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The Wanting Seed

In The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess, overpopulation is suppressed through the promotion of homosexuality and a one child per family policy. Here it is “Sapiens to [...]

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Chocky

I read The Day of the Triffids over the holidays this year, and I was greatly impressed by John Wyndham’s mixture of the sensible and [...]

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First Love, Last Rites

With First Love, Last Rites, Ian McEwan’s first published work, the author presents himself as an unbelievably gifted writer from the get-go. This collection of eight short [...]

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An Affair with the Moon

I’ve read five of David Gilmour‘s eight novels, and he tends to write a lot of the same; So much so that, when reading his work, [...]

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The Comfort of Strangers

At one hundred pages, The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan is a slender read but never a slight one. Its prose is delicate, as [...]

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MWF Seeking BFF

When author Rachel Bertsche moved to Chicago from New York, she left her two best friends behind. In her new hometown, she had her supportive [...]

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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Verdict:  David Foster Wallace is sometimes difficult to read; He thinks (well, knows) he’s not stupid, and this comes across aggressively in his writing. Simply, his prose [...]