders that happen along the way. But then the book gets all trippy, and ...
A matryoshka doll of tedious wankery. Hundreds of pages of self-indulgent male midlife crisis navel-gazing could have been cut from the middle of this book.
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