2.5 The author tries so hard to write deep, literary prose, and fails so horribly, in the opening chapters that I almost put this book down. So much telling, too, trying to capture long periods of time in a short book. But once the big surprise occurs, mid-book, we get more actual scenes, and th...
Penn’s mascot, a guy dressed as a Quaker, had yet to rouse the crowd to respond to more than a few half-hearted pre-game cheers. We parked ourselves on the grounds in front of the bleachers. “You sure you want to be here?” “Why not? It’s a game.” &n...
Their jokes were twisted into the terms of “a cult-like ritual” by one reporter. She was the one who got her hands on a catalog with Hunter’s Grim Reaper “NEXT!” T-shirt, among others. Joseph couldn’t help but smirk at seeing noogies defined on the local news by a reporter, that same chubby La...
“You look tired,” he told Cal, who stood naked at the sink, shaving. “Well, so do you.” Cal replied as they bumped hips. “I’m talking about all that pot,” Lee said. “You smoke it with me.” “Not all the...