Books by John Brandon
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review 1: I LOVED this book. Lively and lyrical storytelling with a simple profundity. The author's sparse and poetic style reminds me of Richard Brautigan. There were gem like lines that actually took my breath away.The book consists of loosely interwoven and multi-perspective vignettes p...
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review 1: Poignant, haunting, addictive and a real page turner. The three protagonists were all delightfully troubled, with a dark misery in them that seemed to light the book up. A very thought-provoking story that strokes the border of something remarkably twisted. It was very poetic alm...
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review 1: Okay, I lied—I didn't actually finish this book. Two stories in I decided it wasn't really worth it. To be fair, this is a well-written book. Brandon has some interesting insights into human emotion and motivation, which is interesting at times in these stories. However, they are...
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review 1: I liked this book but kept feeling like it was too little of each person. Brandon has the ability to flesh out characters without resorting to long, tedious descriptions of them. He impressively switches between them quite well, yet disappointment comes into the picture. The sepa...
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review 1: John Brandon just kills me dead. I wonder if i'm maybe just a complete mark for his brand of fiction - a precise, minimal style paired with wounded, wondering characters. All the characters in the three of his books I've read (there is apparently a new fourth one) seem to always ...