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The Lost Symbol
Review by Leah Friedman, eMusic
Dan Brown's most Byzantine tale yet, set in its most sinister location — Washington, D.C.
"The secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret had always been how to die." So begins Dan Brown's third Robert Langdon adventure The Lost Symbol. Equal parts action and exposition, this latest entry manages to cram 133 chapters, a prologue and epilogue's worth of furiously paced puzzles into a plot that s...
Say You're One of Them
Review by Scott Esposito, eMusic
Sharp African stories from a promising new voice
Given the weight of his compelling New Yorker short stories and the fact that he was shortlisted for the "African Booker," Uwem Akpan's first collection, Say You're One of Them, comes with high expectations. Akpan, a Jesuit priest turned writer, grandly delivers. His stories of an impoverished Africa are bracing without being heavy-handed, and the strong audio narration...
I Drink for a Reason
Review by Claire Zulkey, eMusic
David Cross disdains you for being too lazy to read the print version — would you have it any other way?
Stand-up comic, writer, sketch artist ("Mr. Show") and comic actor ("Arrested Development") David Cross' sojourn into writing translates well into audiobook form; at times, it feels as much a comic album as it does a book. The text itself is a hodgepodge of first- person rants, sensational satirical fiction ...
Inherent Vice
Review by Scott Esposito, eMusic
A Pynchonian Beach Read
The literary world was somewhat astonished late last year to find that Thomas Pynchon was publishing another book. The 1000-page Against the Day had just come out in 2006, and Pynchon's fans are accustomed to waiting a good ten years between their hits. So a new book only three years after the last one was big news — but this isn't your normal Pynchon novel.
In Inherent Vice, the author ...
Official Book Club Selection
Review by Jami Attenberg, eMusic
No one's safe, not even Griffin herself, in this catty, chatty memoir of a D-lister
"This book is equal parts shit-talking about myself and others," says Kathy Griffin at the beginning of her memoir, Official Book Club Selection— and she lives up to that promise. No one's safe in this funny, revealing and sometimes shocking look at Kathy's rise to fame, from aspiring Midwestern actress to sitcom sidekick ("Sudd...
The Greatest Show on Earth
Review by Scott Esposito, eMusic
The world's preeminent atheist lays out a case for evolution
On the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins has attempted to silence evolution's critics once and for all. Good luck with that. Though ...
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The idea that diverse languages are a form of divine punishment, serving only to separate us, is a popular one in numerous mythologies and religious traditions. In Genesis, humanity is unified by a common tongue until God, concerned that the people are becoming too powerful and proud, scatters them and creates different languages. Invented systems such as Esperanto have sought to remove this curse through the reinstate...
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eMusic Audiobooks Q&A: Ron Currie
For a purveyor of doom and gloom, Ron Currie Jr. is an awfully nice guy. That's not to say that the author of the apocalyptic novels Everything Matters! and God Is Dead — a third end-of-the-world volume is in progress — doesn't mean to freak you out. He's perfectly fine with a little hair-raising and a lot of What's-the-Meaning-of-Life rumination. But, like the best horror-movie auteur, he still wants yo...
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