This latest entry in the acclaimed “Femmes Fatales: Women Writing Pulp” series builds on the spectacular 2003 launch, featured on NPR, The New York...
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Mar 31, 2010
Greg
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I'm a fucking idiot. I just erased this review for a second time after re-writing it again.
Fuck that. The original was genius, think James Joyce mating with TS Eliot and you will not even get close to the greatness of the first sentence.
I'm not even trying again.
To paraphrase:
The book was entertaining, and good for a couple of hours of amusement.
The book is not high literature, nor would this person with a penis say is it a fe More...
Fuck that. The original was genius, think James Joyce mating with TS Eliot and you will not even get close to the greatness of the first sentence.
I'm not even trying again.
To paraphrase:
The book was entertaining, and good for a couple of hours of amusement.
The book is not high literature, nor would this person with a penis say is it a fe More...
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Nov 22, 2010
Mitch
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What a crazy adventure of 1950's pulp fiction! In this story full of mindgames and mayhem, Blanche, a young mother goes to pick up her daughter from her first day of school, and to her horror, Bunny (the daughter) isn't there.
In a panic Blanche is on the hunt to rescue her daughter, and tries to get help from the police. But soon both the police and the school find no records of Bunny's existance...and Blanche is dismissed as insane. With a mental health doctor at her side, Blanche w More...
In a panic Blanche is on the hunt to rescue her daughter, and tries to get help from the police. But soon both the police and the school find no records of Bunny's existance...and Blanche is dismissed as insane. With a mental health doctor at her side, Blanche w More...
Jul 02, 2009
Nicole
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This is a tight harsh look at how people make value judgments. How quickly Blanch is categorized as unbalanced as she searches, with increasingly uncontrolled agitation, for her missing daughter. Her nervous concern and simplistic attitude towards her daughter Bunny's first day at school is in part due to Blanches own extreme youth and inexperience. So she seems sympathetic if tiresome. Blanche does not become really interesting until Bunny begins to seem fictitious despite Blanche being fiercel
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Feb 17, 2010
Brandon
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I may be a little biased as I had seen the movie first, but this kept me reading until I was finished. I enjoyed this thoroughly.
I love the allusions not matter how obscure or obvious they were. (The Scarlet Letter, Shakespeare, and "The Lady or the Tiger?" are all mentioned.)
The story is simply, but the atmosphere is thick. Some of the scenes were downright creepy. I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery novels.
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I love the allusions not matter how obscure or obvious they were. (The Scarlet Letter, Shakespeare, and "The Lady or the Tiger?" are all mentioned.)
The story is simply, but the atmosphere is thick. Some of the scenes were downright creepy. I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery novels.
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Jan 11, 2012
Bunxena
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Oct 08, 2008
Annie
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I am trying this new thing of reading more than one book at a time, and it is fun! I am reading three mysteriouish books at once, and they could not be more different. (For the record, they are Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sue Barton Rural Nurse and this one. Also, I am reading Shopaholic and Baby, which is somewhat less mysterious.)
So. Bunny Lake is three years old, and she is missing! We don't know how or why. It is the 1950s and Bunny's mother is a single parent, who had h More...
So. Bunny Lake is three years old, and she is missing! We don't know how or why. It is the 1950s and Bunny's mother is a single parent, who had h More...
Jan 29, 2012
Will
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Set in 1950s New York City- A young single mother (Blanche)drops her toddler off at nursery school and returns to find her child missing and no traces of the kid ever having existed. The story takes place over only 24 hours as Blanche tries to find her daughter and maintain/prove her sanity. A very engaging light read.
On a more intellectual level, it was interesting to me to see how the main character (a young single mother) was written. The book was published in 1957 and from wha More...
On a more intellectual level, it was interesting to me to see how the main character (a young single mother) was written. The book was published in 1957 and from wha More...
Apr 17, 2011
Anjelique
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Takes the horrific situation of a missing child, then ups the tension by casting doubt on the very existence of said child.
Dated but enjoyable.
Dated but enjoyable.
Jan 29, 2012
Ellen
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Well, from the 40's we move up to the 60's and this crazy book/film. I have to say this is one instance when the movie is better than the book. The story takes place over one very long day and night and I found it painful to read. A young woman who has just moved into a city where no one knows her goes to pick up her little daughter from day care but no one has seen her. The police try to help but there is no physical evidence of a child. This makes the woman act desperate and crazy which m
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May 27, 2009
Kaushalya
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Couldn't figure out who had done it until the very end!! Good read.
Nov 11, 2008
Chris
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After reading this I was mostly glad to be done. I wouldn't say it was bad, it was interesting and for a pulp I guess pretty good. But, I read this on the heels of Sophie's Choice, a book with such depth and acumen, that this book didn't have a chance. If you are about to get on an airplane and want a throw away book, this one is just fine.
Jan 29, 2012
Marie
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Although it took me nearly a year to finish the book, once I picked it up again I enjoyed it. There was the mystery of what really happened and the story of men patronizing women, specifically an attractive unwed mother.
Feb 16, 2008
Mindy
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The story just grabbed me up and hurled me into this poor mother's rising hysteria. Just HAD to read it to find out how it would all end! Excellent read.
Feb 02, 2008
Rachael
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I read Bunny Lake when I had jury duty two years ago. It was the only thing that kept me sane those 2 days. :/
Nov 25, 2007
kabukigal
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This is a 1950's thriller head-trip through the psyche of a mother (or is she?)
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