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Galatea 2.2
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers Publisher: Picador Year: 1995/2004 Pages: 336 I received Galatea 2.2 as a birthday gift from my brother—previously, I had never heard of Powers, which now surprises me...
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Publisher: Viking Adult Year: 2006 Pages: 528 Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a murder mystery: we find that out in the introduction. We also...
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The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Publisher: Penguin Year: 2003 Pages: 384 I happened upon Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair entirely by accident (though for the life of me I don’t remember how). I seem...
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Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent – Publilius Syrus – Green children perch on tiptoes to reach the crayon-wax sun, cicada-giggling to the squeak of fog-swing. The crayon is Helios Red, screaming...
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The Raw Shark Texts
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Publisher: Canongate U.S. Year: 2007 Pages: 448 The Raw Shark Texts, when you think about it, seems right up my alley: full of word games, puns, a plot based to...
View Articleid est ‘a poem about hands’
a five-legged creature, violently still upon a binding chord of minor keys, befitting major locks, has with its muted exhortations cloven wax from wick and rue from blight and sea from salt. a leaf of...
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Rant
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher: Doubleday Year: 2007 Pages: 336 I’m no stranger no Chuck Palahniuk, and perhaps that’s why in recent years my interest in his...
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All the Sad Young Literary Men
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen Publisher: Viking Adult Year: 2008 Pages: 256 Stuff White People Like is the latest satirical meme sweeping the internet (well, the white people,...
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The Raw Shark Texts
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Publisher: Canongate U.S. Year: 2007 Pages: 448 This is not the first time I’ve read The Raw Shark Texts; in fact, it was only a conspicuously-short time ago that I...
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Generosity
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Year: 2009 Pages: 304 Previously, I’ve reviewed Powers’ novels Galatea 2.2 and Three Farmers On Their Way to a Day. In...
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Galatea 2.2
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers Publisher: Picador Year: 1995/2004 Pages: 336 I received Galatea 2.2 as a birthday gift from my brother—previously, I had never heard of Powers, which now surprises me...
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Publisher: Viking Adult Year: 2006 Pages: 528 Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a murder mystery: we find that out in the introduction. We also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Publisher: Penguin Year: 2003 Pages: 384 I happened upon Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair entirely by accident (though for the life of me I don’t remember how). I seem...
View ArticleThe Vagaries of Narrative
Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent – Publilius Syrus – Green children perch on tiptoes to reach the crayon-wax sun, cicada-giggling to the squeak of fog-swing. The crayon is Helios Red, screaming...
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The Raw Shark Texts
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Publisher: Canongate U.S. Year: 2007 Pages: 448 The Raw Shark Texts, when you think about it, seems right up my alley: full of word games, puns, a plot based to...
View Articleid est ‘a poem about hands’
a five-legged creature, violently still upon a binding chord of minor keys, befitting major locks, has with its muted exhortations cloven wax from wick and rue from blight and sea from salt. a leaf of...
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Rant
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher: Doubleday Year: 2007 Pages: 336 I’m no stranger no Chuck Palahniuk, and perhaps that’s why in recent years my interest in his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
All the Sad Young Literary Men
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen Publisher: Viking Adult Year: 2008 Pages: 256 Stuff White People Like is the latest satirical meme sweeping the internet (well, the white people,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Raw Shark Texts
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Publisher: Canongate U.S. Year: 2007 Pages: 448 This is not the first time I’ve read The Raw Shark Texts; in fact, it was only a conspicuously-short time ago that I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Generosity
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Year: 2009 Pages: 304 Previously, I’ve reviewed Powers’ novels Galatea 2.2 and Three Farmers On Their Way to a Day. In...
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