Short, choppy sentences which at first seemed interesting, eventually grew tiresome. Plus more racist language. What is it with these white literary types? Sick of all the n-bombs. I gave up after 50 pages.
Um... wow. That was all kinds of bad. Disjointed narration mixed with a non-existent plot combined with bland characters. The trifecta of a sucky ass novel. There's nothing I liked about this book. Perhaps a line or two. Half the time I wasn't even sure of what I was reading. Then I realize that t...
Jacques Bonnet is a French art historian with a collection of over 40,000 books. In this brief book he discusses the unique challenges that possessing so many books creates and the passions that drive a serious bibliophile. My own modest collection of 6,000 pales in comparison, but it is refreshin...
I received this book from and reviewed it for New Book Magazine.This is a book about books, written by a man in the middle of a life-long love affair with books, who has accumulated approximately 40.000 copies in his house.This is a book about having such a personal library, acquiring the books and ...
From the start I was all in and could not put the book down, though it begins simply enough with the weather.-- “A winter night, black and frozen, was moving over Japan, over the choppy waters to the east . . . Cleve stood at the window, looking out.” --Cleve is a fighter pilot, a captain, awaiting ...
Maybe it's because I think in novel terms, but I never cease to be amazed by a short story that makes a character, a place, a whatever viable and memorable despite the limitations of the form. And I'm in awe of how many different but comparably compelling ways there are to do that; all have in commo...
Maybe it's because I think in novel terms, but I never cease to be amazed by a short story that makes a character, a place, a whatever viable and memorable despite the limitations of the form. And I'm in awe of how many different but comparably compelling ways there are to do that; all have in commo...
It really bugs me when someone reviews a book by way of the standards for something other than what it is. This is a literary compilation, collection, journal. Any or all of the above will work. It is not a history or an autobiography or the like, and to dismiss or blame it for not being so is just ...
The effect was cumulative. From start to finish I followed a series of unrelated but analogous and increasingly involving incidents, each featuring lovers in a varying states of desire, devotion or disrepair. The book, a short story collection, opens with a simple wedding and ends with a couple’s bo...
It really bugs me when someone reviews a book by way of the standards for something other than what it is. This is a literary compilation, collection, journal. Any or all of the above will work. It is not a history or an autobiography or the like, and to dismiss or blame it for not being so is just ...
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