Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

That’s a lotta corpses, bro

A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

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I liked the other Jonathan Ames books I’ve read, and learned ten seconds ago that he’s the creator of Bored to Death, which, for anyone who doesn’t know, is a show on HBO Max (which I haven’t seen, but which multiple people have told me I’d like). Anyway. A guy named Happy Doll – for real, his parents named him that…seriously? a little much right off the bat – is an ex-cop who’s now a fairly unsuccessful, i.e., not busy,  private detective. A friend comes […]

He was aware that he was not completely sane, so he kept himself in rigid check, playing both jailer and prisoner.

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Jonathan Ames……and misses! BOOM! WRAP IT UP! No but really I am trying to figure out why I didn’t like this novella. I think it plays at something and it can’t figure if it’s taking it seriously (and coming across severely unauthentic) or taking it with a kind of irony (and being boringly serious). So regardless what this comes across as an underdeveloped trope driven crime story that plays upon themes of revenge and trauma but does nothing with that that is remotely novel or […]



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