Declan FitzPatrick

Modern Noir Detective Fiction

Revisado: 07-19-23

Read this book. You won’t regret it. If you enjoy Chester Himes, Dashell hammett, or the Autobiography of Malcolm X, this book is for you.

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Engaging Poetry with a Purpose

Revisado: 09-22-22

I've always wished I had an accessible way to read more poetry. I've never been able to read poetry collections for myself, mostly because I don't have anyone to discuss it with. This show does an amazing job of creating an engaging purpose for reading one poem at a time. I've listened to the first three episodes and they are great: thoughtful and worthwhile, a little irreverent while respecting the weight of the issues they confront.

Each episode begins with a sort of Dear Abby letter from a listener, and then the host asks a poet to respond with a poem (by anyone they choose) to address the listeners question. Each response has really landed with me. I'm really loving this.

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You have to read this!

Revisado: 11-26-19

If your are involved in teaching training learning or coaching or you know people who are you have to read this book now.

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First world problems

Revisado: 05-17-13

Put this book next to the Corrections, Don Delilo's White Noise or Underworld, or Salman Rushie's Shalamar the Clown, as a book that connects suburban domestic soap opera to global forces. The story never distances itself for the minute motivations of everyday suburban white reality, and yet it connects realistically with massive global social and economic forces. Want to know where we are? Read this book.

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Details the complex web of circumstances

Revisado: 05-17-13

Details the complex web of circumstances that allowed Hitler to rise to power. Clearly his personality was unique in the combinations of his passions, his ruthlessness, and his political savvy, but the circumstances he took advantage of had to foster certain fears and desires among wide segments of society. This makes sense of it.

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Darker and better

Revisado: 05-17-13

This series is so strong, each book asks a little more of the reader and complicates the situation further. Very satisfying.

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Adds depth and weight to an engaging series

Revisado: 05-17-13

This books adds a level of complexity to the characters and a mature emotional depth that heightens the emotional impact of the entire series.

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Makes the inexplicable understandable

Revisado: 05-17-13

Can't imagine how Nazi achieved and held that level of power? This book explains it.

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Weird postmodern fantasy

Revisado: 05-17-13

I have to say this kind of works. Postmodern combination of YA, ancient myth, and video games, more satisfying to me than Rick Riordan, but just as fast paced and read able.

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Awful

Revisado: 05-17-13

Awful. Reads like a confused dream not a novel. Like a story made up be 11-year-olds on a play ground at recess..."They have giant wings that fold-up and hide under their clothes so you don't notice them...and then they find and ATM card and guess the PIN #...And then the computers in the electronics story start talking to them...And then they discover a science lab in the subway..."

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