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Hazrat Ali ahazrat024c13 — It's fun. I'd rather have more Pendergast, but it's still fun. It's profoundly clear that, where Pendergast is a sleuth, Crew is supposed to be a spy, and Preston & Child know how to ratchet up tension like no others. But I still like Pendergast better.

Yip Au oya20136829 — Honestly, while it's often touted as the/a Great American Novel, I found it to be little more than an informative and in-depth look at 19th century whaling techniques. With a little something about Ahab tacked on at the end. But man, what great info on whaling!

Oliver Mozny _liver_ozny — My expectations were rings-of-Saturn high for “Swamplandia!” after finishing Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.” However, nothing but suffering and gnashing of teeth can come from high expectations, and I was bummed beyond bummed with “Swamplandia!” Where I found “St. Lucy’s” to be fresh and weird, I thought “Swamplandia!” was just a lengthier re-hash of the short story with all kinds of sad “bonuses.” “Swampandia!” follows alligator-wrestling sisters Ava and Ossie after their mother dies, and the rest of their family abandons them. It also includes the perspective of their brother Kiwi, as he runs off to work at a Swamplandia! theme park rival. Set in a mythic Florida filled with ghosts and bird men, it sounds like the perfect recipe of nonsense and fairy tale. Unfortunately, this recipe gave me the kind of food poisoning that makes me want to sue the restaurant. Karen Russell replaced the whimsy with actual terrible real-life things that happen to the siblings, like rape, loss of family, dead end jobs, and motel rooms. It is such an unpleasant contrast to the magical realism, it made me sad. Though the content of her short stories were dark, I felt like they were more darkly funny and tapered with a tinge of hopefulness. “Swamplandia!” is just dark-dark goose. If her other stories were any indication, I felt like Russell has a big enough imagination to create a completely unique novel without having to borrow from her most promising short story. I feel like she really said everything that needed to be said with the original “Swamplandia!” short, and I wish I didn’t know that things took a turn for the awful for Ava and Kiwi. I’ll definitely pick up another work by Karen Russell, but here’s to hoping it’s another short story collection. I think she is a short story superstar; her full-length novel felt like a B-celebrity’s tuneless singing career. Cruel, I know. -EZ Read Staffer Jenifer Watch the recorded review and meet Jenifer and Amelia here: http://vimeo.com/21037120