Posts Tagged ‘ 2 Sentence Book Reviews ’

2 Sentence Review: Sons & Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

August 11, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Sons & Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Because the title isn’t conspicuous enough. One man and three women – not as fascinating as you’d think.
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2 Sentence Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin

April 16, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Haunting, devastating, gut-wrenching story that runs at you with its arms outstretched and then viciously stabs you in the back with a corkscrew.  This book takes the genre of family drama character studies and turns a scenario you’ve only heard about on the news into a relate-able punch in the stomach that makes you think...
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2 Sentence Review: First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan

April 14, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan

Dark and disturbing. In First Love, Last Rites, Ian McEwan makes sex and violence look intriguing.
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2 Sentence Review: The Falklands Regime

April 13, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: The Falklands Regime

What’s more unreadable than the cover of conservationist Mike Bingham’s story about saving the penguins of the Falkland Islands from commercial fishing industries, backed by the local corrupt government?  The descriptive, highly graphic sexual encounters he narrates throughout the first half, in which penguins are barely mentioned at all.
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2 Sentence Review: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

March 31, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

Probably the best novel ever written about Ethiopia and the overthrow of Haille Sallasie (not faint praise considering that the very talented Abraham Verghase also recently tackled this subject). Each character is interesting, fully formed and brings a different perspective to the historical events. Buy Beneath the Lion’s Gaze on Amazon or download the...
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2 Sentence Reviews: Buffalo Soldiers

March 26, 2010
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2 Sentence Reviews: Buffalo Soldiers

You don’t often see a book written in the second person outside of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series, which most people have outgrown by the time they’re 20 13, but this one flawlessly drops you into heroin-dealing hot spots that are going to feel a little prickly.  O’Connor grabs you by the back of...
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2 Sentence Review: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

March 24, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

A must read about one New Orleans family’s struggles before, during and after Katrina. One of those rare instances in which an author’s narrative and not his or her polemics allows the reader to feel deeply about the effects on individuals of injustice, hope and religion. Buy Zeitoun on Amazon or download audiobook from...
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2 Sentence Review: Spaceman Blues

March 22, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Spaceman Blues

Spaceman Blues by Brian Francis Slattery With an orgy of adjectives and one billion different characters, Slattery’s love/superhero/survivalist novel about a man searching for his lost lover in a colorfully futuristic New York will set your hair on fire with the sheer volume of verbiage.  Not often does an author fail to repeat themselves...
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2 Sentence Review: Blankets by Craig Thompson

March 19, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Blankets by Craig Thompson

Craig Thompson’s Blankets depicts the wonderful confusion of falling in love for the first time.  Awkward and romantic, his writing and artwork both enchant.
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2 Sentence Review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran-Foer

March 18, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran-Foer

After Oskar Schell walked me around New York City, I closed my copy of Jonathan Safran-Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and wrote this note on the inside cover, “a must read.” Idiosyncratic characters, multiple perspectives, drawings, colored mark-up, quirky dialogue, an honest reaction to a catastrophic event (9/11), what more could you want...
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