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  1. review of The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach [END] <-- 4:37 PM May 11th via web
  2. it's a terrific debut novel, and i do recommend it but caveat emptor w/r/t to dialog and how the characters are written and interact 4:37 PM May 11th via web
  3. there is some honestly great writing in this book but most of it revolves around atmosphere and i wished i believed the characters more 4:37 PM May 11th via web
  4. again, i liked this book. i just wound up wanting to rearrange faces and remember it as something other than what it wanted to be 4:36 PM May 11th via web
  5. i felt annoyed and put on at times, like watching an indie movie with no direction but good performances 4:36 PM May 11th via web
  6. but some of the actions of the characters just rubbed me the wrong way 4:35 PM May 11th via web
  7. some of the inner monologues of the characters--especially with Schwartz--are outstanding, same goes for how it tethers itself to Melville 4:35 PM May 11th via web
  8. the writing about the college, Westish, and its surroundings and the peripheral characters (the chef at the school) are palpable too 4:35 PM May 11th via web
  9. and Schwartz is a terrific and fleshed-out character 4:35 PM May 11th via web
  10. and yet... i kinda loved this book. Harbach's writing, especially about baseball, is inspired and palpable -- 4:35 PM May 11th via web
  11. i never bought the exhuming of the coffin and the funeral in the lake 4:34 PM May 11th via web
  12. Guert and Owen didn't seem believable; Henry at times felt like a robot set to "Randian" level 4:34 PM May 11th via web
  13. and yet... there was too much to The Art of Fielding that i just didn't buy; couldn't accept as it was being presented to me 4:33 PM May 11th via web
  14. a song's meaning or feeling to a person can be vastly different from the artist's original intentions; this doesn't usually apply to novels 4:33 PM May 11th via web
  15. or maybe another way to describe The Art of Fielding is to just say that i thought of it more as a song than a novel when i was done with it 4:33 PM May 11th via web
  16. in particular, these lyrics: "I had to rearrange their faces/And give them all another name" 4:33 PM May 11th via web
  17. the best way to explain this novel (a debut novel that took 10 years to write) is to quote Bob Dylan from the song "Desolation Row" 4:32 PM May 11th via web
  18. --> [BEGIN] review of The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach 4:32 PM May 11th via web
  19. review of Saturday Night by @susanorlean [END] <-- 5:49 PM Apr 21st via web
  20. She expands upon the universality of Saturday night in an immensely enjoyable way. Orlean is a photographer with words. 5:49 PM Apr 21st via web
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