Monthly Archives: January 2015

review of: the good soldier, by ford madox ford

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The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford My rating: 1 of 5 stars This book is vastly overrated. It pioneered, if that is the right word, the untrustworthy narrator, which may have seemed an innovation a century ago, but now looks worn, disconsolate, like a ramshackle back alley. It also […]

review of: updike, by adam begley

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Updike by Adam Begley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Let me say upfront: I’m not usually a fan of biographies. They always end badly. Especially in today’s morally unanchored world, the towering ambition of most lives worthy of a biography leaves a path of destruction on the way to […]