Good Book Boys

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Just a couple of good boys reviewing a couple of good books.

  1. House of Leaves (Mark Z Danielewski, 2000) || Good Book Boys

    05/07/2024

    House of Leaves (Mark Z Danielewski, 2000) || Good Book Boys

    A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

    41 min
  2. The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles, 2021) || Good Book Boys

    06/19/2023

    The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles, 2021) || Good Book Boys

    In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future. (via Goodreads).

    34 min
  3. Running Dog (Don DeLillo, 1978) || Good Book Boys

    01/16/2023

    Running Dog (Don DeLillo, 1978) || Good Book Boys

    "DeLillo's Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to 'star' Adolf Hitler leads to trickery, maneuvering, and bloodshed. With streamlined prose and a thriller's narrative pace, Running Dog is a bright star in the modern master's early career."

    39 min
  4. Devil House (John Darnielle, 2022) || Good Book Boys

    08/28/2022

    Devil House (John Darnielle, 2022) || Good Book Boys

    “Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him.Now, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success--and movie adaptation--to his name, along with a series of subsequent lesser efforts that have paid the bills but not much more. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: To move into the house--what the locals call "The Devil House"--in which a briefly notorious pair of murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected 1980s teens. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected--back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is.”

    47 min

  5. 06/12/2022

    Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1995) || Good Book Boys

    "Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date." (via Goodreads).

    33 min
  6. The Plot Against America (Phillip Roth, 2004) || Good Book Boys

    03/28/2022

    The Plot Against America (Phillip Roth, 2004) || Good Book Boys

    "In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threatens to destroy his small, safe corner of America - and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother."

    53 min
  7. Hamnet (Maggie O’Farrell, 2020) || Good Book Boys

    12/21/2021

    Hamnet (Maggie O’Farrell, 2020) || Good Book Boys

    Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, HAMNET is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child.Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet.Award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell's new novel breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides an unforgettable vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.

    50 min
  8. Tintin in the New World: A Romance (Frederic Tuten, 1993) || Good Book Boys

    07/28/2021

    Tintin in the New World: A Romance (Frederic Tuten, 1993) || Good Book Boys

    "In this imaginative novel by Frederick Tuten, the author has dared to reimagine Tintin; the central character from Belgian artist Herge's comic book series, The Adventures of Tintin. In this story, Tintin, world traveler and reporter is once again joined by his fellow adventurers , Captain Haddock and his dog Snowy as they travel to the Inca city of Machu Picchu in Peru whre they meet Clavdia Chauchat. Along the way, Tintin has his first adult adventures, falls in love and becomes involved in life's more complex questions." Via Goodreads.

    43 min
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Just a couple of good boys reviewing a couple of good books.

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  • Creator
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  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
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    Good Book Boys