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...honestly think the only reason I got the grades Princeton required was because throughout the algebra and the Latin and the Romantic poets, the thing that kept me going was the thought of the oxygen facials you could get in New York,” Sykes’ protagonist admits...
Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
...sweaty-browed, ruddy-cheeked fat kid who’s always picked last for the dodgeball team is the implicit protagonist of journalist Greg Critser’s Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, a cultural history of fat America released in paperback this January (Mariner Books 2004). What first started as a Harper’s Magazine cover story on obesity evolved into an insightful 200-page glimpse into a land of Super Mario Brothers, 7-11 Big Gulps and the expanding extra-large sweat pants sported by an increasing mass of dodgeball-hating...
...tough part about writing boy books, as we may as well call them (hey, chick lit doesn't rhyme either), is that a lot of guys just aren't all that complicated. Such a man is David, the 27-year-old protagonist of Scott Mebus' Booty Nomad (Miramax Books; 392 pages). David is a TV producer struggling to bounce back from a horrific breakup with a woman he can bring himself to refer to only as the Eater of Souls. Like Tom, David gets plastered, visits a strip club, hits on his female friends and longs for an unattainable lady...