Tag: literature
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July 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
It seems as though each time you check his website, Ian McEwan has collected another award, and with the success of Atonement he has to be considered one of the great living novelists in English. Although . . . more
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October 15, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
(5/5 stars)
I haven't seen more than a few minutes of the famous 1975 film version of this novel. But even for me, it's hard reading this . . . more
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July 11, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
Most of After the Floods is set in the fictional town of Cold Beak Minnesota, desolate from a flood. In these pages, Pete moves to Cold Beak from the Iron Range after the death of his wife.
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June 06, 2008 09:49 PM EDT --
My 2008 A-Z Author Book Challenge
Welcome Lists, Lists, and More Lists members and anyone who should happen across this list.
A friend . . . more
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March 25, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
The New Orleans Times-Picayune has been kind to my new novel, After the Floods . In a review of Feb. 27, Susan Larson writes that "Henricksen brings such fey charm to this spiritual comedy, with . . . more
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October 10, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
(3/5 stars)
This is the kind of book I finish reading and have to begin a search of my own. I look for Cliff Notes, Wikkipedia entries, Amazon reviews, anything . . . more
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October 02, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Money
by Martin Amis
(3/5 stars)
While "Money" is a highly entertaining, raunchy yarn, it suffers when read 20+ years later from being an '80s novel. Like every story . . . more
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June 13, 2008 09:56 AM EDT --
Last night Northern Lights Books and Gifts of Duluth, MN threw a launch party for Anthony Bukoski's North of the Port, his fifth collection of short stories. With these books, lovingly depicting . . . more
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June 06, 2008 12:52 AM EDT --
Read 50 Books from the 1001 Books List in 2008
Welcome Read 50 Books In One Year members and anyone who should happen across this list.
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September 26, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
(2/5 stars)
I think I might have liked this book a lot more if I hadn't listened to the audiobook version. 22 hours of stereotyped Indian and Jamaican accents was . . . more
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October 01, 2007 04:14 PM EDT --
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
(5/5 stars)
Salman Rushdie is the third author I've read recently that I'd put off reading for many years out of a misplaced fear I'd find . . . more
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November 01, 2007 09:24 AM EDT --
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
(3/5 stars)
The farther I got, the more obvious the conclusion that I read this too late in life. Had I read this as a teenager or in college I could have romanticized . . . more
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November 02, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
(3/5 stars)
The next edition the publisher prints could use the tag line: If you loved "The Road" you'll love "The Painted Bird!" . . . more
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October 15, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
(4/5 stars)
There are two ways of perceiving Cervantes's "Don Quixote." In the modern interpretation Don Quixote is an idealistic dreamer, . . . more
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October 23, 2007 12:36 PM EDT --
Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
(5/5 stars)
There are two words to describe this book: weird and wonderful. You could substitute "quirky" for weird if you want, because . . . more
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October 29, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
(4/5 stars)
This is one of those books that may be a challenge for some readers because the narrative is like . . . more
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November 14, 2007 01:51 PM EST --
I was listening to On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony, a book-on-tape (only it's a book-on-iPod, now.) The book is about a guy who becomes the Incarnation of Death, one of the Five Incarnations, . . . more
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June 19, 2008 08:53 PM EDT --
An article in the current New Republic , "The Country of the Damned" by Adam Kirsch (TNR June 25) awakened memories. Kirsch discusses the grip that the Southern Agrarian ideology held on . . . more
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June 08, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
Read 50 Books from Around the World in 2008
Welcome Read 50 Books In One Year members and anyone who should happen across this list.
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December 03, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
(4/5 stars)
This is another one of those books I'd long heard about and meant to get around to reading at some point. Finally . . . more
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