Book Reviews

Welcome to the book club. Here will be kept in archive the book reviews I post on Dead End Follies. They will be kept in writer's alphabetical order and in case I review many books from the same person, I will post them in chronological order so I can keep perspective on his work. I will mainly review novels and short story books, but I will review anything with a narrative twist to it (Hunter S. Thompson) for example. In the eventuality I get published one day, I'll start reviewing books about writing.

Various Authors


Pulp Ink (2011)

A

Abbott, Megan - The End Of Everything (2011)
Allen, Anne R. - The Gatsby Game (2011)
Amore, Dani - Death By Sarcasm (2011)

Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak (1999)
Asher, Levi - Chiaroscuro: Assorted Literary Essays (2011)

B


Banks, Ray - Gun (2008)
Banks, Ray - Dead Money (2011)
Bill, Frank - Crimes In Southern Indiana (2011)
Block, Lawrence - The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
Brown, R. Thomas - Mayhem (2011)
Brown, R. Thomas - Merciless Pact (2011)
Brubaker, Ed - Criminal Vol. 2:Lawless (2007)
Brubaker, Ed - Criminal Vol. 5:The Sinners (2010)
Brubaker, Ed - Criminal Vol. 6:The Last Of The Innocent (2011)
Bryson, Bill - A Short History Of Nearly Everything (2003)
Burke, James Lee - The Neon Rain (1987)

C

Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood (1966)
Carver, Raymond - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)
Carver, Raymond - Cathedral (1984)
Clark, Aaron Philip - The Science Of Paul (2011)
Coelho, Paulo - Veronika Decides To Die (1998)
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games (2008)

D

DeLillo, Don - White Noise (1985)
Didion, Joan - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
Dirty Poet (The) - Emergency Room Wrestling (2011)
DOA - Citoyens Clandestins (2007)
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

E

Eggers, Dave - A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

Eggers, Dave - Zeitoun (2009)
Ellroy, James - The Black Dahlia (1987)

Ellroy, James - White Jazz (1992)
Ellroy, James - American Tabloid (1995)
Ellroy, James - My Dark Places (1996)
Ennis, Garth - Preacher Vol. 1 (1997)

F

Ferrell, Sean - Numb (2010)
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott - The Beautiful And Damned (1922)
Fowles, John - The Collector (1963)
Franzen, Jonathan - Strong Motion (1992)
Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections (2001)
Franzen, Jonathan - How To Be Alone (2002)
Franzen, Jonathan - Freedom (2010)
Fritz, Leonard - In Nine Kinds Of Pain (2011)

G

Garcia, Jesus Angel - badbadbad (2011)
Golberg, Harold - All Your Base Are Belong To Us (2011)
Grainger, Edward A. - The Adventures Of Cash Laramie And Gideon Miles (2011)
Grainger, Edward A. - The Adventures Of Cash Laramie And Gideon Miles Vol. II (2011)
Green, Layton - The Summoner (2011)
Guthrie, Allan - Killing Mum (2009)

Guthrie, Allan - Bye Bye Baby (2010)

H

Hammett, Dashiell - Red Harvest (1929)
Hansen, Pearce - Street Raised (2006)
Hansen, Pearce - Gun Sex (2011)
Harding, Paul - Tinkers (2009)
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Hemingway, Ernest - A Moveable Feast (1964)
Hillier, Jennifer - Creep (2011)
Himes, Chester - The Big Gold Dream (1960)

I

Irving, John - A Prayer For Owen Meany (1989)

J


Jacobs, John Hornor - Southern Gods (2011)

K

Kerouac, Jack - On The Road (1957)
King, Stephen - The Long Walk (1979)
King, Stephen - The Green Mile (1996)

Klosterman, Chuck - Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural Nörth Daköta (2001)
Klosterman, Chuck - Sex, Drugs And Cocoa Puffs (2003)
Klosterman, Chuck - Killing Yourself To Live: 85% Of A True Story (2005)
Kolsterman, Chuck - IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006)

