I have fallen so far behind with my reviews recently due to other commitments (not least, the writing of my own novel) but I simply had to find time to bring this one to the top of the review pile. I received James Warner’s novel All Her Father’s Guns to review just before Christmas, after [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Offbeat’
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
I finished reading Adam Ross’s novel Mr. Peanut over a week ago, and I’ve been beating myself up over whether or not to write a review. As regular visitors will know, I only publish reviews of novels that I would recommend other people should read. Mr. Peanut left me in a bit of a quandary, [...]
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk’s inexorable rise to cult status has continued unabated since the widespread success of his first published novel Fight Club, which was later made into an equally widely acclaimed film. Published in 1996, Survivor followed up this success and also cemented Palahniuk’s growing reputation for originality and sharp satire. Read on for a full [...]
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
I think it’s fair to say that Kurt Vonnegut’s writing tends to polarise people, you either love his work or hate it. Always quirky and full of the unexpected, he has a knack of exposing the madness of the everyday world and laying it bare in a way that is often highly amusing. Breakfast of [...]