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Jens Hofenbitzer j_hofenbit0a24 — Although the love for jazz comes through page after page, where a reader can hear the music through Allen’s words, Chasing the Dragon is not just a jazz history, though you could do worse to read it as such. It is also a love story--whether love of the art one creates, despite the toll it takes, or the love of another person, romantic or otherwise. Nick Flynn’s love for Wardell Gray, a man he previously considered just short of a close friend, is as real and deep as his love for Sarah, the woman he meets and falls for, against what he believed to be his way of life, otherwise, the burning need to redeem Wardell could never have rooted. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that the love comes first from Wardell’s art, and then from the realization that there must have been something special in the life, and something dark and untoward in the death. It is then also a first class mystery, with crooked cops and unreliable witnesses, dead-ends and shocking revelations--some large, some as small as can be contained in a living room, in hard talk between family. There’s a breathtaking range and quality to Allen’s writing, veering from smooth flowing narrative to the colloquial speech of the interludes that appear throughout the book. These interludes capture the personalities, passions, pettiness, ambitions and fears of these musicians--some in the voices of the musicians themselves--with someone like Charles Mingus it could be no other way--but the ones that are not monologues do their work just as well. This could easily become one big jazz blur--there are dozens of artists portrayed in Chasing the Dragon, and for someone who does not have a particular knowledge of jazz and its history, the danger would be that the players would merge into one indefinable ball. But they don’t. Allen creates perfect moments--the first interlude with Art Pepper, wasted and pathetic, terrifies. The interlude with Coltrane is vibrantly emotional, and precariously hopeful, the moments after his deciding to kick, where we still fear for him, for relapse, and yet--there’s a sense of oncoming recovery, and a movement toward peace through the struggle that inspires. The players’ unique qualities come easily to the fore, allowing us to hone in on their specific story, while their insertion into the larger frame moves the central story forward. In the main narrative, there’s the quest for belonging, of being an outsider, whether it be because of one’s skin color--for Nick, being a white man, and a non-musician who to a large degree loves jazz music as much as the artists performing it, or the musicians themselves, predominantly black, during a time where race relations in the country were at their nadir, pre or just immediately post-Brown, where a black musician, no matter what level of genius, was still considered less than a person in much of the 48 states, north and south. This book, as with so much of Allen’s non-prose writing, does many things, and does them all amazingly well. It takes chances with form and style, and nails them on all counts. For me, it is like watching a great athlete whose skills are not limited to one aspect of a game. Or, better yet, like hearing a musician whose innate talent, honed by untold hard work and continuous effort, have made him formidable, in every aspect of his art.

Lilia Petrova _ilia_e — some of the stories i could've gone without reading, but anything with achebe's name on the cover (writer or editor) deserves a chance i think.

Sararut Klinmala sararut — Nothing but Trouble is the 14th book written by Rachel Gibson. Twin Chelsea is an out of work Actress and is in desperate need of money. When the offer of a $10,000 bonus on top of a salary is offered she jumps at the chance. How hard can it be to care for a Famous Hockey Star recovering from a near fatal road accident for just 3 months? Moody Mark Bressler is finding it extremely hard to recover from his accident and not to be able to do one of the two things he does best in life, play Hockey. But he definitely does not need a “carer” and certainly not an overly cheerful Chelsea. How hard can it be to make her quit? Is this going to be the toughest role of actress Chelsea life? Can opposites attract and sparks fly? This is a very quick and easy book to read (maybe comes across a little rushed). Not a huge story to it and it is rather obvious where this book will go, saying that, I did enjoy it and liked the funny elements with in it between Mark and Chelsea. It is a typical “Beverly Hills” type book, full of riches and sexual references (and some of that can be extremely detailed!!) I would say however, I felt the ending was rather rushed and maybe not totally believable .. however anything can happen in Hollywood!! This book is my 3rd book in the Transworld Book challenge.

Francesca Noya happynoya — I don't care how much he made up, I still loved it. So there!