Word: novels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even I.Q. It doesn't so much as mention math in the course of two hours. In fact, it often feels more like a treatise on philosophy than mathematics, an exploration of the role that fate and free will play in our lives a sort of Milan Kundera novel put on film...
...even I.Q. It doesn't so much as mention math in the course of two hours. In fact, it often feels more like a treatise on philosophy than mathematics, an exploration of the role that fate and free will play in our lives a sort of Milan Kundera novel put on film...
...name Starbucks, referring to the first mate in Melville's leviathan novel, is meant to evoke the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders. So claims the recent paperback, Pour Your Heart Into It, written by the company's CEO. Starbucks connotes a product that is unique and mystical, yet purely American. Before reaching that purely American solution, however, the store was called Il Giornale, a name which aficionados thought captured the romance of the authentic espresso experience. In the battle between romance of the high seas and romance of the authentic espresso...
...puns and wordplays galore ("Ma, keep mum"; "Where was a penthouse pent?") and enough literary echoes--of Joyce; Yeats; Frost; Dante; oh hell, of nearly everybody--to keep graduate students on the prowl through these pages for years. But for all of Rushdie's brilliance, the parts of this novel seem greater than the sum of its whole...
Sante and Kenny Kimes are a walking, talking dime novel. This mother-and-son grifter team has conned, robbed and even enslaved. But the real problem, as an acquaintance observes, is that "the people they deal with keep coming up dead." The most famous of these may be Irene Silverman. This clunky but engrossing account of the Kimeses' relationship with the wealthy Manhattanite leaves us where the New York Police Department is now: with a seemingly notorious murder, but no body and only circumstantial evidence. Still, the book's catalog of doctored passports and errant blood drops shows why this...