Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Fay – Larry Brown (2000) and Whereabouts – Jhumpa Lahiri (2021)

Fay by Larry Brown

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Fay – 4/5 Stars I read a lot of Larry Brown in college, but I don’t think I was ever assigned this one. It came out right as I was beginning, so I think it was still marinating in the minds of my professors. Later of his novels were more or less rejected as worthy, especially the last two. This novel clearly takes some things that work in his other novels and expands on them. There’s also some drawing back to his short fiction as […]

Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry (1974)

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

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I was watching or reading something the other day and OJ was called “the most famous murderer” of all time. And maybe that’s true today, but Vincent Bugliosi makes the compelling case in the updated epilogue from 1999 for this book that Charles Manson and Jack the Ripper are much more clear candidates for that. This is also him writing after the sensationalist decades of serial killers with Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz, and a few others. I am not sure I agree that […]

All We Need of Hell – Harry Crews (1988)

All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews

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If you told me you hated Harry Crews and everything he wrote, I wouldn’t argue with you. But if you ever make Florida Man jokes, and maybe need to understand a little more, well, he’d be a good source. Harry Crews writes about toxic masculinity, and especially in the cases where said masculinities are not explored within the minds and hearts of its adherents. Duff Deeter is a small town lawyer in Florida, cheating on his wife, who is cheating on him with his legal […]

Stolen Thoughts – Tim Tigner (2020)

Stolen Thoughts by Tim Tigner

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If you told me this book and this author were bots and written by bots, I would completely believe you. I would also worry about AIs developing to the point where they could write convincingly entertaining single-conceit technothrillers. But I also wouldn’t worry too much. That said, Tim Tigner is probably working right now on a technothriller about bots writing novels and replacing the need for writers. This book takes the question, what if we could read minds (but because of technology) and runs with […]

Dragons of Dwarven Depths – Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (2006)

Dragons of Dwarven Depths by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

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There’s some purposeful gaps in the storytelling of the Dragonlance Chronicles. Specifically, we don’t get the story of saving the magical hammer from the depths of Torbarden, we don’t know much about Kitiara until we do, and Raistlain disappears for a long while. This series, written in the early 2000s goes back and fills in those gaps, which mixed results. The story for this first volume involves the companions looking for the magical hammer in the depths of the Dwarven realm. We know they succeed […]

Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason – Helen Fielding (2001)

Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

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The second entry in the Bridget Jones books and it takes what’s ridiculous and goofy about the first one and really adds in some more. What I do really about this book is similar to something I really like about Nick Hornby’s “High Fidelity” implied by the movie “The Graduate” which is that romantic comedies are great and all, but what happens after? Well, “High Fidelity” has another 100 pages or so, and this book is the sequel to the romantic comedy and is about […]



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