An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
by:
Brock Clarke (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780641980220 (0641980221)
Publish date: September 4th 2007
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages no: 305
Edition language: English
If you're in an airport, and you don't have anything to read, and you are in one of those airport bookstores, and you don't see anything else you want to read more, you could buy this book and it would get you through your trip. Or you could just make up stories about the crazy ass people in the air...
When I mark this as "finished," I mean I'm finished with it, not that I completed reading the entire thing. I got less than 50 pages in and was unwilling to read further. At first it was charming and funny, but that wore off fast. The satire is mostly lame, and I did a lot of eye-rolling. The concep...
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England is best read as a spoof of fictionalized memoirs. Some reviewers haven't liked this novel; my guess is that they are reading it straight rather than as a parody of the genre. Of course the protagonist acts stupidly. Of course the characters are ei...
I am more often surprised by the ends of books than not these days. Am I losing my plot-fu? Am I narratively challenged? This is the second book in a year which has discombobulated me. (The first was Mark Watson's Bullet Points.) The narrator was so bland, so dreary that I wasn't prepared for the su...
This book was so contrived and repetetive that I put it down after about 160 pages.
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