Tag: writing
member name: Paul M.
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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 . . .
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December 02, 2008 02:38 PM EST --
Hogfather
(A Discworld Novel)
by Terry Pratchett
(4/5 stars)
In the fictional Discworld, which is carried by four elephants atop a giant turtle floating through space, what we would consider . . .
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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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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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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 . . .
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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!" . . .
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June 23, 2008 10:28 PM EDT --
Well, more or less. My YA book "Forever Young" has just been "published" on Public Bookshelf.com (under my cousin's name because he has a Paypal account and his name sounds . . .
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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, . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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June 10, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
(4/5 stars)
I first read this book about five years ago when I was just exploring the works of John Irving, who has since become my favorite writer. . . .
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April 07, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
(4/5 stars)
A Gather friend suggested after I reviewed Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books that I should give "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett a try. . . .
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August 15, 2008 04:59 PM EDT --
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
(3/5 stars)
This is the seventh John Irving novel in a row I've read and the last one for a couple weeks as I go on vacation; Irving novels are not what . . .
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October 16, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
Ragtime
by EL Doctorow
(3/5 stars)
It's really hard for me to objectively review this book. As someone who has a great love and respect for history I've always stayed away from alternate . . .
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October 19, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington
(2/5 stars)
Coming from a blue-collar neighborhood, I've never had much tolerance for the Victorian-style books dealing with balls and courting . . .
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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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March 17, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
It was way back in 1991 or 1992 when I first walked into the local Waldenbooks and saw the display for "Heir to the Empire" by Timothy Zahn billed as "the official continuation of the Star . . .
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June 20, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
(3/5 stars)
I've just about reached the halfway point in reading all of my literary hero John Irving's 11 novels in order with "The Hotel New . . .
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