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Alex Colvin

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Humor and Comedy, Contemporary

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Mordecai Richler, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 32 ratings · 14 reviews · 3 distinct works

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Bewilderment

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An offbeat way to explain hospice care and accepting your own death to a small child. Not ideal as a wind-down-for-bedtime story, but perhaps it could be a growth experience if administered at the right time of day and the right mindset. But it cause ...more
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I don’t consider myself a squeamish reader, I’ve read Blood Meridian maybe five times and adore Garth Innes run on The Punisher. But I’ve never been so thoroughly horrified by the act of reading as I was by this book. And, to be clear, that is the poi ...more
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Making Connections: 6561. Unquestionably Monstrous by Alex Colvin	3	24	Sep 08, 2022 02:31PM

“The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

tags: canada-inspirational, canada-reputation-montreal, canadaintheworld, canadian-humor, canadian-literature, canadian-politics, canadians, mordecairichler

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