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Jay Amari is reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Soap opera told from a questionable point of view.
Nov 16, 2025 09:18AM Add a comment
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Jay Amari is on page 20 of 135 of The Mezzanine
Wry and rueful emersion into the minutia of everyday existence, the book offers (to me at least), moments of real hilarity as the author details not only the exacting moments of discovery in his life, but emphasizes them with footnotes as if he was a subject of his own enigmatic science.
Jan 14, 2025 08:49AM Add a comment
The Mezzanine

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Jay Amari is 11% done with Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
Bordwell casts a wide scope on his overview of films and there is much to entice the reader to find out more.
Aug 30, 2024 10:16AM Add a comment
Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

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Jay Amari is starting Berlin
Wow, this is a mammoth graphic offering. What an accomplishment of epic proportions! I have barely scratched the opening of this fantastic story, and I am overwhelmed by the scope and depth of the book.
It's a great period of history to write about as so much of what is transpiring politically today can certainly be traced back to Weimar leadership and social change.
Jun 25, 2024 07:25AM Add a comment
Berlin

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Jay Amari is starting Berlin
Dense and fascinating- a magnum opus of graphic dimensions.
May 28, 2024 08:17AM Add a comment
Berlin

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Jay Amari is finished with Crosstown Traffic
It's not about you- it's about you and me.
Jun 24, 2022 08:19AM Add a comment
Crosstown Traffic

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Jay Amari is starting Rear Window And Four Short Novels
The story "Rear Window", is considered a short novel by the author, but is really a long story. It sizzles with expectation, and the main character's limited ability to see the big picture and to physically move about adds a real claustrophobic atmosphere to the text.
Mar 02, 2020 02:02PM Add a comment
Rear Window And Four Short Novels

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Jay Amari is starting Doubles
Saw the ply originally on Broadway and was reassured of its substance with a return reading.
Jun 14, 2019 11:33AM Add a comment
Doubles

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Jay Amari is starting Nightmare Alley
The last chapters are beautifully written an a vernacular but all the more clear none the less.
This is one of the great unsung noir novels of the Twentieth Century.
May 12, 2018 01:26PM Add a comment
Nightmare Alley

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Jay Amari is reading Jazz
Great overview.
Nov 03, 2017 06:40AM Add a comment
Jazz

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Jay Amari is starting The Fuck-Up
HA ha ha ... laugh-out-loud great reading- I am embarrassing myself in every Starbucks where I sit and read this one because I laugh with silly abandon at Nersesian great little book.
Jul 11, 2016 01:02PM Add a comment
The Fuck-Up

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Jay Amari is on page 120 of 336 of The Girl on the Train
How much better life must have been for jealous drunks before emails and texts and mobile phones, before all this electronica and the traces it leaves.
Jan 17, 2016 02:31PM Add a comment
The Girl on the Train

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Jay Amari is 99% done with Black List (Scot Harvath, #11)
This action novel is pure plot driven by broadly-drawn characters in a comic book world. It reads fast- the author is careful to never use a word or literary pattern that slows down the movie-like pace of the narrative.
I was not very satisfied- the story doesn't stick with me.
It feels like a great paperback choice to accompany one on a tiresome flight somewhere.
Nov 06, 2015 02:38PM Add a comment
Black List (Scot Harvath, #11)

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