false <![CDATA[Lucky Man]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172027687m/133728.jpg 133728 1 Lucky Man is a story about friendship, growing-up and trying to move on. Interwoven throughout are explorations into dreams, the Twilight Zone, the Grateful Dead, and The Greatest American Hero. There are drugs, road trips, breakdowns, violence, and adultery. Fathers and sons try to make sense of their relationships and characters question what it means to know God. It is a quintessentially American tale, and at the end only one character remains on his feet. Whether this means he is lucky, or not, will need to be decided by the reader. 128823 15 3 2007 Lucky Man total:36|5:15|4:16|3:3|2:2|1:0| 36 152 126 16 4 2 false false Wed Jan 02 12:32:20 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 08:34:41 -0800 2008 __________________

In this book, Lucky Man, by Ben Tanzer, I found many grammatical errors, such as commas needed in several places and words missing to complete phrases, such as the/and/a. I found...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 06:23:49 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 04:09:19 -0700 2007
Was a little thrown by the ending, but it's my own fault, not the aut...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 09:41:29 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 13:26:14 -0700 2008
This is, as the reader wil...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 06:22:12 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 06:22:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 14:31:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 15:20:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 22:32:16 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 08:25:08 -0700 2008 Update:
I changed my mind and gave this book 5 stars instead of
4 stars. From now on. In my world every writer gets 5 stars and poops Pulitzers. ]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 01:46:01 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 08:34:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 09:38:54 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 05:09:43 -0700 2008 Full disclosure: I know Ben Tanzer (although we’ve yet to meet in person) and will actually be reading with him at Freebird Books in Brooklyn, NY on September 28. (http://www.kenwohlrob.com/2008/08/mark-y...)

Some books have a way of winning you over. I remember the first time I picked ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 30 16:51:17 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 16:53:30 -0800 2007 IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE: Some of Tanzer's newest work is currently being considered for CCLaP's upcoming publishing program, which...more...]]> 2 0 false true Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 13:43:58 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 14:03:54 -0700 2008
The book is told from the perspective of four different friends, switching every chapter to a different view point. The chapters are grouped according to ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 11 09:54:03 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 20:33:41 -0700 2008 As I Lay Dying, or Dills’s Sons of the Rapture contemporarily speaking, Ben Tanzer’s debut novel Lucky Man (Manx Media, 2007) splits the narration among the four chief characters, who are otherwise known as Gabe, Jake, Louie, and Sammy. And as the back of the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 16:17:16 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 14:07:57 -0800 2008
I wasn't sure how he was going to tie it all together...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 22:15:33 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 16:57:57 -0800 2008 On the Road-like road trip, I was happy to bum along, expecting it to end in the requi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 12:28:52 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 19:13:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 18 12:55:40 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 07 22:16:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 27 15:28:33 -0800 2007 Mon May 25 07:03:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 18:15:55 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 18:15:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 10 12:06:49 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 12:06:49 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 11:47:45 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 11:47:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 23 20:12:56 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 20:12:56 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=133728