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...world of letters. It’s not that “2666” was not a great work or that I feel it shouldn’t have won. In fact, though I have to admit I haven’t finished it, I have a hard time believing that there could be another piece of fiction from 2008 that is more ambitious, more expansive, more powerful than Bolaño’s book—that there is any other book more deserving. Rather, the problems that I see all stem from that simple piece...
...satisfying the former, sometimes compromises the latter. Genie is a precocious preteen with a high IQ and a whole host of anger issues. He was held back a year after he punched his fifth grade art teacher. He has no friends. In truth, it’s hard for him to communicate with people at all. When vandalism strikes the local retirement home, Genie’s grandmother hires him for his first paying detective case. The plot is the stuff of a children’s chapter book, but “Huge” is nothing...
...something more gruesome than banal. Grayson Donald has hanged himself from a basketball hoop: “His lunch has already made its way through the intestine and colon and now takes the form of hot brown shit cooling in the sagging seat of his Hanes boxer briefs. A hard-on protrudes from the crotch of his cargo pants.” It is November 2, and he’s been swinging by his neck all day. From this sort of morbid fascination, Boice’s blunt, transparent prose and disjointed vignettes evolve into a meticulous, disarmingly honest...
...We’re competing and working hard now to win a different championship, the NIT,” senior forward Katie Rollins said. “We’re bringing the same high standard...
...simple enough that it can be learned by watching the video. Lil’ Wayne and Dave Meyers, who co-directed “Prom Queen,” were probably aware that Lil’ Wayne’s guitar skills aren’t really hard-rocking, nor rocking at all. They attempt to raise the level of rock in “Prom Queen” by employing a gratuitous dose of seizure-inducing camera effects. Bluish stage lights flash constantly, scene changes occur in sporadic bursts, and every drum fill thrashes the camera like an earthquake...