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reviews in haiku: September 2011

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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