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The six best novels of 2007

September 21, 2007

Looks like you’re new here. Get all the fun of 52 Novels as it happens and subscribe by e-mail or subscribe using your favorite RSS feed reader. Might as well. Don’t cost nothin.Mmmkay. That’s headline’s not entirely true. It should read, “The six best novels I read between January and June in 2007.”
But let’s face [...]

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One Book, One Denver… 2007

September 19, 2007

Yesterday, Denver’s mayor—Hizonner John Hickenlooper—announced this year’s “One Book, One Denver” edition: Nick Arvin’s ARTICLES OF WAR. It’s the first time in the program’s four years that a local writer’s work was chosen. Previously, Denver read Leif Enger’s “PEACE LIKE A RIVER,” Sandra Cisneros’s “CARAMELO,” and John Nichols’s “THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR.”
If you’re unfamiliar with [...]

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LISEY’S STORY, by Stephen King

September 18, 2007

35 I remember all the hype for this book when it dropped in hardcover last year: if I remember correctly, most, if not all, of it was through the roof. King even got interviewed by The Paris Review… a sure sign this “once-favorite target of critics, has been embraced by at least some in the [...]

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STONE CITY, by Mitchell Smith

August 30, 2007

34 Shhhhh. Be quiet.
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of my heart breaking.
I first caught wind of this book from Marcus Sakey over at the The Outfit. He had this to say about STONE CITY:

… the book is astonishingly good. Achingly good. Painfully, how-the-hell-does-he-do-that good.

I love Sakey’s debut novel… and his influences. So praise [...]

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THE DARK RIVER, by John Twelve Hawks

August 24, 2007

33 I really loved THE TRAVELER. I thought it out-neuromanced NEUROMANCER.
And because of that, I was eager to read THE DARK RIVER. Couldn’t wait.
So, finally, I did read it.
I was disappointed. I just didn’t think the story was that good. Too much exposition sometimes (kinda like Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace). The writing [...]

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My Five Most Important Books

August 20, 2007

Yesterday at The Outfit, Marcus Sakey takes a tip from Newsweek and posts his five most important books. It’s a great list, and it contains two books I considered putting on mine (see if you can guess which ones).
Heeding his call, here’s my stab:
My Five Most Important Books

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, by John Irving
This [...]

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