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About Kevin J. High
See more books from this AuthorWhile in her scenes with Quentin she sometimes feels like a retread of Alice, a magician of unearthly power who provided much of the juice in “The Magicians,” in her own story she’s a character of real grit and fierce intelligence.
Aug 26 2011 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...It seems to me there are two ways of understanding the document assembled from a jumble of boxes, disks and printed or handwritten papers that, at the time of David Foster Wallace’s suicide in 2008, ran into the high hundreds of pages — a document that, conscientiously and intelligently whittled ...
Apr 14 2011 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...When the local storekeeper and huckster decides that Dome Day’s famine-inducing possibilities can help him unload a lot of old hot dogs, someone at the hospital is told to “expect an influx of gastroenteritis patients this evening.” All of this along with the smog that starts to choke off Ches...
Nov 11 2009 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...Mr. King generates suspense just following the way Edgar struggles with his memory.
Jan 21 2008 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...Each act of cruelty or violence is somehow associated — harmonized, King would suggest — with every other act.
Nov 10 2011 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...“In a disembodied voice, as though reading from a script, she gave him instructions the way a kidnapper would give instructions: how much money she wanted — 250 now, monthly, because of the kid — the date each month she wanted it, the post-office box in Portland where he had to send it, what woul...
Nov 23 2011 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...In a time when a gallon of gas costs 19 cents, Jake buys a '54 Ford Sunliner convertible, tunes to the Everly Brothers, and heads south toward Dallas, facing detours all the way.But Jake's target never detours from Oswald.In the story's rush to the climactic ending, Jake frantically limps against...
Nov 17 2011 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...NEW YORK — Michael Jackson was the type of entertainer who oversaw all the details of his shows, from the slick choreography to the rhinestones and pearls sewn onto his elaborate costumes, his longtime costume designer said.
Oct 18 2012 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...By the time King Larry reaches the protracted, thickety probate part of its narrative—and there emerges an illegitimate-child claimant to the Hillblom estate with the tragicomically pidgin-ish name of Junior Larry Hillbroom—Scurlock’s rollicking ride is over.
Jan 12 2012 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...11/22/63 isn’t your typical King outing: it’s a time-travel novel about a guy who finds a portal back to 1958 and uses it to try to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy.
Nov 02 2011 | Read Full Review of King: Times like these requir...