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Peter Bognanni
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The House of Tomorrow
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| It took me awhile to be seduced by this one, but once it happened, it was nearly complete. Pretty bold to just lay your main plot point out there in the title, but the book was about much more than that. History. Memory. Legacy. And yes, Irish prep s...more | |
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| It's a sad day when a man has to give a Michael Chabon book two stars. On the whole, though, I found this indulgent, overly-fussy, and populated with characters I couldn't quite bring myself to care about. There's many an inventive sentence here, but...more | |
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I have long avoided academic satires for two main reasons. The first is that I myself am an academic of sorts and I already know how ridiculous I am. Second: the genre has always seemed to me like shooting fish (with PhDs) in a barrel. But now, I'm go...more |
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It's all about balance. And Dinaw Mengestu walks many a tightrope in what may seem at first to be a relatively small novel in scope. The major rope he must walk is between the personal and the political. When a character's past is steeped in revolutio...more |
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I would like, if I may be so bold, to try a revolutionary new rating system for this particular book. Since the novel I'm reviewing is divided into three distinct "Parts," I would like to rate each of these individual parts separately (!!!!!!!). This...more |
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“You don't have time to chitty-chat with loose women. We have work to do. And you have to save humanity. That's a lot of shit to get done.”
― Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow
― Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow
“Each one of us is the center of our own universe. That's the only way it can be. From our point of view, we are stationary and everything else is swirling around us, dropping into our lives just for our reaction.”
― Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow
― Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow
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