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The Dog of the South by Charles Portis

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


One of the funniest books I've ever read. Did you hear me??? EVER!!!!!



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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I really didn't like it a first, it got under my skin often, and for good reason, it's dirrrty. But... the prose. My god the prose! The prose is in a world all it's own. Those pretty pretty complex words that confuse and entice and never let up. Never, not once. Nabokov can write. Lolita is two parts highbrow literature, too one part lurid pulp trash. Or is it the other way around?? It gracefully dances back and forth between a subtle but savage satire on high and low art, American vs European attitudes, the travel industry... and least we forget at it's creepy core, Humbert Humbert's story (in his own words) about his undying love/conquest of nymphet Lolita.



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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The Sisters Brothers expertly fuses the bleak and violent world of Cormac McCarthy with Jim Jarmusch's playfully offbeat and hilarious Dead Man. It makes you laugh, just as much as it breaks your heart. And even still, it is like nothing I've ever read before.


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Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


A masterpiece. That word almost doesn't seem big enough to encapsulate the voices of Jack and Billy, and the believability that this book conveys in nearly ever single sentence. Carpenter's narrative is so engaging that at times I didn't feel like I was even reading a book, but rather sitting across a campfire listening to real men (and boys) talk and recount a time in America that can only be lived by a selective few. The poor yes, but also the hard knock hustlers who desire money the same way others search for love. Hard Rain Falling is gritty and rugged, but also has tremendous beauty and tenderness, and there were things that happened along the way that I could not of foreseen. I loved it like crazy even when it made me cry.



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