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John Julius Reel
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February 2021
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My Half Orange: A Story of Love and Language in Seville
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¿Qué pinto yo aquí?: Un neoyorquino en la ciudad de nunca jamás
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| Dematagoda’s a very skilled writer, with legitimate literary pretensions. He has a great ear for dialogue, can lift off on flights of inspired prose, can be experimental, but also adhere to more traditional storytelling forms and devices. He’s so ski ...more | |
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| Meiselman: The Lean Years is impressive. From the “Saturday” chapter till the end—about a quarter of the book—the writing is inspired. A lot of reviewers call the book funny. I’d say it’s comic; the irony it displays is sad. Although Meiselman’s comp ...more | |
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| Delirium Vitae is the book every young guy with inner demons, wanderlust, and literary ambitions dreams of writing. LeBrun, in a quest to escape himself and a sad family life, ends up, after some wild experiences and encounters in Mexico and Costa Ri ...more | |
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| Dreams from My Father impressed me, although the final section, in which Obama returns to Africa, lacks the power that it might have had, if executed better. In the following video, I point out how much Obama's story has in common with another excell ...more | |
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| Hillybilly Elegy is impressive in a lot of ways that left-leaning literary types do not want to admit. The book has its faults though, as I point out in the following YouTube video, where I compare HillyBilly Elegy to Barack Obama's equally excellent ...more | |
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| A fascinating and insightful reflection on literary life. Even better, Boyle writes from the margins, not from the main stream. I did the following in-depth video review of the book: https://youtu.be/gCzX2q7HcOw ...more | |
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| Everyone who has participated in the love fest of praise and promotion for this book is at best sadly mistaken. Perhaps they’ve bought into the hype, perhaps they´re part of the literary establishment (or her friend), and therefore are afraid to tell ...more | |
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| I'm giving this book five stars because it's lean, learned, funny, and raw all at the same time, but most of all because it's unabashedly written for hopped-up heterosexual males with wanderlust, and who are out to fearlessly find themselves. Books l ...more | |
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| This is a gutsy novel by a very talented writer with a philosophical bent. Grishakova is ambitious in the best of ways. I was not surprised to learn that Dostoyevsky is an influence. I reviewed The Hermit, along with the other three debut titles of H ...more | |
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| I´m giving this book five stars because it's a masterpiece of fictional craft. Pristine sentences, perfectly-formed chapters, bang-on comic timing. At times I thought it was a bit too carefully written, but clearly that's a minor complaint. I review ...more | |
