Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

All you’re getting from me this year is a half Cannonball, so it may as well be for a Magary book.

Point B by Drew Magary

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I really want to review this book but have struggled to write anything lately. I’m such a fan of Drew and want to throw my support his way, but I just can’t make the words come out. I’m clearly not going to reach my cannonball goal this year for the first time ever. New goal: Half Cannonball! I’ve been a big fan of Drew’s for a while. I loved The Hike, I liked The Postmortal, his annual Willams Sonoma takedown is always good for a […]

Death is the only thing keeping us in line.

The Postmortal by Drew Magary

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I read Drew Magary’s The Hike a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised by how detailed, rich, and more than anything how funny it was. It felt very tacked together for the most of the first half or so, like he was making it up as he went along, but toward the end it felt more and more structured.    But with this novel, I was worried that because the concept was so conceit driven, ala a Twilight Zone episode or something like that […]

All that’s left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

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There’s a lot to admire in Drew Magary’s debut novel, The Postmortal. The plot is fascinating: what if, this year, scientists could discover the cure for aging? What if you could get a series of shots that would guarantee that you would never age a day — and would live for as long as you wanted, unless you died from a disease or an accident or an act of violence? Would you do it? If you did, what would it change about the way you […]



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