Reading this novel reminded me a good deal of reading Processed Cheese. America Fantastica is more subtle, and the points it's making are ... more varied, I think--not just privilege and wealth and inequality (though that) but also identity and the lies people tell each other and themselves. It's either kaleidoscopic or disjointed, I'm not sure I know which, and I'm not sure the going is particularly worth the ride, though there are some passages that made me laugh out loud.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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