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Michigan Dreamer: November 2011
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011. I am traveling a lot these days which means that I have a lot of time to read on planes and in hotels, but not much time to write up my thoughts. So I am moving to a simpler format. By Don DeLillo is a post-modern exploration of American cultural underpinnings: What is around us, what drives us, how do we handle the sounds, scents and visuals that intrude into our space and. Most important, how do we handle death and our fear of it. Once beyond the airborne toxic event, Jack...
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Michigan Dreamer: February 2012
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Monday, February 13, 2012. Capital T Truth, David Foster Wallace. I came to read David Foster Wallace after his death - actually because of his death. My introduction to him was through the April 18,2011 New Yorker article. By Jonathan Franzen about DFW's suicide. They were great friends. The suicide broke Franzen's heart. I was moved by the article, and found a couple of short stories by DFW on the Internet which moved me further to read. Can you believe it? This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciti...
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Michigan Dreamer: August 2011
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011. The Crying of Lot 49. I have just finished reading The Crying of Lot 49. Lots of sex and booze in a mystery to be unraveled. This could have been a graphic novel. Into your heart it will leap. It starts when you're always afraid. Step out of line, the man comes and takes you away . Pynchon was not proud of this book and purportedly called it a "potboiler". Most reviewers recognize it as a great book. It has many of the same themes and is much more accessible then. Multi-layered&...
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Michigan Dreamer: December 2011
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Sunday, December 18, 2011. Inbetween Book: The Shadow of the Wind. Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind. Is described in the NYT Book Review as "Gabriel Garcia Matquez meets Umberto Eco's meets Jorge Luis Borges". That is high praise - those authors set pretty high water marks. But to my mind, The Shadow of the Wind,. It's an ambitious tale but Zafon makes it work. In the last sections he neatly ties up the loose ends, leaving the reader free to mull over the book's themes. There are a number of in...
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Michigan Dreamer: On The Road
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Sunday, May 27, 2012. I forgot how much I loved Jack Kerouac! What a great book. Is Such sweet poetry in his descriptions of people and places. The trip into Mexico (in the last part of the book) sings. And Ken Kesey based the character, Randall Patrick McMurphy on him. And I probably needed to forgive Kerouac his sins too. It's hard to watch him (as the narrator in. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Subscribe to Michigan Dreamer. Never Let Me Go.
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Michigan Dreamer: October 2011
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Getting a Tour of My Home Town in Middlesex. What a delight for me as a reader: A Pulitzer Prize winning book set in my hometown, Detroit. Middlesex. By Jeffrey Eugenides is a fabulous tour of the place I knew as a child and young adult. This tour comes along for the ride as part of a grand tale about finding and accepting one's identity. Some are calling this a Great American novel ala Huckleberry Finn. And watching the film Naked Lunch. I am now ready to pick up Beloved.
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Michigan Dreamer: 1984
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Sunday, April 8, 2012. Almost as frightening as my initial reading of it at age 17. It certainly came more alive for me this time around as I was reminded of Iran and in particular of Marina Nemat's description of life there in. Her experience of being watched, trying to have a lover and most of all her time in prison was similar in many ways to Winston's. That said,. Comes close to the sheer horror of living with Big Brother watching. Oh my. Next books: I'll try to finish two books I put aside:.
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Michigan Dreamer: Falconer
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Sunday, March 25, 2012. By John Cheever details the slimier aspects of prison life, moving between the over-the-top, sadistic behavior of prison guards to the boring (for me) details of how prisoners manage their sexual lives. The protagonist, Farragut, did not come alive for me and so I did not care about his outcome. Details in the surprise ending seemed contrived. All that said, the beauty of the prose kept me going. (* *). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget.
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Michigan Dreamer: A Dance to the Music of Time
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Sunday, March 25, 2012. A Dance to the Music of Time. I can't believe that I finished this series. 2500 pages! What started out as an immensely pleasurable experience got very, very old in the end when the prose - always at the edge of tediousness became awash with $10 words and 40-word sentences. But I must admit, I was addicted to this series, tedious passages and all and am glad to have read it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Subscribe to Michigan Dreamer. Pictu...
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