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Category Archives: Mainstream
Mark Leyner – The Sugar Frosted Nutsack (2012) Review
9/10 This book is nuts and I won’t sugarcoat it for you. Don’t let the obviously perfect and attractive title fool you: this is a totally bonkers, post-modern wankfest to the nth degree. But it is also science-fantasy about gods … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Mark Leyner, post-modernism, review, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
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Dan Brown – Origin (2017) Review
I made it two pages in before grinning ear to ear and rushing to the computer to make notes. Dan Brown’s writing is already both hilariously overwritten when it comes to adjectives and strangely flat and blunt when it comes … Continue reading
Jose Saramago – The Elephant’s Journey (2008)
7.5/10 – historical fiction/parable I bought this one as a souvenir from my visit to Portugal, in one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores, the Livraria Lello. Jose Saramago is a Nobel Prize winner for literature, known for The Gospel … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Books, Fairy tale, Historical Fiction, Jose Saramago, Portugal, The Elephant's Journey
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Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) Review
9,5/10 Superheroes, history, magical realism The story follows two young Jewish cartoonists who create the superhero The Escapist. You know how superheroes have a tragic past? Batman lost his parents; Superman’s planet was blown up. Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Books, Fantasy, magic realism, Michael Chabon, New York, superheroes, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Escapist
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