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Jeff Hobbs
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born
April 08, 1980
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The Tourists
   295 avg rating — 145 ratings
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2007
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5 editions
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Reading this is like talking to a supremely intelligent, insightful, easy-going, slightly boozed up literary fiend at a local bar... Not a how-to book, more like a Why book--as in, why human beings are compelled to write novels, and why novels stand a...more |
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A boring, unhappy, and obsessed Dutch cricket fanatic wanders around Manhattan. What is he obsessed with? His own mundane musings and observations, which go on and on and on. The book is gorgeously written, a little too gorgeously. Employing the tacti...more |
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This book is really "fun," lots of energy, lingo, cultural references, and humor to turn the pages...entertaining and endearing characters...well told, perfect structure, never a dull moment...etc... But, in a year that Price wrote Lush Life, Mathiess...more |
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| Some ghosts, or real people, are going to kill me...but Faulkner is BETTER than Shakespeare...no one gets more in one page (which is what makes him so difficult)...and no one writers purer human beings...no one puts it on paper with more unbridled en...more | |
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Long, slow, difficult, packed with too much scripture and too little happening, insufferably grim, eternal 100 page ending--oh, and it's completely glorious... All the great books deal with the pain and sadness that composes the broad arc of most huma...more |
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