Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The New Negro

The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart

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It’s of course hard to figure out how to review a 900 page biography of a seminal literary and academic figure without thinking about taking on the subject with an academic sensibility. In all fairness, this biography does in fact both require and deserve a 5000 word review, and in a different life, perhaps one similar to Alain Locke’s I might do that. It’s been a long time since I have written an academic book review, and I don’t think I will make it today. […]

And I ride, and I ride

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

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If you were interested in the question about whether or not Cormac McCarthy would ever publish another novel, you were sometimes treated to lamentations about how he was supposedly working on a grand, epic novel about incest called The Passenger. And then about six months ago his agent released a statement that he was indeed going to release not one, but two novels that circulate around the same story about a brother and sister.  And here it is. It’s not epic it turns out, even […]

Zero History

Zero History by William Gibson

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This is the third and final “Blue Ant” novel, which circulates around a few recurring characters like a musician turned brand specialist and a Dutch advertising entrepreneur. In this book, we focus on the world of wildcat clothing design, specifically underground denim design. A mysterious denim designer has been doing guerilla product drops in order to avoid the world of fashion and our business exec Hubertus Bigend puts Hollis (our musician) and a another older character Milgrim on the task of finding the designer. Milgrim […]

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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Signed, Picpus by Georges Simenon

Vernon Downs by Jamie Clarke

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana

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A Moveable Feast  – 4/5 This is kind of a memoir by Hemingway, one that he was working on before he died. It’s not complete, but according to the editorial notes by one of his sons and grandsons, it’s close. This edition undoes some of the more confusing and intrusive decisions from the original publication in the 70s when Mary Hemingway was presiding over the book, which includes her basically writing one of the chapters herself. But the material cut from that edition are presented […]

The Fall of Hyperion

The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

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The second book in the Hyperion Cantos, and the direct sequel to the book Hyperion. From what I can gather the next two books are more spin-offs and far sequels, so my plan is to wait on those a little. We begin in the fallout of the first book, which is mostly told in storytelling and flashback. Hyperion is a mystical planet with a godlike creature on it that if captured, beaten in battle, or wooed can grant a wish. In the first book, several […]

Joe Kurtz and Liebestod

Hardcase by Dan Simmons

Hard Freeze by Dan Simmons

Hard as Nails by Dan Simmons

Lovedeath by Dan Simmons

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Hardcase There’s a tell early in this novel about what exactly we’re dealing with here. It’s neo noir book written by Dan Simmons, who is mostly known for science fiction and horror, but who has dabbled in some other genres. The tell is that a character mentions loving the Richard Stark “Parker” books, but hates the prissy Donald Westlake books. Donald Westlake and Richard Stark are the same person (Donald Westlake), and the Westlake books tend to be light-hearted and funny, while the Stark books […]



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