I'm afraid to read him again. I didn't like Oscar Wao.
nossy Send a noteboard - 19/11/2012 01:47:54 PM
Is it too much to ask you to compare the two? 
Reviews of the 2012 National Book Award finalists (Poetry, YA, Non-Fiction, Fiction)
- 12/11/2012 08:39:13 PM
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Young People's Literature
- 12/11/2012 08:58:44 PM
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Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
- 12/11/2012 09:07:32 PM
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Sounds very interesting. I may give it a go
- 18/11/2012 11:19:19 AM
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It's a good primer read, but I suspect there are more in-depth studies of the Manhattan Project
- 18/11/2012 08:44:09 PM
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Non-Fiction
- 12/11/2012 09:16:35 PM
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Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- 12/11/2012 09:23:30 PM
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Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- 12/11/2012 09:27:07 PM
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Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945-1956
- 12/11/2012 09:29:59 PM
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Fiction
- 12/11/2012 09:34:43 PM
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Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
- 12/11/2012 09:37:02 PM
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I like him, and I want to read this. *NM*
- 15/11/2012 04:17:18 PM
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I've read all but one of his novels and this one is near the bottom in terms of interest/quality
- 18/11/2012 08:45:17 PM
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Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- 13/11/2012 07:45:53 AM
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I loved it.
- 13/11/2012 05:16:13 PM
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I got to meet Fountain last month in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books
- 13/11/2012 10:56:43 PM
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Junot Díaz, This is How You Lose Her
- 14/11/2012 01:47:31 PM
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I'm afraid to read him again. I didn't like Oscar Wao.
- 19/11/2012 01:47:54 PM
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