L

Lehane, Dennis - The Given Day (2008)
Lehane, Dennis - Moonlight Mile (2010)
Lethem, Jonathan - The Wall Of The Sky, The Wall Of The Eye (1996)
Leonard, Elmore - Three-Ten To Yuma And Other Stories (1953)
Lowrance, Heath - The Bastard Hand (2011)
Lowrance, Heath - Dig Ten Graves (2011)
Lowrance, Heath - Miles to Little Ridge (2011)
Lynskey, Ed - Ask The Dice (2011)

M

Mailer, Norman - The Deer Park (1955)

Mailer, Norman - An American Dream (1965)
Mailer, Norman - The Executioner's Song (1979)
McBride, Matthew - Frank Sinatra In A Blender (2011)
McDroll - Kick It Together (2012)
McEwan, Ian - Solar (2010)
Miller, Gregory - The Uncanny Valley: Tales From A Lost Town (2011)
Morrison, Toni - Beloved (1987)

N

Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita (1955)

O

O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man Is Hard To Find (And Other Stories) (1955)



P

Palahniuk, Chuck - Diary (2003)
Pelecanos, George - Right As Rain (2001) 
Piccirilli, Tom - Every Shallow Cut (2011)

Price, Richard - Clockers (1992)
Profijt, Jutta - Morgue Drawer Four (2009)
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying Of Lot 49 (1964)

Q

R

Rawson, Keith - The Chaos We Know (2011)
Rector, John - The Grove (2009)
Rector, John - The Cold Kiss (2010)
Rector, John - Already Gone (2011)
Rollins, Henry - Art To Choke Hearts/Pissing In The Gene Pool (1992)
Rollins, Henry - Broken  Summers (2003)
Russo, Richard - Empire Falls (2001)

S

Salinger, J.D - The Catcher In The Rye (1951)
Sambuchino, Chuck - How To Survive A Garden Gnome Attack (2010)
Sedaris, David - When You Are Engulfed In Flames (2008)
Smith, Anthony Neil & Victor Gischler - To The Devil, My Regards (2001)
Smith, Anthony Neil - The Drummer (2006)
Smith, Anthony Neil - Yellow Medicine (2008)
Smith, Anthony Neil - Hogdoggin' (2009)
Smith, Anthony Neil - Choke On Your Lies (2011)
Smith, Anthony Neil - All The Young Warriors (2011)
Stallings, Josh - Beautiful, Naked And Dead (2011) 
Stallings, Josh - Out There Bad (2011)
Stone, Robert - Dog Soldiers (1974)
Swierczynski, Duane - Fun And Games (2011)
Swierczynski, Duane - Hell And Gone (2011)

T

Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair (1948)
Thompson, Hunter S. - Hell's Angels: A Strange And Terrible Saga (1966)
Thompson, Jim - The Alcoholics (1953)
Thompson, Jim - Roughneck (1954)
Thompson, Jim - The Getaway (1959)

U

Updike, John - Rabbit, Run (1960)

V


Vachss, Andrew - Flood (1985)
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt - Mother Night (1961)

W

Wallace, David Foster - The Broom Of The System (1987)
Wallace, David Foster - Girl With Curious Hair (1989)
Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest (1996)
Wallace, David Foster - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997)
Wallace, David Foster - Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (1999)
Wallace, David Foster - Consider The Lobster And Other Essays (2005)

Wallace, David Foster - This Is Water (2009)
Warner, James - All Her Father's Guns (2011)
Warren, Robert Penn - All The King's Men (1946)
Wendig, Chuck - Blackbirds (2012)
Westlake, Donald E. - 361 (1962)
Wood, James - How Fiction Works (2008)
Woodrell, Daniel - Tomato Red (1998)
Woodrell, Daniel - Winter's Bone (2006)
Woodrell, Daniel - The Outlaw Album (2011)
Wolfe, Tom - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

X

Y

Z