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...
Did you ever have that cool uncle? You know, the one that was 38 and drank and smoked and cavorted with hot young thangs and was a "musician" and didn't conform...
I'm always a little skeptical of books about the music biz. Not because I peripherally work in it, and have on and off since the mid-nineties, but because often...
Yet another Brooklyn book from Paul Auster. Yet another reason why I ask myself after finishing one of his books why I insist on reading him at all. He's been n...
I've read a bunch of Martin Amis books over the years. And I gotta say that he can be of a bear sometimes. Books like Money and London Fields were exciting and ...
I know as a guy with the word hipster in his URL I'm supposed to pray at the altar of Franzen. He is what every whiny hipster wants to be; a writer who has sold...
As a matter of full disclosure, I will freely admit that I have never taken an art history class. I think I took art appreciation in fourth grade as part of my ...
I've only read one Moody book and seen one film based on one of his books. Purple America was a book filled with some sad shit. The Ice Storm was a creepy subur...
If you're the type of person who looks for his books to have plots, this is not the book for you. If you expect consistent narrative structure and linear develo...
Somehow you'd think with a title that this that there might be at least, like, one laugh somewhere in the book. Well, you'd think wrong. And you'd also wonder a...
After reading White Teeth I pretty much decided to read anything and everything that Zadie Smith put out. It figured to not be a huge investment, but at least s...
I had no idea that Nicole Krauss was the wife of Everything Is Illuminated author, Jonathan Safran Foer, before purchasing this book. It proved that I know next...
Suicide is not really that funny--at least not in that haha kind of way. It is, however, the subject of an attempt at a witty book. I say attempt because it has...
Delillo is often a tough sell. Everything is metaphor and high-minded social commentary--the earmarks of post-modern literature. Of course this is almost the ol...
Is it wrong of me to like this book? It seems that just about everyone out there thinks Eggers is a blowhard and a complete egomaniac. Despite actually liking t...
Some might call it a sophomore slump. I call it biting off more than you can Jew. Before you call Smith's editor or the JDL, let me explain that I loved her fir...
Trendy usually makes for bad books. They're dated before they even come out. Authors mention name brand clothing and I'm instantly turned off. There's no timele...
So, I took a chance on this one--definitely not the first time, but maybe the last. The idea behind this book was interesting and had potential, but went pretty...
