Tag: magical realism

Ishmael Returns to Whale of a Motel Room

After the fiasco with the stampeding herd of chevrotains, Ishmael returned to his room at the Pequod.

Motel Run Like a Whaling Ship

Motel Run Like a Whaling Ship

The light flickered the way bad motel room lighting stereotypically does. Ishmael Barz pulled a slab …

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Last Episode of Lost OK by Me

All the Starring Characters in Lost
All the Starring Characters in Lost

You may think that I haven’t blogged in a while, but you’d be wrong. Actually, I’ve blogged plenty. Unfortunately, those entries were virtual blog posts—virtual in the quantum sense, not in the Lawnmower Man

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Review of Book Reviews of Three-Fifths of The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

I decided to try a novel approach to a book reviews, and write a review of the reviews of the book before I have completed reading the book. Why would I do that? Do a Google search on “book reviews …

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Five Unreadable Novels that I Read

Some novels are rumored to be too dense, arcane, or pretentious to be read in their entirety. Those sorts of novels are my specialty, and I have been emboldened to complete five such novels from beginning to end.

100 Years

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Italo Calvino Good, Unpublished Guy’s Overstructured Plots Not So Good

The Italo Calvino novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler, opened me up to a completely different type of story-telling. First, the story is written in the second person point of view. You know the second person, that point …

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