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Michael Shilling
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born
June 15, 1970
in NYC, The United States
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Rock Bottom: A Novel
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The Hierophant
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"This one is easier to get into than Pickwick and Sketches by Boz, though so far lighter and less fascinating / straight-up weird.
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"Boy was it fun to read the takedowns of this book on Goodreads, containing the standard varieties of puritanical experience one comes to expect from American readers. It's gross! It's mean! It's narrated by a Nazi! So I had to give it a shot. So far...more
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| Beautifully written and quite moving at times but too restrained. One impressive aspect of the book is how little the speculative element matters. After all, we are all eventually going to "complete." So the issues of the characters didn't feel much...more | |
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| Wait, how have I not rated this book? It's probably my favorite novel. Lolita is like The Beatles –you're entitled to your opinion and to each their own but . . . seriously?...more | |
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| Huh, so I went back and looked at Lowboy again, and I still think it's quite good, but this time around it feels a great deal thinner of character and has a number of unexplored / unearned conveniences, especially concerning the treatment the mother'...more | |
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OK, now that I'm done . . . that was amazing. Um, kind of can't believe how great this book is. Fowles manages a syrupy Victorian romance that subtly comments on itself throughout. Except when he just interjects himself in, talking directly to the re...more |
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| Found Ellison as a teenager, and his stories tore me apart and rebuilt me. Just reread them 20 years later and stand in shock and reverence. Sure, these stories can at times veer towards the angry-young-man thing and / or can be a little Dr. Preposte...more | |
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| An interesting idea for a book, and I loved About A Mountain, but after a while the fact vs. accuracy debate becomes subsumed by the Fingal vs. D'Agata I-Hate-You-Too-fest. | |
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| Her death sent me back to this book, which changed my life like twenty years ago. Reading the title track brought tears to my eyes. So much ferocity paired with so much empathy. | |
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| Starts strong but then becomes very repetitious, thereby losing most of the narrative power and emotional heft. Also, the writing is at times very sloppy in syntax and maudlin in concept, like the writer couldn't bear to take his editor's advice. Too...more | |
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| Just re-read this. Total Sorcery. | |
