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This much ignorance about literature can only lead to hurt feelings and a whole lot of nonsense.

Three Days in April

Three Days in April

I'm a bit of a non-purest when it comes to my reading habits of late. I feel like I used to only choose difficult books that looked impressive while I read them...
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This Book Does Not Exist

This Book Does Not Exist

Let's start off with the fact I downloaded this book for free. I didn't steal it, mind you. I downloaded it from Amazon for $0. I'm not sure what the sales stra...
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Cutter and Bone

Cutter and Bone

I decided, after reading one too many post-modern literary books, that I'd try a new genre. That being California crime fiction. I had no idea what to expect, h...
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The Bone Clocks

The Bone Clocks

I've been a fan of David Mitchell over the years. I loved his mystical sci-fi stuff (Cloud Atlas) and his kind of spiritual, magical realism stuff (Ghostwritten...
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Then We Came to the End

Then We Came to the End

So we all remember reading Bright Lights, Big City and its mind-bending use of the second-person narrative structure. You felt immersed in a very drugged-out ki...
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Bleeding Edge

Bleeding Edge

I thought I was making a smart decision trying to read this book. After all, I'd given up on the more esoteric Pynchon in favor of his more accessible works lik...
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The Flamethrowers

The Flamethrowers

I don't belong to a book club. Shocking, I know. But I do listen to a bunch of podcasts, among them one that occasionally suggests books and turns it into a boo...
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The Circle

The Circle

I realize now that I really don't like these types of book. Call them near-term sci-fi or societal dystopic fantasy or a pretentious author commenting on a geo-...
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2666

2666

An epic, 900-page novel made up of five books and loosely centered around hundreds of murders of young women in Mexico sounds like just the kind of light readin...
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The Namesake

The Namesake

As is typical of Indian novels, this is a tale of family and all the fucked up things that happen to them. And of course there's a train accident where lots of ...
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1Q84

1Q84

Full disclosure: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of my favorite books of all time, so all Murakami books are judged against it. This book, it seemed from the ...
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Telegraph Avenue

Telegraph Avenue

I realize thinking back on Michael Chabon's books that I'm less of a fan than I thought I was. Or more like I'm a fan and then not, and then am and then not. We...
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11/22/63

11/22/63

It's been, I don't know, about 400 years since I last read a Stephen King book. Granted, there was a large chunk of my adolescence when that was all I read. I t...
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The Pale King

The Pale King

Nobody ever said David Foster Wallace was an easy read. Granted, some of his books are easier than others. I got through Infinite Jest, with all of its end note...
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John Dies at the End

John Dies at the End

I decided with this one to break out of the box and read something outside of my typical genre. Granted, I'm not sure this is really anyone's genre. After all w...
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