Tag: Book Reviews

In The Things They Carried, Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien called upon his own wartime experiences, labeled them as fiction, and wrote one of the most emotionally potent books I’ve ever read. It’s irrelevant to me how much of O’Brien’s book “really happened” because O’Brien’s words and stories in The Things They Carried deeply touched me. …

Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll – A Book Review

Nov 2, 2008

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Land of Laughs was actually recommended to me based on my love of Paul Auster by someone I’ve never met. Though I was totally unfamiliar with Jonathan Carroll, I’m always on the hunt for new (to me) authors, so I figured I’d give him a shot! Land of Laughs is about a man named Thomas…

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – A Book Review

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A few weeks ago I was looking around for some new books to read and ran across The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I’ll admit, the title kind of turned me off. I liked the time travel part, but the wife part made me think that it might be a bit too sappy for…

The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Night-Time by Mark Haddon – A Book Review

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They say never to judge a book by its cover, but with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, that is exactly what I did. Sorry, folks, but I simply could not resist the orange cover with the cut out image of an upside-down dog. I thought to myself, “If that novel is…

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon – A Book Review

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It’s a rare thing when you come to the end of a book and you’re actually sorry that it’s almost over. You find yourself sorrowful that these characters are soon no longer going to be a part of your daily life. That’s how I felt near the conclusion of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &…

Life of Pi by Yann Martel – A Book Review

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It’s very hard for me to admit this, but I couldn’t finish this novel. This is a rare thing for me as a lover of literature and as a writer of fiction. I always try to learn as much from other authors as I possibly can. My apologies, Mr. Martel, I’m sure this was a…

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon – A Book Review

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I’ve become convinced that Michael Chabon is our greatest contemporary American author at the moment. It was his outstanding novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay that planted such a seed in my mind, but it is his novel, Wonder Boys, that cements such a notion. Wonder Boys is about a nearly over the…

Old School by Tobias Wolff – A Book Review

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The most important thing to realize about this novel is that this is a story for people who either write themselves or have at least thought about writing at some moment in their life, which is fortunate because I don’t know many avid fiction readers who haven’t entertained such a notion at one point. Point…

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster – A Book Review

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