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Nov 02, 2012 08:06AM
Rob Byrnes writes amazing capers. I love the edge of the seat tension as things always go horribly wrong in hilarious ways for this gang. It isn't that they're inept or stupid. They just can't ever catch a break. The big score will always slip out of their reach and they're fate's bitch. Read the other books in the series first if you want to understand how this group came together, but this one stands alone well.
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Day two of NaNoLoMo... Citizens...Superiority, by Arthur C. Clarke is required reading for any student of war history - and is part of the collection in Citizens
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1LD6KTP...
First Sunday of NaNoLoMo: Last night I finished Alif the Unseen. I picked it up because I read Wilson's memoir, THE BUTTERFLY MOSQUE. That book resonated as a former bright young thing living in a foreign land.Wilson went a different route for this novel. ALIF THE UNSEEN is a suspense meets international thriller meets modern tech geek-speak meets magical realism. OK, I just like to use the phrase "magical realism" when I don't want to admit I really enjoyed a sci-fi/fantasy novel. Everything starts off as normal as it can be in a fictional Middle Eastern city in the Arab Spring. A third of the way in things take a deliciously odd turn.
That sounds like my kind of book!
I've been sadly remiss on my Lo this Mo, but aim to make it up as best I can! This review is of John Rember's new story collection, Sudden Death Over Time:
Brilliant academic satire. This is John Rembers's take on the decay at the heart of American culture--darkly funny, beautiful, and often profound. If you're tired of finely crafted fiction that seems to take place at no time in particular, in no place in particular--fiction that seems largely divorced from the deeply complex world we live in--these stories may help you remember that art can shake us awake to our place in the world. White privilege, unconscious misogyny, and even plastic surgery were never so hilarious. This is fiction for the twilight of an empire.
