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Three Delays (2010)

by Charlie Smith(Favorite Author)

3.04 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061859451 (ISBN13: 9780061859458)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: Charlie Smith's writing is wild and poetic - very hard to describe actually - but it makes reading this book an experience like no other. I could pull out a hundred passages from the book to illustrate what I'm trying to say, but the one that is featured on the back cover is the most accessible at the moment: "If you left me, I would fade out like a dying Indian tribe. I'd disappear like the ivory-billed woodpecker. They'd see me, near the end, standing down on Calle Cinquo wearing one of your nightgowns, explaining things to the traffic." It never really came together as a story, but that is besides the point. If you can stomach 350 pages about a savage, catastrophic, feverish but inevitable love of two people that can't stop taking drugs, then I think the singular e... morexperience of reading this book is worth it.
review 2: At first I thought I would not like this book - a male drug addict and his obsessive love affair didn't strike me as interesting enough to spend time on a novel from his point of view, but recommended by a reader friend, I read the first page, and was captivated. Charlie Smith's 'story' is for you if you love language. The author is also a poet, and this is sentence after sentence of stunningly beautiful prose. It's a brilliant and wracked interior animated through and in context of things, and places. I gave this a five because the writing deserves bowled me over, but the story doesn't seem to be fully fleshed out as a novel might be, though, you understand fairly early on the ride you are in for, so I had no sense of disappointment. less

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