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Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal

A Sorrow beyond Dreams by Peter Handke

For Colored Girls... by Ntozake Shange

Madea by Euripides

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Beowulf by Trans. Heaney

Beowulf by Trans. Headley

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

June 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Point to Point Navigation – 4/5 This is a second and shorter memoir by Gore Vidal published a few years before he died. It wasn’t right before his death, but you get the impression that he is saying a last few things at least before he begins to wrap up his writing career. His career began when he was about 19 or so when he began writing what would become his first novel, Williwaw, a WWII short novel about a boat in the North Pacific […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Angela Carter, ann leckie, Ayn Rand, Euripides, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ntozake Shange, peter handke, samuel beckett, Trans. Headley, Trans. Heaney

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:333 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Angela Carter, ann leckie, Ayn Rand, Euripides, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ntozake Shange, peter handke, samuel beckett, Trans. Headley, Trans. Heaney ·
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Longs and Shorts

The Big Book of Reel Murders by Ed. Otto Penzler

My Head! My Head! by Robert Graves

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

The Twits by Roald Dahl

Heart by Jade Anouka

Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny

The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes

The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch

The Ophelia Network by Mur Lafferty

Deep Hole by Don Winslow

Legal Immigrant by Alan Cumming

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder

The Cube by Adam Rapp

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Pale Sister by Colm Toibin

Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

June 8, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Big Book of Reel Murders – Edited by Otto Penzler – 4/5 The concept of this collection is still mostly pulpy stories (though with some other older stories and more contemporary stories not really pulpy) that were made into films. It should really be called “Reel Crimes” as not every story involves a murder, but the concept mostly works. It ends up being a little frayed throughout as apparently it’s just much easier to get some rights to stories than others, so like the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Adam Rapp, Alan Cumming, Chester Himes, Colm Toibin, don winslow, Ed. Otto Penzler, Eudora Welty, Iris Murdoch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jade Anouka, Mur Lafferty, Roald Dahl, robert graves, roger zelazny, samuel beckett, Thornton WIlder

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:267 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Adam Rapp, Alan Cumming, Chester Himes, Colm Toibin, don winslow, Ed. Otto Penzler, Eudora Welty, Iris Murdoch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jade Anouka, Mur Lafferty, Roald Dahl, robert graves, roger zelazny, samuel beckett, Thornton WIlder ·
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I’d been demoted and was shoveling slide-back and minding my own business when they found Dwayne Mays’s body in a pile of gob.

Down Don't Bother Me by Jason Miller

Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House by Eric Hodgins

Growing Up by Russell Baker

Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett

High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous

October 12, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Down Don’t Bother Me – 3/5 Stars This is a short gritty Illinois coal country noir novel. I picked it up because I follow the author online but only know him through his relatively insightful and mostly very angry response to the garbage world we all live in. When I was able to grab a copy of his book I did. The novel takes place in southern Illinois in those kinds of rural spaces where there’s a lot of open land, little townlets, and in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Anonymous, becoming duchess goldblatt, down don't bother me, Eric Hodgins, growing up, Jason Miller, malone dies, mr blandings builds his dream house, Richard Hughes, Russell Baker, samuel beckett

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:549 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Anonymous, becoming duchess goldblatt, down don't bother me, Eric Hodgins, growing up, Jason Miller, malone dies, mr blandings builds his dream house, Richard Hughes, Russell Baker, samuel beckett ·
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It was conscious of luminous and infinite haze, as it were floating, godlike, alpha, omega, over a sea of vapor and looking down.

Mantissa by John Fowles

Death, Sleep and the Traveller by John Hawkes

Too Late by Stephen Dixon

Molloy by Samuel Beckett

March 31, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

To me, if you call someone post-modern as a writer I have two competing notions of this — minimalism, which generally excepts the limitations of representation and instead looks at cross-sections, slices, intersections, and impasse in stories and human relationship and language. I think of the plays of Beckett or various Don Delillo novels. The other thing I think about with postmodernism is maximalism, an attempt to tell everything about a thing and then often failing as well because whether we attempt to shown them […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: death sleep and the traveller, john fowles, John Hawkes, mantissa, Molloy, samuel beckett, Stephen Dixon, too late

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:169 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: death sleep and the traveller, john fowles, John Hawkes, mantissa, Molloy, samuel beckett, Stephen Dixon, too late ·
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Yup, still hate Beckett

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett

September 29, 2019 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

CBR11bingo: Back to School One day a few years ago, my husband came home and suggested we see Waiting for Godot, which was being performed by a local theater company. I said, “I have a better idea, let’s schedule a couple’s colonoscopy instead, because that would be equally as fun.” Needless to say, he hasn’t broached the subject of Samuel Beckett since. But as I pondered the CBR Back to School bingo square, I wondered whether I may have been unfair. I hadn’t read any […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #backtoschool, absurdism, cbr11bingo, hate reviews, KimMiE", Play, samuel beckett, theater of the absurd, tragicomedy

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #backtoschool, absurdism, cbr11bingo, hate reviews, KimMiE", Play, samuel beckett, theater of the absurd, tragicomedy ·
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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn’t enough for you.

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett

January 21, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a short collection of dramatic monologues by the Irish/French writer Samuel Beckett. So, I need to start off by stating that I couldn’t possibly rate this post because I am definitively ill-equipped to offer judgment of what I read here. I will discuss what I felt about it and the interesting aspects of the production (this is an audiobook) but otherwise, I will leave the criticism to those who know about these things. There are four pieces in this collection. In the first, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: krapp's last tape, samuel beckett

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: krapp's last tape, samuel beckett ·
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