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Bright Before Us
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Katie Arnold Ratliff, Tin House Books
Denzel
, July 13, 2011
A menagerie of annoying characters. I hadn't read all the good press until I'd finished this book and I can't figure out what the big deal is. Ratliff spends so much time detailing the every fart in a characters day that I have to wonder what was her editor thinking in not having her cut a large amount out of the B story. I understand that paranoia and self obsession are thematically important to her story and style, but the extent in which she fixates on insignificant conversations and actions, makes pages long, and the novel feel like a writing exercise. In the end: I found the narrative rambling and non compelling, the author's writing too cautious, and the conclusion safe and predictable. I would not recommend this book.
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Skippy Dies
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Paul Murray
Denzel
, January 03, 2011
My favorite book of 2010 came as an addition to my indiespesible subscription. Paul Murray accomplishes so much in this book that it could stand as a text for all pipe dream novelists who want to test the limits of narrative without making a boring experimental mess. Characters float between first person to third, answer questions in interview form, never ever loose humor or personality, but better yet guess what he doesn't do: write text in a pyramid structure, begin the story on the jacket, or any of that gimmicky garbage. This book is so much fun to read it'll make you wonder how he was able to do it all so easily. Serious without being serious, endlessly hopeful and sad. I find this book an inspiration just as I found dandelion wine; it's most needing of a puddly award.
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Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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Aimee Bender
Denzel
, October 26, 2010
This book is bad, silly, and poorly written with inconsistent explanations as told by the narrator. The author either didn't know very much about her own characters or got lazy and hid from explaining their motivations with a long winded "just cause". I don't want to say much more it was just a waste of time.
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