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Am I a Dunce?

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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I caught a little bit of the Great American Read from PBS which led me to their website.  I reserved several books at the library from the list to try and expand my reading.  Well the first one that came available from the list was a DNF (One Hundred Years of Solitude) and I am kind of torn on this one.  I snickered out loud all through this book but I cannot say I enjoyed it and I cannot reconcile in my brain not enjoying a book I found funny. The book centers around Ignatius Reilly who is a college graduate […]

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3/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

Espionage: First as Farce, Then As Tragedy

The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carré

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I have yet to read Graham Greene’s famous spy satire Our Man in Havana, but I’m familiar with the premise and am well aware that John Le Carré is aping it here. He’s having a blast splattering colored paint on the immaculately white walls of British imperialism. Until he remembers that these characters have stories, hearts and lives too. That’s what makes The Tailor of Panama so fascinating. Transparently a satire of western intelligence work, Le Carré also paints vivid portraits of characters whose lives are impacted by their failed pursuits at advancement in western culture. There’s Harry Pendel, the half-Scottish half-Jewish secretly […]

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1/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

I would like a copy of the ‘Buggre Alle This’ Bible.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

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This is one of those books that are good when you first read them, but get better as you get older. A lot of satire is probably like that, especially comic satire. I thought this book was funny in 2009, but now parts of it made me laugh so hard I was crying. Plus, I did the audio this time, and it made it even better. Martin Jarvis has a nice sense of comic timing, and his voice characterization is great, particularly for Crowley and Aziraphale. (The scene where they are drunk and discussing the universe was so good out loud!) He […]

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1/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

The Truth (Discworld, #25) by Terry Pratchett

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The press comes to Ankh-Morpork. Chaos, of course, ensues. William de Worde, a ne’er do well noble who is ashamed of his noble heritage, has until now made his living by painstakingly collecting news and sending off a sort of newsletter to foreign peoples of import who are willing to pay him for it. Then some dwarfs roll into Ankh-Morpork with something called a printing press, and suddenly, what if they printed a bunch of them and sold them for like, fifty cents? And maybe hired some people to sell them? And maybe pay some people to tell them things […]

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11/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:151 |

What can I say about Between the Bridge and the River that has not been said before?

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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And with a close of this book I made the last Bingo book before the deadline! #cbr10bingo is now complete! What can I say about Between the Bridge and the River that has not been said before? I purposely did not read anything about this book before reading it. Sadly, now I wish I had found this book before the book club discussion. I would have a few things to say. Therefore, I am just going to give my impression of the book (as we probably mostly know it by now). This was one of the most indulgent, pieces of sh*t […]

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11/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:439 |

2nd Bingo!

Good Omens: The Nice & Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

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In preparation for the upcoming new Amazon series, I decided to reread “Good Omens.” It’s probably been about a decade since I picked this up the first time, and while there were many parts that I thoroughly re-enjoyed, there were other parts that let me down. And not because it’s bad, but just because we’re getting farther and farther away from many of the contemporary nuances and details that were hilarious in the 2000s. Sadly, as time marches on, much of the ironic nuance in the jokes and satire don’t make sense simply because we’re missing the contemporary background. Published […]

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11/15/2018 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

“Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It’s lying, only for a better class of people.”

The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24) by Terry Pratchett

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 “It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren’t the people the people who made up the phrase ‘people are people everywhere’ had traditionally thought of as people.” I keep going back and forth over whether this should get the fifth star, and that back and forth is what’s keeping it at four (for now), but this is my favorite of these books since Hogfather. I very well may change my mind at any time and increase the rating. It didn’t *quite* have the emotional oomph I like from these books in order […]

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10/23/2018 's CBR10 Review No:127 |

Didn’t live up to this Janeite’s expectations.

Austenland (Austenland, #1) by Shannon Hale

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This was such a mixed bag of a reading experience. Honestly, though, I figured it might be. I’ve read a couple of Shannon Hale’s adult novels before this, and neither of them worked for me. And the Goodreads average rating for this book is not great. But I was still hoping! Especially considering the premise. It wasn’t one of those ‘meh’ reads, either. One second I would be actively hating what was going on, irritated with the main character, the next, something adorable would happen and I would be happy again. I have three main complaints: 1) The main character, 2) the […]

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10/10/2018 's CBR10 Review No:123 |


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