A Best Seller in 1938 That Remains a Fun Read, by Kevin R. Kosar, September 22, 2009 Margaret Halsey was all of 27 years of age when she published With Malice Toward Some. It sold 800,000 copies. Not a bad way to start a writing career, for sure. The book’s birth was the product...
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“A Peculiar, Amusing, and Impressive Story,” by Kevin R. Kosar, September 17, 2009 Christopher John Francis Boone has Asperger Syndrome, a disease a bit like autism that leaves its victims with very limited abilities to empathize or interact with other human beings. This is his story. As told by him. Before you say, “Oh,...
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Why I Will Never Again Trust Anything Garrison Keillor Says, by Kevin R. Kosar, August 30, 2009 I cannot recall where I found this book, but I snatched it up because I had heard that Blount was a funny writer. The dust jacket includes effusive praise. Garrison Keillor exclaims, “Roy Bount’s stuff makes me...
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Once More to the Recycling Bin by Kevin R. Kosar I came across the book in a recycling bin; it was piled in there with other titles from three or more decades back. Their authors were the pop stars of their time, DeVries, Simenon, Michener, and Ludlum. The books had been discarded because the...
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Madcap, 21st Century Brit Fiction, by Kevin R. Kosar, August 20, 2008 Awfully funny, shockingly bawdy, and frequently quite touching. Haddon has a very good eye for people. If you like looney English fiction, you’ll probably enjoy this.
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