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Summary: An irresistible novel!!!
Review: The promises of Chabon's talent in Mysteries of Pittsburgh are stunningly apparent in Wonder Boys. The depth of emotion running through even the minor characters in this novel are so cunningly displayed that the reader is left to wonder if even the worst traits of these characters aren't OK after all. We witness the unraveling of the narrator's life with his own words, thus sharing his failed marriage, unrequited love, and almost desperate attempts not to succumb to the depression that is threatening to overwhelm him. To accept these most common of traits in him is to witness and accept them in ourselves. Read it again and again.
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Summary: Amusing insanity
Review: This is the first Chabon book I've listened to on tape. Chabon's wordsmithing and characters make this a delight. I don't know if I want to see the movie, I'd like to keep the images in my head intact.Good Entertainment.
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Summary: Funny story of academia; self-satire of a writer
Review: For those who liked the porridge of dreamy, groping adolescence served up in Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon's first novel, this book suggests the going-to-seed of all that was fresher in the first one. At times it is tasteless, at times funny, but too frequently its attempts to be hilarious are self-defeatingly obvious. I like novels about professors of English literature because I narrowly escaped becoming one, and this is a good example of the genre. It held my interest, but I wondered if my strings were just being pulled; for example, I wanted to know what would happen to the dead dog in the trunk of the protagonist's car and whether he would be arrested for his peccadillos and misdeeds. No, he's not arrested, but he ends up wondering if it was such a good idea to smoke so much grass while writing his novel Wonder Boys which even the girl student who fell in love with him turned up her nose at. Writers' self-parody is not always charming, although in this case the byplay and set-scenes are intriguing and entertaining. But enough is enough! Michael, write something more serious, something from the heart, not from the creative writing class. Find out how to pull your own strings before you pull the readers'.
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Summary: BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I don't have the words to describe how much I love this book. I had lost faith in the American novel and then I found it. I take it with me everywhere.
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Summary: dalai lama ate my oatmeal cookie
Review: Wonder-ful
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Summary: best book ever
Review: I have never read a book, so outstanding as wonder boys i hope he writes anouther as soon as possible
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Summary: Writing Workshop Writing About Writing Workshops
Review: I've tried to be impressed with this book, but cannot. That Michael Chabon is a master of the language is not in doubt. What is in doubt is whether, ultimately, his story and, more importantly, his characters, are relevant. If you want to spend a weekend reading a novel about pot heads in Pittsburgh, with a touch of homosexual love interest (isn't that sweet?), then this myopic exposition is for you. The main protagonist is too pathetic, the plot too lacking in higher action, the point of view too seedy (in an unexciting sense of the word). Reading it is to feel squeezed into a drab colored, excessively confining frame. Stories about writing workshops by products of writing workshops always seem to beg the question. Mr. Chabon, take a lesson from Thom Jones -- move out into the world. Away from the classrooms and away from the excessive self absorption of the ego hominem.
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Summary: Michael Chabon is a rising star.
Review: When his first book of short stories came out, his writing drew comparisons to Salinger, but after this, his third work, I don't know how accurate that is. He has developed a style all his own, combining humor and energy with just plain good fiction. Not as funny as _The Mysteries of Pittsburgh_, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing as this work is definitely worth reading. I think that Michael Chabon and Nick Hornby have a lot in common, and the two of them are the authors I watch the papers for in anticipation of new releases. The characters in their stories are seperated as the Americans and the British look at life in slightly different ways, but both imbue their characters with such charisma and humor that you cheer them on no matter how stupid they may be acting.
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Summary: A thoroughly enjoyable read.
Review: The characters are quirky, but completely believable and their adventure together is both hilarious and poignant. Michael Chabon is a wickedly inventive author. I look forward to seeing whether Curtis Hanson (director of LA Confidential) can bring the same glorious life to Chabon's writing that he did to James Ellroy's as this is the source material for Hanson's next film (due in the theaters in late 99).
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Summary: Not too bad...
Review: Okay, I'll admit it. I hated this book the first time I read it. Then I re-read it, and it's grew on me. Now, at my third time through, I'm in love. It's wonderful to read a book about my hometown and be able to relate to it.
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