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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
Vintage, 2001
A dizzying book
+ I really liked it, but it's not for everyone - 4 1/2
+ A.H.B.W.O.S.G. Review
There is an image at the beginning of this book, of two brothers driving along Highway 1. They are flying on the edge of the world, going too fast, with only the guardrail between them and the ocean below, and they feel dizzy and free and reckless. It's an image that captures part of the soul of ...
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Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
Harper Perennial, 2005
One of the best books ever written
+ Everything is Illuminated
+ everything you could wish and fear life to be
This is my second favorite book. The imagination and narration is simply fantastic. I have never experienced imagination as beautiful as the telling of TrachimBrod. Every chapter about this city is glowing with incredible anecdotes and interesting characters. In fact, Brod is by far the best ...
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006
Wonderful read for good laughs
+ A Childhood Undesired: A Review of Running with Scissors
+ A humorous romp through an unusual childhood
+ Liked the Movie Better
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Wonder Boys: A Novel
Michael Chabon
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
Literary Fireworks
+ "Why did you keep writing this book if you didn't even know what it was about?"
+ Wonder Boys: A Novel
+ Great Writing About Writing
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Absurdistan: A Novel
Gary Shteyngart
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Slow start, finishes with a bang.
+ Another fascinating tale
+ Prophetic!
+ Not a book to leave around for your teenage sons to read
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The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg: A Novel
Geoff Herbach
Three Rivers Press, 2008
I love this book for obvious reasons
+ Unique Novel
+ a very good book
+ The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999
On Another Level
+ Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.
+ A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-"
+ One of the best
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Dear Everybody
Michael Kimball
Alma Books, 2008
SO UNIQUE!
+ Fantastic!
+ Shooting Stars Mag Reviews
+ Funny and Heartbreaking
+ Great Story, Great Read
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Home Land: A Novel
Sam Lipsyte
Picador, 2005
Acerbic look at a failed life
+ high-larious
Sam Lipsyte has taken an anti-hero and made him likable. This is a tall order, but Lipsyte is not fazed.
Lewis Miner aka Teabag is one of the most acerbic and cynical narrators I have seen in literature. His view of the world is entirely jaundiced. There is no secret hope or longing. Everything ...
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1996
Great Characters Living With Death
+ 25 words or less
+ Lighthearted and comical, yet dark and meaningful
+ Incredible
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Home Land: A Novel
Sam Lipsyte
Picador, 2005
Acerbic look at a failed life
+ high-larious
Sam Lipsyte has taken an anti-hero and made him likable. This is a tall order, but Lipsyte is not fazed.
Lewis Miner aka Teabag is one of the most acerbic and cynical narrators I have seen in literature. His view of the world is entirely jaundiced. There is no secret hope or longing. Everything ...
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Dear Everybody
Michael Kimball
Alma Books, 2008
SO UNIQUE!
+ Fantastic!
+ Shooting Stars Mag Reviews
+ Funny and Heartbreaking
+ Great Story, Great Read
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Wonder Boys: A Novel
Michael Chabon
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
Literary Fireworks
+ "Why did you keep writing this book if you didn't even know what it was about?"
+ Wonder Boys: A Novel
+ Great Writing About Writing
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006
Wonderful read for good laughs
+ A Childhood Undesired: A Review of Running with Scissors
+ A humorous romp through an unusual childhood
+ Liked the Movie Better
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The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg: A Novel
Geoff Herbach
Three Rivers Press, 2008
I love this book for obvious reasons
+ Unique Novel
+ a very good book
+ The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg
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