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"Interesting how the narrative slips forward through historical benchmarks. Never seen that precise approach to marking time in a novel." — Jun 14, 2013 12:39pm
"Interesting how the narrative slips forward through historical benchmarks. Never seen that precise approach to marking time in a novel." — Jun 14, 2013 12:39pm
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"Loved the Keith Hernandez and Brian Downing chapters." — Mar 12, 2013 04:06pm
"Loved the Keith Hernandez and Brian Downing chapters." — Mar 12, 2013 04:06pm
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Patrick Brown
is on page 100 of 304 of You Are One of Them: Interesting how the narrative slips forward through historical benchmarks. Never seen that precise approach to marking time in a novel.
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Some of the best writing I've ever encountered. Edward St. Aubyn is a master. These short autobiographical novels are bitterly funny, blisteringly insightful about class and psychology, and harrowing in their description of addiction, sadism, and...
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Patrick Brown
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| Is this really the end of the Patrick Melrose novels? It feels like they could keep going. Anyway, I feel like an old friend has moved away forever. I'll write a longer review on the other book, when I have some time to gather my thoughts. | |
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Alexa's review of Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis:
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It's weird that a book that comprehensively illustrates just how completely screwed this city is still somehow also makes you agree that Detroit City is, in a way at least, the place to be.
My family on both sides is from Ann Arbor, and they all ca... " Read more of this review » |
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Really good, but minus one star for being so depressing. I could barely stand to read it at times. But the writing is superb, without being ostentatious in any way. At least he had his affair.
update June 5 2013 - conversation on FB re this review... " Read more of this review » |
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Patrick Brown
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Patrick Brown
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
by Mark Binelli
read in May, 2013
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| This is the kind of book that I often lose interest in, and sometimes walk away from wishing it were a magazine article instead. But that didn't happen here, and it's a credit to Binelli's talents as a storyteller. This is a terrific portrait of a ci...more | |
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― John Edward Williams
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― Margaret Atwood
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― Bill Russell
“It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right. ”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Some Hope: A Trilogy
― Edward St. Aubyn, Some Hope: A Trilogy
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― G.K. Chesterton
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