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May 14, 2008
Yes, I thought so. While avoiding the day's actual work, I found a link to this Slate.com article via Shelf Awareness that should make us all feel better about ourselves. It's their look at "Great Novels About Wasting Time." Specifically, that "... small and unnerving category of literature that is not only about procrastination but that, in form and style, enacts the frenetic paralysis of irrational delay. The reader who procrastinates may discover the sharpest pleasures and horrors of recognition within the tangled, meandering sentences in these slender volumes--detour-clogged journeys that go around and around in crooked, tortured circles as they strenuously avoid their destinations."  Comments (0) Leave comment
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At The New York Times, Janet Maslin raved (while mimicking his style:) "He got a second act. He got another chance. Look what he did with it. He stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park. No more lying, no more melodrama, still run-on sentences still funny punctuation but so what. He became a furiously good storyteller this time." At the Los Angeles Times, David L. Ulin ripped it: " Bright Shiny Morning is a terrible book. One of the worst I've ever read. But you have to give James Frey credit for one thing: He's got chutzpah. "
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