false 1259044 6 <div>Kicked out of Yale at age 14, Judd Breslau falls in with Phillips Chatterton, a bathrobe-wearing Egyptologist working out of a dilapidated home laboratory. There, young Valerie Chatterton quickly leads Breslau away from his research and into, in order: the attic, a Colorado equestrian ranch, a porn studio beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, and a jail cell in southern Iraq, where we find him awaiting his own execution while the war rages on in the north. Written by a 90-year-old debut novelist, ex-Marine, two-time Oscar nominee, and co-creator of <i>Mr. Magoo,</i> <i>Bowl of Cherries</i> rivals the liveliest comic novels for sheer gleeful inventiveness. This is a book of astounding breadth and sharp consequence, containing all the joy, derangement, terror, and doubt of adolescence and modern times.</div> 1247873 1 10 2007 Bowl of Cherries total:334|5:39|4:116|3:120|2:44|1:15| 334 1122 663 97 4 2 false false Sun May 04 06:44:19 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 05:09:32 -0800 2008 Sun May 04 06:44:19 -0700 2008
Remember Mr. Magoo? Anyone? The blind man who did all kinds of funny things because he coul...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 01 20:57:12 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 20:57:50 -0800 2008
Kaufman is a precocious writer, unabashedly using phrases like “wee beasties,” and this particular tale is indeed cut from the same cloth as Catcher...more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 12 13:21:57 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 21:35:47 -0700 2008
Luckily for anyone w...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Oct 26 16:08:25 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 16:11:51 -0700 2008
slightly strange book by oddly hypnotic. i couldn't stop reading it. hone...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 09 09:44:45 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 10:04:57 -0700 2009
I'm not sure if the author, the ninety year old creator of Mr. Magoo, intended to simulate youth vernacular ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 08:50:27 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 14:48:34 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 11 21:58:48 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 14 12:17:41 -0800 2009
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Unfortunately, it is what it is...meaning that it's a first novel, and it shows. It shows in the tenuous structure, linked only because it's all happening to the...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 03 19:24:55 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 18:53:57 -0700 2008
And so it was that on a dank, dark autumn day, before the hermetic snows of winter gripped the world and everything went bare and shriveled and icy, I sloshed through the melancholy leaves down the tree-lined corridor of Chatterton's ancestral ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 15 20:15:37 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 11:21:36 -0800 2008
1. Both narrators are scholars that are rather unimpressed with their work.
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All the way through and I won't say that I want those hours of my life back, but this wasn't very good. The writing was unusual, especially if yo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 14:08:56 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 13:02:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 16:02:21 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 10:53:32 -0700 2008 1
The hero is like a less-loathsome Ignatius J. Reilly (Confederacy of Dunces protagonist)--he relentlessly criticizes the ridiculous elements and people in his life with a mind-blowing vocabulary and monumental se...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 22:00:18 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 13 09:17:43 -0700 2008
Observe the first paragraph on page 49:

Me? Mature? I rearranged my face into a saint's mas...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 02 09:29:31 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 09:31:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 13:56:59 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 19:18:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 17 20:54:32 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 01 20:06:54 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 17 20:54:32 -0700 2008
Every review you read of this book will start out by tellin...more...]]>