Welcome to autumn. Here’re some bite-sized reviews.
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Ready Player One
big old dork opus
nerd stuff flows like Mountain Dew
but it’s not that great
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Victory Chimp
chimpanzee blow jobs!
this book is really insane
audiobook rocks
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Wildflower Hill
grandma’s boring farm
more like Forgettable Hill
story good, write bad
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Jazz
excellent poems
space and time seemingly cease
topical and smart
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The Book of Life
prose: simple, direct
longer than most short stories
great complexity
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The Earth Chronicles Expeditions
Bible aliens?
paunchy Indiana Jones?
pretend it’s fiction
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The Thin Man
great gumshoe noir
tons of style, also booze
Asta is the dog
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The Keeper of Lost Causes
Danish crime novel
features hapless detective
Laarson wannabe
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The Revisionists
muted time travel
just the right splash of sci-fi
excellent thriller
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