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Satantango by László Krasznahorkai

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A novel worth reading even after seeing the great Bela Tarr film first. I explain why here:

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Embers by Sándor Márai

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"No, the secret is that there is no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity."___From EMBERS

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Sky Saw by Blake Butler

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


I can't even honestly say the book was OK (two stars) as I really did not like it much after the first forty pages or so. There are no spoilers here in the following review, and really it is quite impossible to achieve with a work of this nature anyway. I tried hard to give this novel a good going over as it was my first venture into the work of Blake Butler, but it was just not my cup of tea. Here I explain in full why I feel this way:

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The Accidental Pallbearer by Frank Lentricchia

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Frank Lentricchia has style and it derives from his Utica, New York upbringing and his coursing Italian blood. The Accidental Pallbearer is no different from his previous fiction except for one thing. Instead of being a high-minded high-art affair connected with film, teaching, love, and traveling, this is a "hardboiled" detective novel of the first rank. The two key operatives here are "hardboiled" and "first rank". I explain myself more clearly and more personally here:

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The Tanners by Robert Walser

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I wrote a longer, more personal and detailed review you may read here, if interested: http://hub.me/aeMjf

For the naysayers in our midst, the esteemed readers of so much other fiction to be themselves thought of in the highest esteem here because of their thoughtful and intelligent reviews but nonetheless discounters of the writings of Robert Walser based on previous books they read such as The Selected Stories and Jakob von Gunten, please note that these two books were translated by a man person by the name of Middleton and in no way should the other works by Walser that others of us love such as The Assistant, The Robber, and The Tanners be tarnished because, truth be told, these beloved three gems all were translated by an enormously talented lady by the name of Susan Bernofsky. She is the brightest star in the galaxy of German translations. Enough cannot be said in regards to the talent of Susan Bernofsky. She makes everyone better, reader or writer, male or female, and never disappoints.

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