I'm a fan of Douglas Coupland. His Girlfriend in a Coma (besides being the title of one of my favorite Smiths songs) was such a wonderful look at the self-importance of teenagers (well, that's how I take it now, a long way past the new millennium the book foretold), and I read most of his other books in short succession after Girlfriend.
I've had this book sitting on my desk for a month now, and I keep meaning to write a review of it. The problem is, it's an awfully hard book to review. This satire of everything stars Misha Vainberg, son of the 1,238th richest man in Russia. Misha's lone goal in life is to return to the US, where he spent his college and young adult years, and where he has a girlfriend of sorts. Alas, he cannot return -- his father, a ganster, has killed an American, and the U.S. Embassy won't let him get a visa.
Admittedly, when I first picked up this book, the lines from the Joan Osborne song “One of Us," a song that I have since been able to banish back to the portion of my cerebral cortex still obsessed with 1995. In God Is Dead, the title character takes the form of a Dinka woman in Darfur who, after meeting with Colin Powell (portrayed as a Samuel L.
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When I read Sandra Brown’s latest thriller, one question immediately popped into my head: how on earth has Griff Burkett, a star quarterback who threw a playoff game for the Dallas Cowboys, survived his five year stint in prison?
Manhattan GMAT supposedly runs the best GMAT courses out there, and these books look a lot simpler to weed through than the massive texts that you normally find in a bookstore. I've only just started studying -- does someone have an opinion about the best way to study for the GMAT?
Choose elements of three other books or authors this book reminds you of:
Gabriel Garcia Marques, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce
The Conversation in the Cathedral is a magical book. Based in 1950s Peru during the Odria dictatorship, it is the story of two long-lost associates (friends may be a bit strong of a word) who, over a series of beers, learn about the torments in each other's lives.
