Tag: wishbone
member name: Paul M.
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September 17, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
1984
by George Orwell
(5/5 stars)
"1984"--or "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in the Oldspeak--is one of those books prophecizing doom that has remained relevant enough to generate a famous . . .
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September 18, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
These are a couple more items I've read recently that didn't make much of an impression on me and so I'm just going to toss off a couple one-paragraph reviews. For the obligatory plot . . .
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September 19, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
(4/5 stars)
For someone whose only real exposure to Jewish culture growing up was watching "Seinfeld" on TV, "Portnoy's Complaint" seems . . .
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September 19, 2007 09:42 AM EDT --
Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
(3/5 stars)
In honor of the new movie adaptation of the novel--and me scoring a free copy of the book because of it--I'm posting the review I wrote of the book when . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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July 14, 2007 12:28 AM EDT --
The Yiddish Policeman's Union
by Michael Chabon
(1 star)
I can summarize my review as follows: This is the best-written cheesy mystery/thriller EVER.
I stayed away from . . .
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August 02, 2007 08:38 AM EDT --
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
(4 stars)
I'd always stayed away from Pynchon's novels because A) They are longer than the average Harry Potter book and B) They sound bizarre. . . .
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February 15, 2008 04:24 PM EST --
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
(4/5 stars)
In case you've come to the wrong place, this book bears no relation to "White Noise" the horror movie from a few years back. But like . . .
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February 29, 2008 10:31 AM EST --
Lamb (The Gospel According to Biff…)
By Christopher Moore
(3/5 stars)
It must have been something about the end of the century that made people interested in looking beyond the . . .
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August 03, 2007 11:10 AM EDT --
Silas Marner
by George Eliot (aka Marian Evans)
(3 stars)
About halfway through when the little bundle of joy shows up in Silas's house I couldn't help thinking Dickens would have done a much . . .
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September 13, 2007 11:28 AM EDT --
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
(4/5 stars)
Those looking for a rollicking action adventure about WWII in the Pacific had better look elsewhere. It's not a John Wayne movie . . .
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February 18, 2008 10:30 AM EST --
Mostly Harmless
(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #5)
by Douglas Adams
(3/5 stars)
After I read the fourth book "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" I checked the reviews for . . .
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February 24, 2008 09:56 PM EST --
Starship Troopers
by Robert Heinlein
(3/5 stars)
I'd long heard about Robert Heinlein's "controversial" masterpiece "Starship Troopers" but it was one of those I never . . .
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February 24, 2008 10:05 PM EST --
Bluebeard
by Kurt Vonnegut
(5/5 stars)
Someone I know said "Bluebeard" was the Vonnegut YOU (and by YOU he meant everyone) didn't like. He couldn't have been more . . .
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March 05, 2008 10:43 AM EST --
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
By Kurt Vonnegut
(3/5 stars)
This is the fifth Vonnegut novel I've read in about as many months. I enjoyed "Timequake" and loved "Slaughterhouse . . .
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