by Michael Chabon
Grady Tripp has been working on the same novel for seven years. It's more than two thousand pages at this point, and there's no end in sight. On top of all this, his lover is pregnant, his wife has left him, his protégé has stolen valuable memorabilia and murdered a dog, and his editor is in town. T...
Seriously? None of the characters in the books are likable. Drunk. Stoned. Irresponsible. Half way through the book and I keep asking myself why should I care what happened to these characters. And they killed a dog. A big no no. Skip to the end and see if it would improve. Not very likely. ...
I finished The Wonder Boys yesterday morning, and already I'm struggling with how the heck I'm suppose to write a review. I'm not even sure if I can manage to put together a summary... The Wonder Boys is one of those novels that you read, and you aren't quite sure what happened. Or at least, you k...
If this is what writers of literary fiction are like, then may I never have the misfortune of becoming acquainted with one, let alone befriending one! The narrator of Wonder Boys had been struggling for several years to complete his novel, a 2,000+ page train wreck which is nowhere near done. He s...
Saw the movie when it came out, just now catching up to the novel--so it's difficult to avoid thinking of this as a fin de siecle mixer for Son of Spartacus, Wayne Gale, the second-to-last kid who played Spiderman, the girl from Dawson's Creek, John Boy, the cop from Fargo, the boss from Men in Blac...
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