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33 years old. Lifelong New Jersey resident. Fan of mystery novels, classic literature, and non-fiction about movies, television, sports, and American history.

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Graveyard Surf

Night Shift by Stephen King

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CBR11Bingo: The Collection The stories in Night Shift, Stephen King’s first collection of short stories, read for the most part like spec scripts for The Twilight Zone. They’re high-concept stories with dynamite premises and most of them have that signature Twilight Zone ironic ending or twist. King is great at establishing a world filled with realistic characters even as the plots themselves are bizarre and occasionally ridiculous. The collection kicks off with “Jerusalem’s Lot”, set in the vampire-infested town of King’s Salem’s Lot more than a century prior to the novel. It’s epistolary format helps establish an eerie mood as […]

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10/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

CBR11Bingo: True Story

The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

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CBR11Bingo: True Story This is an oral history of September 11, 2001. It is fairly comprehensive, as historian Garrett M. Graff spoke to all the major players you would expect as well as to hundreds of people who got caught up in the tragic events of that day. His sources include New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Vice President Cheney, Condi Rice, Chief of Staff Andy Card, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, and Donald Rumsfeld. He also talks to dozens of firefighters and police officers, office workers who made it out of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, family […]

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10/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

The Ultimate Patsy

Libra by Don DeLillo

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CBR11Bingo – History Schmistory At one point in Don DeLillo’s imagined version of the Kennedy Assassination, ex-CIA agent Walter Everett, Jr. philosophizes on the art of fabricating a cover story. The key, he says, is to create a sense of unreality through conflicting information, nonsensical contradictions, inconsistencies and the like. It’s this unreality, this messiness, that feels more real in our crazy world. Truth is stranger than fiction after all, so the key to making a fiction seem like the truth is to make it strange. It’s clear that in attempting to weave a narrative out of the conspiracy theories […]

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10/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

The World’s Worst Writer’s Retreat

Misery by Stephen King

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CBR11Bingo – Cannonballer Says I haven’t read On Writing, Stephen King’s non-fiction book about his chosen profession, but I doubt I could learn more about being a writer from it than I did from Misery. At once an allegorical look at all that being a writer entails and a gripping story in its own right, Misery is a wonder. A perfectly constructed, unbearably suspenseful, have to make it to the end of this chapter before bed novel. Paul Sheldon, an author stand-in if there ever was one, is riding high upon the completion of his new novel when his car […]

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9/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

Something Rotten

The Criminal by Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson is a crime writer with a knack for peering into the blackness of the human soul and not flinching in describing it to the reader. He’s probably best known as the writer of The Grifters, which was turned into a movie starring John Cusack and Anjelica Huston. There the focus was on con artists, criminals who rely on their cunning and their wits to stay ahead of the law. On the surface, The Criminal couldn’t be more different: the title character is a fifteen year-old boy named Bob Talbert who is easily confused and not very bright. The […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:33 |

Crime, Boy I Don’t Know

The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald

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CBR11Bingo: I Love This (Not this book specifically, but post-war California noir in general.) For a while I thought The Galton Case might be the realization of my Ideal Novel. I suppose it terribly “male” of me, but there’s nothing I like reading about more than a tough-guy private detective dealing with a rich family full of dark secrets, driving around California and occasionally getting knocked out by street-wise gangsters. Raymond Chandler is the most well-known practitioner of the form, but for my money Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer series is every bit as good, with the added bonus that Macdonald […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

Riding the Rails

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

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CBR11Bingo – AWARD WINNER: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction AND the National Book Award This was not what I expected. Nearly everything I read or heard about this lauded novel focused on the unusual conceit at its heart, that the “Underground Railroad” we’re all familiar with from history was not a metaphorical railroad, but a real one, with locomotives and tracks and all the accouterments. Based on that I was expecting magical realism akin to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I was, at least, expecting a book about the railroad. But Whitehead’s novel curiously keeps this intriguing premise deep in […]

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9/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

This is a Stick-Up

Swag by Elmore Leonard

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Swag is classic Elmore Leonard. Criminals who think they’re smarter than they actually are, heists that are too complex for their own good, double-crosses motivated by greed and mistrust, and crisp pose packed with crackling dialogue. When used-car salesman Frank Ryan catches Ernest “Stick” Stickley trying to drive off the lot with a stolen car, he decides to see it as an opportunity. Refusing to identify Stick in court, Ryan approaches him with a business proposition. He wants the two of them to join up and commit armed robberies, hitting the liquor stores, groceries, and convenience stores of the Detroit […]

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8/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |


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