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Category: Book Reviews

Book Review: The Names of The Dead

October 3, 2016 admin

It’s official. I’ve just finished reading a book that will now join the slim ranks of the ‘greatest books I’ve…

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Book Review: Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

February 19, 2016 admin

Confession time: I was a scared kid growing up. And I mean fucking terrified. My imagination was fertile, and it…

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Book Review: The Delivery Man

February 10, 2016 admin

I stumbled upon this gem completely by chance in a bookstore a few years ago. I’d never heard of the…

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Book Review: Blood Meridian

January 25, 2016 admin

Quite possibly the most chilling and horrifying book ever written, ‘Blood Meridian’ is a unnerving glimpse of humanity at its…

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Book Review: The Stars At Noon

January 15, 2016 admin

When you hear the name Denis Johnson, you inevitably think of Jesus’ Son, the book that put the man on…

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Book Review: The Speed Queen by Stewart O’Nan

December 1, 2015 admin

If ‘The Speed Queen’ proves anything, it’s that Stewart O’Nan is one hell of a storyteller… and also that hard…

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Book Review: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter

November 20, 2015 admin

The writers I enjoy most are men of few words. So much can be said with so little when done…

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Book Review: Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

November 5, 2015 admin Leave a comment

Everything from love and loss to happiness and sheer horror is covered in this book. One moment the writing is slick as oil, the next it is jagged as broken glass. It’s downright chaotic in places where the mental states of the storytellers are in question

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Book Review: Any Human Heart by William Boyd

October 29, 2015 admin

Thick, dense, and sprawling… not my usual fare, but I simply could not put this book down. ‘Any Human Heart’…

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Book Review: City Life by Donald Barthelme

October 18, 2015 admin

Donald Barthelme is one of the most inventive, surrealist, post-modernist writers out there, and that’s saying something. Whether you actually…

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