Tag: Geek Love
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TTT: My 10 Favorite Fictional Unlikable Characters
Alice in Wonderland, Donna Tartt, fiction, Geek Love, Kate Christensen, Katherine Dunn, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Margaret Atwood, Mikhail Bulgakov, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Oscar Wilde, Ottessa Moshfegh, The Epicure's Lament, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Master and Margarita, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Secret History, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, unlikable characterTop Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. For me, reading is all about the characters. I want them to be interesting. I want them to have chutzpah and gumption and a *teensy* bit of common sense. They need to develop, have interesting viewpoints, be flawed. So actually, I really like the normally…
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I wanted to choose a food from this book that reflected the circus atmosphere, and there are few foods that do that better than fresh buttery popcorn. The first mention of popcorn occurs at the very beginning of the novel, when the narrator, the hunchbacked Oly, describes the ‘good days’ of her youth at the…
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There are some books that leave an indelible mark by dint of their incredible strangeness–books that startle and make you wonder how an author ever could have come up with it. This is one of these books. But it’s brilliant. Geek Love follows the story of Oly, an albino hunchback who her parents deplore for…
Allison Burris 