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Herta Müller, The Land Of Green Plums, :star5:

Müller's is the kind of poetic prose where you can't expect to make rational sense of every single sentence, but the whole is at once terrifying and captivating. One of the more deserving Nobel winners in recent years.
 
Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe :star5:

John Scalzi, Redshirts :star4: (which shouldn't be taken to mean that there's something wrong with it, just that the central joke is stretched a little thin)
 
Just finished The Wrong Man by John Katzenbach, a tale of obsessive love, stalking and the frantic efforts of a young woman trying to extricate herself from the stalker's clutches. He is a criminally minded but clever man who throws her whole family into chaos and sets in motion an intricate plot by the family to trap him. Suspenseful and absorbing. :star4:
 
canuck said:
Just finished The Wrong Man by John Katzenbach, a tale of obsessive love, stalking and the frantic efforts of a young woman trying to extricate herself from the stalker's clutches. He is a criminally minded but clever man who throws her whole family into chaos and sets in motion an intricate plot by the family to trap him. Suspenseful and absorbing. :star4:
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Sounds delicious. :)
 
Magnus Hedlund, Någon där? (Anyone There?). Metapataphysics. Interesting; might return to this once I'm more read up on Beckett. :star3:

Angela Choi, Hello Kitty Must Die. An American Psycho with a minority angle? Well, not quite, but it gets pretty far on attitude. Should probably write a review of this. :star3:

Per Ole Persson, Jaco. Second new Swedish novel I've read this year about Western attitudes towards Pacific islanders. The better of the two. :star4:

Andrei Codrescu, Tzara And Lenin Play Chess. Woah. Argues that the central ideological conflict of the 20th century, carrying over into the posthuman 21st century, isn't socialism vs capitalism or individualism vs collectivism - that's all basic marxism anyway; the central conflict is Lenin's large-scale ordered society vs Tzara's dadaism. And dada, he argues, is what the Internet is. Heady stuff. :star4:
 
Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller. From the cover: "Nonreligious thoughts on Christian Spirituality." The story of the author's spiritual life journey in looking for -- and finding -- the relevance of personal Christian belief for the real existential world we all know and love and live in. Telling of the author's everyday experiences in ordinary conversational language, it offers an easily accessible personal view, different from the stereotypical, of what Christian belief is "about." Worthwhile reading for believers and non-believers alike who are interested in the question.
 
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