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Summary: excerpt of review in Library Journal, Nov. 1, l997
Review: "Grossman has captured the real thing: a smart guy who doesn't know whether he should immerse himself in corporate culture. The writing is full of sly humor and the kind of erudite facts favored by recent graduates, along with a cyncism that only the young can sustain. Grossman is most successful in capturing voice (here meaning angst) and rendering great dialog..." -Doris Lynch
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Summary: Praise for WARP
Review: "This [debut] relies on its strenths-- deadpan comic dialogue, tivial irony and faultless, un-ostentatious evocations of place-- without any of the efforts to preach or shock or amaze that plague so many chronicles of generation X."
-- Publishers Weekly"Fun, sassy, and sardonic...Grossman has captured the real thing: a smart guy who doesn't know whether he should immerse himself in corporate culture."
--Library Journal "What Grossman does best...is the old-fashioned stuff-- the plain old action, dialogue and storytelling that could have easily carried the book."
-- Time Out New York
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Summary: Laughable, but not funny
Review: "Warp" features none of the wry intelligence and humor on display in Grossman's Salon essay. Thie first draft of a novel is an aimless, shallow tale told without insight or humor. The characters are unmemorable, the plot is nonexistant, and the dialogue is painfully cliched. I am truly disappointed that I wasted an afternoon reading this drivel.
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Summary: About nothing, has nothing going for it
Review: Absolute unadulterated puerile pap. For such a perilously sleight "novel," this spillage worthy of Onan reads like a much, much longer writing workshop exercise gone metastatically awry. Ill-conceived, poorly executed, and disaffectedly lame ... this is the sort of fiction only someone on the losing end of a bet should be subjected to.
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Summary: Thinly-disguised autobiography including adolescent fantasy
Review: Although Warp's plot is a little thin, Lev's references to pop culture are amusing. He covered the Gen X waterfront pretty well. I would have liked to see him stretch himself a bit, though, perhaps with a reference to Nigel Molesworth instead of Terri Garr. And Lev, there are no women like Xanthe, OK?
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Summary: Quite a good book
Review: I enjoyed it thoroughly, doubly so after I stumbled across the article on salon by the author. Keep up the good work, Lev!
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Summary: Not a great book.
Review: I found "Warp" to be unreadably trite. The main character is extremely self-absorbed and the narration suffers from the author's arch media references. The novel has no plot, its characterization is weak, and its general tone is facile and somewhat sophomoric. I do not strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: Not a great book.
Review: I found "Warp" to be unreadably trite. The main character is extremely self-absorbed and the narration suffers from the author's arch media references. The novel has no plot, its characterization is weak, and its general tone is facile and somewhat sophomoric. I do not strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: This is quality!
Review: I had the pleasure of reading Mr. Grossman's book BEFORE the flurry of email surrounding his hilarious Salon article. I only wish that I had written a stellar review of "Warp" earlier so that Mr. Grossman would have not felt the need to bolster his ratings with his own reviews. As an aimless twenty-something myself, I found Warp to be amusing and worth every second of my time. I look forward to the next installment from the mighty Mr. Grossman.
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Summary: Y2K cool but still a waste of my time
Review: I read this book in a half hour standing at a bookstore after reading an article on a web magazine where the author confided he wrote in positive reviews to his advertisement here at amazon.com to defend himself against the negative ones. That was enough to peak my interest. Unfortunately, the book didn't and I agree, sadly, with the criticism. I literally sped through the book-- the literary nod to Joyce didn't keep me interested and I love Joyce. In my opinion, this author should just live with his negative criticisms and work on making his next book worth the praise he wants.
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