Afterlove
by lz in Stranded on 28Sep2006
Never have I sweat so much about putting a book on my Stranded list. But strand it, I must, after 50 pages. This is not the kind of reading I enjoy. I never would have picked up this book had the author not pressed it into my hands and asked...
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Speak
by lz in Reading Archive on 24Sep2006
Gulped this one down in an afternoon-- teen lit seems to be where my heart is at these days. Melinda enters freshman year of high school with no friends because of a summer party turned bad. Her friend Rachel takes her to a senior party during the summer, where Melinda...
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You've got to love a book filled with the masturbation tales of a teenage boy. This one also got me props (or was it raised eyebrows?) from people at the bar where I was reading... "Oh I read that long ago ." and "You'd like it more if you were...
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The Nubian Prince
by lz in Reading Archive on 19Sep2006
Sex scout and non-Omnisicent Narrator, Moises, roots through garbage dumps and immigration shipwrecks to find the next prize for the Barcelona club who employs him. Alongside particulars of the sex trade, Moises dips into stories from his past (mom's "little thing" e.g. depression; the ritual of waking up each morning...
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I've been using the San Francisco library for 84 months, checking out an average of 4 books per month. For the first time, they've reported a book lost that I returned. That's a 0.3% failure rate, which isn't terrible, but with a computerized system, the error rate should be much...
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This looks to be a book after my own heart-- good writing, drunk characters, what more do you need? In the first chapter, Jim Willard sits alone in a booth, swirling whiskey and water, time stopping and getting lost in drunkenness. He fends off a woman who attempts to engage...
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Ask The Dust
by lz in Reading Archive on 02Sep2006
If anything, this book makes me hunger for a re-read of Nathanael West. Like most people, I was turned onto this book by Charles Bukowski's glowing recommendation. Fante has a clear, direct style of writing that complement's Bukowski's own. But I wasn't particularly drawn into the story-- Arturo Bandini, the...
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