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Monthly Archives: October 2010
The Dice Man
Imagine a world where instead of hemming and hawing about your awful job, you simply say “If I roll a one or a two, I stay at my job. Three or four, I quit. Five or six, I quit AND tell my boss what a ridiculous ass he is.” Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Satire, unBucket Books
Tagged Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Luke Rhinehart, Satire, The Dice Man
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In the Woods
The tone is eerily set when on one such night, three children disappear into the woods to play and don’t return. The police are dispatched, and find no traces whatsoever of two of the children. The third, a terrified little boy with his fingernails embedded in the tree he is plastered against, is catatonic and his shoes are filled with blood. Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, NYT Bestsellers, unBucket Books
Tagged Book Reviews, Books, Crime, Dublin murder series, Fiction, In the Woods, Murder Mystery, NYT Bestsellers, Tana French
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Like Water for Chocolate (Como Agua para Chocolat)
On one evening after a particularly sumptuous meal infused with Tita’s desire for Pedro, Tita’s eldest sister Gertrudis becomes overcome with an unquenchable lust and runs away with a Mexican Revolutionary, furiously making love with him on horseback as they ride away. Mama Elena is furious, but Tita begins to realize that if Gertrudis can defy Mama Elena, perhaps she can too. Continue reading
Portnoy’s Complaint
Portnoy is a chronic masturbator and a sexual deviant with an oppressive mother, a chronically constipated father, and a crippling superiority complex. The book is less a story than an (often very funny) monologue by its titular character, who seems to blame many of his problems on his Judaism, and by default, the family who raised him that way. Continue reading
Posted in 1,001 Books to Read Before You Die, Fiction
Tagged Banned Books, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Monologue, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
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Outlander
Claire Randall is a WW2 nurse on vacation in Scotland with her historian husband, Frank. Separated during the war, they are enjoying a second honeymoon while Frank looks into his Scottish family history. Claire is increasingly disinterested in her husband’s obsession with the past, and ends up making friends with a local who knows all of the native plants of the region. Interested in botany, Claire ventures with the old man to a nearby stonehenge-esque site where rumored pagan rituals are conducted… Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, unBucket Books
Tagged Book Reviews, Books, Diana Gabaldon, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Outlander
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