With only three sections and no chapters, this book is a wall of text. But it's a clever and rather fascinating book. Kevin Quinn is our narrator—really, we spend the book in his head. We spend a day, or part of a day, with Kevin as he heads to a job interview for a job he's not even sure he wants...
Verne's stories are always fun, but Around the World is the most light weight of them all. A stereotypical English gentleman and his stereotypical French servant rush around the world and have some mild adventures. The cover of my copy of the book shows a hot air balloon floating across a map of the...
I found this book on a "best of" list for the year it was published. I realize I'm probably not its intended audience, but that's never stopped me from reading a book before, so I figured I'd give it a go. That was about two months ago and I've been trying to make my way through this ever since. Bef...
I’m a big fan of James Hynes. He blends a lot of different themes to create what’s almost a brand-new genre, but they’re close enough to horror that I feel like I can just have fun reading, while they’re so well-written that I feel like I’m reading serious literature. With Publish and Perish and T...
WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO GET TO THE FIREWORKS FACTORY?...Oh.
I'm not sure it's ever smart to do much more than suggest allusions to Virginia Woolf and her dazzling Dalloway. Push the echoes too forcefully and you'll end up seeming like nothing but a karaoke singer. (If I want to be the lead singer, endlessly reminding the audience that I idolize Aretha Fran...
I'm just too insecure for a book about a depressed temp right now
Interesting satire about academia that becomes just plain weird and silly in the end.
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