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Under the Glacier
Author: Halldór LaxnessISBN: 1-4000-3441-8 For the life of me I can’t remember what led me to it. I’m sure it started out innocently enough…a title sounded interesting…someone recommended a book…I can’t be entirely sure. But, two years later I found myself at cocktail party, babbling endlessly, in a marginally-coherent fashion, about Scandinavian literature. I’m well aware that enjoying Scandinavian fiction is the type of idiosyncrasy you would expect from a pretentious asshole....
(No rating) 12-30-2006 Views: 2213

Death of a Writer
Author: Michael Collins ISBN-13: 978-I-5969I-229-8 There’s no secret in the world of literature that there’s an antagonism between readers who favor genre literature and those who prefer literary fiction. The literary sophisticates, quite fairly, scoff at the intellectual emptiness of a great deal of genre fiction while the genre lot curses the literary camp for being the pretensions pricks we tend to be. It’s rare to find something that works for both groups. Although it may be too literary...
(No rating) 12-30-2006 Views: 7065

Small Town Punk
Author: John Shepard|ISBN: 0977197255 It was 1984 when my sister came home with a safety pin in her lip and a newly dyed, jet-black, mullet spiked high on her head. She was wearing a black leather jacket and swore me to secrecy about the lip piercing so our mother wouldn’t find out. Although I was only in elementary school at the time I thought it was the coolest goddamn thing I’d ever seen. Many of us remember the 1980s by the horrifying tide of conservatism that swept across the country....
(No rating) 12-30-2006 Views: 5502

The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint
Author: Tommy ChongISBN 13:978-1-4169-1554-6 We read memoirs to get an intimate and insightful look into the lives of people we find fascinating. We read them to get a glimpse into other people’s minds. Tommy Chong (of the legendary comedy pair Cheech and Chong) allows us inside his head with his first book attempt, The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint. In it, Chong relives his highly publicized arrest and subsequent imprisonment on federal drug paraphernalia charges. Unfortunately...
(No rating) 12-30-2006 Views: 5302

A Year with the Hoopers by James Hoby
Author James HobyHesitation PressISBN: 0-9729804-2-3There is, in our culture, a voyeuristic tendency that somehow compels us to constantly observe the lives of others. This is why people are always tying to spy on their neighbors. It is also why reality television is so successful and the country has an obsession with pop icons and celebrities.James Hoby’s second book, A Year with the Hoopers, parodies this phenomenon by providing us with a candid and unwitting glimpse into the lives of a...
(No rating) 4-4-2007 Views: 7066

The Outlander
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Gil AdamsonPublisher: House of Anansi PressASIN: B000RW4C1V
(No rating) 7-18-2007 Views: 2266

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