Another Stephen King novella, Stationary Bike has a great premise, but gets a little too nutty even for me… Richard Sifkitz’s doctor tells him that it’s time to lose some weight, weight that Sifkitz — a commercial artist — has been packing on since his wife died. Sifkitz buys a stationary bike, and instead of installing it in front of a TV, he puts it in his apartment’s basement, facing a blank wall (artists are weird, I guess). He paints the wall with a mural depicting a […]
A Wild Ride
I’d heard of William Goldman’s Marathon Man before picking up a copy, but I really had no idea what it was about — only that Dustin Hoffman starred in the movie adaption. I think I was picturing something along the lines of Stephen King’s Running Man — like some dude who can’t stop running to save his life. “I don’t know that you’ll understand this, but once upon a time, long ago, I was a scholar and a marathon man, but that fella’s gone now, dead I […]
“Questions arose. Like, what in the f*ck was going on here, basically.”
It seemed like a good point in the Cannonball to dip my toe back into the elite Infinity Pool of highbrow reading — you know, capital L Literature — and Pynchon seemed like as good of a candidate for Respected Contemporary Author as any of them. But then of course I end up reading the book of his where the protagonist is altered on one of the many favorite substances of the sixties for most of the book and it’s generally about crime and hippies […]
Hellequin’s Horde
This is my last J-B Adamsberg adventure for a while since the newest Temps glacieres (Ice Age) has yet to be translated into English. Sad. Anyway, this novel starts out with Adamsberg covering for a colleague in another arrondissment, asserting that a simple case of natural death (heart attack) is actually murder by bread. It is not long after the events in Kisilova and Adamsberg is still a little unnerved by that whole ordeal. Veyrenc has finally run out of time on his sabbatical and […]
Plog
“Adamsberg was not a man who went in for emotion: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows with their wings, never going in, because they know it will be difficult to get out. He had often found dead birds in the village houses back home, imprudent visitors who had ventured inside and never again found their way back to the open air. Adamsberg considered that when it came to love, humans were no wiser than birds.” Another in […]
Fun and creepy
This is one of those books that reveals something about 100 pages in that makes you want to flip back to the beginning in order to reread everything with that new information in mind. Which makes it a great read, but extremely hard to review without spoiling that fun for someone else. So bear with me! I picked up Magic (and Marathon Man, which I’ll be reviewing later this week) after listening to As You Wish, in which Cary Elwes mentions William Goldman’s other works. I’ve only ever read The Princess […]
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