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Brian Budzynski earned his MFA from Roosevelt University, where he received the university's thesis award. He has worked for Dalkey Archive Press, Fiction Collective 2, Other Voices, American Book Review, and Review of Contemporary Fiction. For the past 20 years, he has worked as a writer and editor in various capacities. He lives in Illinois. ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 24 ratings · 7 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Barn and the Castle 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Brian Budzynski rated a book The Stand by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Calling it at pg 362. Contradictory to pretty much all other reviews of this I’ve read, this simply never took off for me. Some of it is typical King overwriting. Some is structural. I tried the original 1978 over the 1990 expanded, hoping it would m ...more
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Calling it at pg 362. Contradictory to pretty much all other reviews of this I’ve read, this simply never took off for me. Some of it is typical King overwriting. Some is structural. I tried the original 1978 over the 1990 expanded, hoping it would m ...more
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Brian Budzynski rated a book really liked it Cold Sunset: A Gabriel Dax Novel by William Boyd	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Brian Budzynski rated a book liked it South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Banal, often remarkably dull. No tension, no real mystery. The ending revealed nothing. Last 20 pgs = skimmed. And yet there were small pockets of interest. The dynamic between Hajime and Shimamoto, if it was ever even real at all, felt lived in, des ...more
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Brian Budzynski rated a book liked it Straight Man by Richard Russo (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Made me laugh more than I expected. Hank does eventually wear out his welcome to some degree in the last 100 pages. I did do some skimming. Buttons up fairly well. The wife character was almost unnecessary, except to be the reason Hank doesn't actual ...more
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Brian Budzynski rated a book really liked it The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
More like 4.5. The editing and cadence here were interesting. The comma is forcing you to both slow down and consider what was saying, and also consider the way people actually speak as opposed to the careful curation of typical novelistic dialogue a ...more
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Brian Budzynski rated a book did not like it To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Sadly dropped this around pg. 80, despite it only being 176 pgs long. This is an example of a book very much of its time and unlikely to have ever seen the light of day had the author not already had a deservedly established reputation. It is disjoin ...more
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