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Too Many Jonathans, or Too Much Jonathan

Purity by Jonathan Franzen

July 3, 2024 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Purity ‘Pip’ Tyler is a girl like so many others. It’s 2015, the market has only just begun to convalesce, and she is stuck in a dead-end job with crippling student debt. She is terrible at interpersonal relationships, has managed to alienate most of her friends: she feels like – and for all accounts is – a failure. Her needy mother has never told her who her father is. But then Pip meets Andreas Wolf, Man Who Is Totally Not Julian Assange, and he offers […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: awful people, jonathan franzen, please make it stop, purity

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: awful people, jonathan franzen, please make it stop, purity ·
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Garbage people behave like garbage

December 2, 2017 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

At an Australian suburban barbecue, someone has brought along a child of the type that makes you sure you never want children – free to destroy things and hit people as he sees fit, with his parents clucking affectionately over his every action. Until his umpteenth assault of the day when an adult, who is not his parent, slaps him and all hell breaks loose. Taking this incident as its jump-off point, The Slap then looks at the lives of those attending the barbecue and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: awful people, Christos tsiolkas, Fiction, hateful children, homophobic, racist

TheShitWizard's CBR9 Review No:60 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: awful people, Christos tsiolkas, Fiction, hateful children, homophobic, racist ·
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