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Alex Colvin

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Humor and Comedy, Contemporary

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Mordecai Richler, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski ...more

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Intriguing graphic design but a wildly inconsistent collection of stories that were all over the map. Each story being inspired by a relic of the War was a neat idea, but the execution was very hit or miss. It’s very noble what this collection was tr ...more
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Making Connections: 6561. Unquestionably Monstrous by Alex Colvin	3	24	Sep 08, 2022 02:31PM

“The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

tags: canada-inspirational, canada-reputation-montreal, canadaintheworld, canadian-humor, canadian-literature, canadian-politics, canadians, mordecairichler

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