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Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories
Operation Greylord: The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust
Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto
My System: 21st Century Edition
The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love
James Madison: A Biography
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
Vanishing Point: A Novel
Markson has written a book, entitled "Vanishing Point" composed as though on 3x5 index cards. This is quite different.What passes for a protagonist, referred to as Author is also writing a book...Also composed on 3x5 index cards.Reviewer assumes that the technique employed is to be by defining the negative space of a narrative like a M.C. Escher drawing of fish.Reviewer agrees that this is interesting, but difficult to pull off, and wonders how well it will go.The cards are little factoids, such as "Rome, so-and-so died in".By noting patterns and themes, the reader is to catch wind of the "plot".Author is obsessed with aging, death, and criticism from other artists.Reviewer is an artist.The book does not live up to it's efforts, but IS literature because it while failing, fails greatly, reaching for the stars.This book is not great.Winfield, IL, stopped reading book in.
