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Veronika Bolebruchová veronikabod4e4 — Abdoh's debut is a terse mess of a spy novel, obviously run through the contemporary fiction workshop mill and sucked clean of anything interesting. His prose is snappy, but these days snappy prose is not enough, especially in a book marketed as literary fiction. I suppose there's some sort of exotic allure, Abdoh and his narrator both being Iranian, but there's no sense of culture in any of the characters, so any claim of multiculturalism rings empty and false. The narrator's tone is clueless and mystified with New York, and it's not immediately convincing that Abdoh is in control of this. Sami's judgements are generic - Damadi is fack, Joanna is ugly - but we don't get anything more rich than that, no motivation or drive. Some of the Brooklyn streets are rendered with convincing desolation and a touch of understanding of the NYPD. The dialogue is paced well and the greasy basements of falafel joints bring out the grit and small time nature of these Arab thugs. Much of the spy detail seems straight of a 60s thriller, James Bond with no flair, pay phones with voice encoders, masked identities and triple crosses. Too much of Sami's conflict is an internal argument about who is who, and who is working for who, so his own thoughts contradict themselves in almost humorous Maxwell Smart ways. The generic sex-drenched spy shit is tempered, until Ellena, a mysterious and beautiful blonde poetess shows up, and the story becomes Hollywood as hell. The worst sex scene of all time, starts out, "They began to kiss...like explorers. Then he penetrated her again." Abdoh shows a general lack of knowledge about human interactions and relations. The generic spy shit gets slppey when Ellena dances fetish at the club, though this might be the perfect kinky idiocy of the 90s coming out. The bloodshed is unbelievable, especially that Sami, an otherwise sympathetic character has no real problem with capping people. I don't even believe him as a spy, let along a killer. Sami's moral compass, though he's not a muslim, is quite similar, in that it is more reprehensible for one to have whipped cream licked of one's body than to put a bullet into another human being's temple. The double-crossing convolutions become excessive and comedic along with the exploration of Sami's "American half." The Poet Game is written like Abdoh wanted the shitty Hollywood adaptation to be pretty much word for word from the novel, and the silliness of the twisty plot culminates in Sami getting gunned down with Ellena. Are we supposed to feel sorry, or some sort of romantic release a la Bonnie and Clyde? I feel little to nothing.

Yosafat Nájera _ocho — That Mr. Hitchens is quite the name dropper, but he is entertaining as hell. Am still in his Oxford years and look forward to the more crazy boozin times he had with Amis and well, everybody apparently.

Adelaide Khaled _delaide_haled — I read this book for my American Ethnic Literature class in college. I tried to start reading it over the summer to get a head since it so long, but that didn't really happen. I had a bit of a hard time starting the book because I didn't really understand where or who the narrator was. Once it got to telling the story though, I really liked the book. I think my professor really helped with that though. I remember him saying that the main character never learns his lesson though or the book would be wicked short. I actually think I never read the end! Oh my, hmmmm. Maybe I should do that. I also wrote a paper I was pretty proud of on this book. I remember my professor writing that the end seemed rushed and I thought, well, the end was rushed because I didn't read it!

Vladka Macurova yenna — Reading this book, one would think the only successful lawyers are ones who graduated from a top 20 school and practice at a large multi-national firm. Geared toward students who have been gunning for the Ivy League since pre-school.

Steve Doninger _inkin5_ark085b — I absolutely adore this series. I'm not quite sure why a world full of zombies and tragedy appeals to me, but there you go. I find Carrie Ryan's post-zombie-apocalyptic world captivating. Each novel has tugged at my emotions and made me truly care about the characters. This series is sure to stay on my list of favorites for a long time, and it won't be forgotten easily. I would definitely recommend this series, beginning with The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves to anyone who has an interest in dystopian novels.

Ed Van edvv — I liked the first book in the series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) despite the veering into almost super hero status of the title character. Sort of a guilty pleasure. So I was looking forward to this book. Still a page turner, but at some point ones credulity is over whelmed by the Lisbeth Salander character's now super super human aspects, especially the ending. Available as ebook. (view spoiler)