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The Copenhagen Trilogy

Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen

Youth by Tove Ditlevsen

Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

April 25, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Whenever I read a memoir that deals with childhood at all, I find it impossible to not think about Tolstoy talking about families. I never quite know if I buy it or not, or if it just works for Anna Karenina, the novel, not the woman. But too much of contemporary memoir is based in the idea that someone has a very specific story to tell, based on a kind of trick or conceit that has fueled their memoir. While I do sometimes want inside […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Tove Ditlevsen

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:183 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Tove Ditlevsen ·
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Rising Sun

Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

April 24, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

There is a place way down in Los Angeles they call the Nakamota Tower! And it been the ruin of one woman, and now I can’t think of a rhyme.   Anyway, Michael Crichton is a moralizing asshole a lot of the time. It would be one thing if the novels would just speak for themselves. They’re incredibly one note already, but he often ends them with a chiding epilogue that tsks tsks us into taking a problem he sees seriously. In this novel it’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Michael Crichton

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:180 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Michael Crichton ·
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I will Never Do Again (Again x2)

A Supposedly Fun Thing I will Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

April 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The essays in this collection tend to be long, as there’s not nearly as many here as in Consider the Lobster, especially given that this book is longer. But they spend more time. There’s two very good tennis essays, one a memoir essay of playing while a tornado is brewing. There’s a very long discussion of television and postmodern fiction, in which Wallace admits that the ways in which television seems to absorb culture and play around with it makes the job of writing metafiction […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: David Foster Wallace

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:179 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: David Foster Wallace ·
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Our Gang

Our Gang by Philip Roth

April 21, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I have had some very strong feelings at various times in the last 20 years or so, and while I do love political satire, I have to admit, there’s some truly terrible and bizarre political satire out there. Sometimes you get something wonderful like Veep, or you get something that maybe begins as satire or something like and grows into something more substantial like All the King’s Men and Billy Brammer’s The Gay Place. But other times you get something like Ian McEwan’s deeply embarrassing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: philip roth

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:178 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: philip roth ·
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The Collected Stories of Philip K Dick – Volume 1

Volume 1: The King of the Elves by Philip K Dick

April 21, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I have an affection for even the goofiest of the old science fiction stories. That doesn’t mean they’re always good if I have an affection for them, and calling them goofy also doesn’t mean they’re bad. In this first volume of the collected stories of Philip K Dick, we have a selection of many of his early stories, including a few that are often presented together as “Early Stories” like “The Gun”, “The Defenders”, and “The Skull”, the last of which is great. Other stories […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Philip K. Dick

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:177 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Philip K. Dick ·
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Disclosure

Disclosure by Michael Crichton

April 21, 2022 by vel veeter 1 Comment

Have you seen the movie Disclosure? I watched it when I was a teenager. I would be lying if I told you I watched it for almost any reason than I really hoped there would be nudity. I was 13. I liked Michael Crichton and loved Jurassic Park, and still think the book is miles better than the movie, as fun as the movie is. I also recorded HBO presenting Rising Sun at some point, a book I plan to read soon, and well, guess […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Michael Crichton

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:176 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Michael Crichton ·
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