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> Tag: Robert Jones

“Why follow me to higher ground? Lost as you swear I am Don’t throw away your basic needs Ambiance and vanity”

Great Jones Street by Don Delillo

Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtenay

The Divine Comedy by Dante

The Junkie Quatrain by Peter Clines

The Eye of the World by Robert Jones

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Gone to Earth by Mary Webb

Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny

The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens

December 6, 2021 by vel veeter 3 Comments

Great Jones Street – 3/5 Stars This is an early Don Delillo novel that is ostensibly about a rock musician who seems to be in his mid-to-late 30s, living in a hotel on Great Jones Street in New York City. I don’t know a ton about New York, but I did happen to see Great Jones Street this summer, and these days, it’s a relatively bland and corporatized street in lower Manhattan. In the novel of the novel, it’s a little more sinister feeling, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bryce Courtenay, Chinua Achebe, Dante, Don DeLillo, Mary Webb, Peter Clines, Peter Cozzens, Robert Jones, roger zelazny

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:504 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bryce Courtenay, Chinua Achebe, Dante, Don DeLillo, Mary Webb, Peter Clines, Peter Cozzens, Robert Jones, roger zelazny ·
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My love for the beautiful cover did not translate to love, or even like, of the book.

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

June 23, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

I AM NOT ALLOWED TO GET LIT-FIC FROM BOOK OF THE MONTH ANYMORE*. I am completely unable to judge this book on it own merits because I was so unenthused while reading it, and the style really put me off. People are absolutely shitting themselves over this one, and it sounded so interesting to me, I’m upset I didn’t get anything out of it. *Except, this one time they had The Vanishing Half? And I loved that book. Maybe I will just make my rule […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: book of the month, historical fiction, Jr., LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary, literary fiction, Robert Jones, Robert Jones, Jr., the prophets

narfna's CBR13 Review No:68 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: book of the month, historical fiction, Jr., LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary, literary fiction, Robert Jones, Robert Jones, Jr., the prophets ·
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