Junior Burke
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Buddha Was a Cowboy: A Novel di Junior Burke
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.Parami University is an alternative Christen university located in Wyoming where Arron Motherway, a Hollywood screenwriter is hired to run the Liberal Arts program after lecturing a course over the summer. Unbeknownst to him, he was hired to take the fall for some corrupt faculty members. If you read this a straight forward novel, you will be lost, but as a satire of our current cultural climate, you may enjoy it. He definitely hits the mark with the craziness we are currently experiencing.
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.Although a little bit uneven overall I really enjoyed reading this book. Portions of it made me laugh out loud and then read those sections to others. Burke captures some of the absurdity in the current cultural clone.
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.I did not enjoy this book. Although the premise was appealing, something about the writing style really did not work for me. The characters felt flat and the most interesting events of the novel were rushed through. I very nearly did not finish this book, but kind of forced myself to keep going hoping it would somehow improve. Unfortunately, it did not, and I found it a very unsatisfying read.
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.The Cold Last Swim is a strange and imaginative book. It creates an alternative history that imagines James Dean shot Ronald Reagan in an act of method-acting run amok. Was it accidental or impulsive or premeditated? There is a trial but James Dean died before the end…at least in the eyes of the world. In the epic “chickie run” from “Rebel Without a Cause” Dean is believed to have gone over the cliff with his car when his jacket catches on the car.
Seeing the opportunity in the confusion, Dean avoids prison through assuming alternate identities that bring him to New York City and Berlin in personae that connect with his past, to his songwriter friend Specs who must be a nod to Phil Spector and the “wall of sound” and his race-car friend Rudi. These are true friendships that have profound effects in Dean’s life, but also on the lives of his friends.
Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan continues his inexorable rise to power with the help of the political operators right out of C.R.E.E.P. There’s a lot of action and a fast, and quirky plot that will surprise you in its ability to come round full circle.
I liked The Cold Last Swim. It suits the James Dean of the novel and of history. There are ways the book reminds me of James Ellroy with the conspiratorial no-holds-barred rush of a plot. No one uses language like Ellroy, but there his kind of quirk running deeply through the story.
I received an ARC of The Cold Last Swim from the publisher through LibraryThing.
The Cold Last Swim at Gibson House Press
Junior Burke author site
https://tonstantweaderreviews.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/9781948721103/… (altro)
Seeing the opportunity in the confusion, Dean avoids prison through assuming alternate identities that bring him to New York City and Berlin in personae that connect with his past, to his songwriter friend Specs who must be a nod to Phil Spector and the “wall of sound” and his race-car friend Rudi. These are true friendships that have profound effects in Dean’s life, but also on the lives of his friends.
Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan continues his inexorable rise to power with the help of the political operators right out of C.R.E.E.P. There’s a lot of action and a fast, and quirky plot that will surprise you in its ability to come round full circle.
I liked The Cold Last Swim. It suits the James Dean of the novel and of history. There are ways the book reminds me of James Ellroy with the conspiratorial no-holds-barred rush of a plot. No one uses language like Ellroy, but there his kind of quirk running deeply through the story.
I received an ARC of The Cold Last Swim from the publisher through LibraryThing.
The Cold Last Swim at Gibson House Press
Junior Burke author site
https://tonstantweaderreviews.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/9781948721103/… (altro)
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