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Tag Archives: literary fiction
Book Review: Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is quickly becoming one of those writer’s that I resent for their skill and the ease with which they display it. He plays with your emotions using prose so unassuming and lacking in ulterior motive that it … Continue reading
Book Review: Stoner by John Williams
When I was a kid I use to walk through graveyards. I’d search for the oldest headstones and longest lived lying beneath them. I remember running charcoal across crumbled paper in order to decipher those too weathered and beaten to … Continue reading
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Tagged american literature, classics, college, Education, Existentialism, humanity, John Edward Williams, John Williams, literary fiction, Love, perfection, Stoner, World War I
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Book Review: Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
I’ve mentioned it before and I’ll mention it again just for the sake of posterity: Murakami and I do not agree on the fundamentals of writing. He creates yamato-e paintings. Giving you the tangible as he deems necessary as well … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, cats, disassociative females, food, Haruki Murakami, Japanese Literature, jazz, literary fiction, Magical Realism, Men Without Women, surrealism, Yamato-e
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Book Review: The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Sometimes it is hard to write reviews. When you can pin one thing down that you loved, hated, emoted over intensely, you can kind of push you way into something fast and messy. I am not a great reviewer. I … Continue reading
Book Review: The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
After World War II, as one can imagine, Germany was in something of a bind when it came to moving forward. What is the correct way to move forward after an all but global rebuttal to the government of Hitler’s … Continue reading
Book Review: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Reading this book is like learning to speak another language. It is frustrating, illusive, and so densely furnished in its culture as to feel utterly inscrutable. The first part of the book attempts to teach you, albeit impatiently. It gives … Continue reading
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Tagged bollywood, classics, historical fiction, India, literary fiction, Magical Realism, Memory, Midnight's Children, Pakistan, Salman Rushdie, suffering, super powers, truth
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Book Review: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
This book should have been easy. I say this with hindsight, with the whole of the apocalyptic genre between myself and it. It should have been easy to follow the last man. It’s episodic, almost self-written. Lonely, thrilling, philosophical, introspective, … Continue reading
Book Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
This is a dystopia that has refused the name. A place where haunter and haunted pass in the street, eyes locked to asphalt, refusing to recognize one another. There is no escape, no grand revolution to see things coolly on … Continue reading
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Tagged british literature, dystopia, friendship, horror, humanity, kazuo ishiguro, literary fiction, Love, Never let me go, sci-fi, science fiction
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Book Review: Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Sweet Tooth is one of those books that felt substantially shorter than it actually was. This probably has to do with the fact that it never truly felt like it picked up whatever thread would have provided a sort of … Continue reading
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Tagged british literature, Culture Gap, England, Espionage, Ian McEwan, literary circles, literary fiction, mystery, Spy, Sweet Tooth, writer, writing
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