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Apr 05, 2020
Elizabeth (Alaska)
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My reactions to this are definitely mixed. I love the way Chabon writes. The sentence structure isn't difficult in the way modernism is, yet not simple in the way twenty-first century writing is often presented. The vocabulary drifts along in an easy way and then wham! he slips in a word I should look up in the dictionary. I like this - don't spoon feed me! His dialogue is real, not clunky, and there is just enough of it.
The characterization of his narrator, Grady Tripp, is adequate. It isn't st ...more
The characterization of his narrator, Grady Tripp, is adequate. It isn't st ...more
I didn't find this as funny as I think I was supposed to, but there's genius in the way he brings things to life.
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I feel very in-the-middle on this one. There were things about it I really enjoyed -- the deeply flawed and well-rounded main characters, the meticulously developed plot where no small moment is there without a purpose, even if that purpose is revealed much later. It has a zaniness to it that is almost never too zany and sometimes made me laugh out loud.
Chabon is very talented, but I was disappointed in the female characters -- for a while I wanted more development of Sara, Hannah, Emily and the ...more
Chabon is very talented, but I was disappointed in the female characters -- for a while I wanted more development of Sara, Hannah, Emily and the ...more
May 12, 2011
Tony Opsata
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Heather (DeathByBook)
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Dec 28, 2012
Sam
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Oct 13, 2013
Dana Arbelaez
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Ellen
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