Books by Joshua Cohen
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review 1: I'll admit: I'm impressed by a lot of things here. The energy, the wordplay, the humor, all the commentary Cohen is going for in these stories. But I'm still a bit disappointed; it didn't click with me like I thought it would. Some of the stories (especially the last) dragged for...
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review 1: joshua cohen attempts to explode the short story structure but does not succeed with the type of explosion he's looking for. these stories (4 of them, longish-short stories, the titular "messages," a title that doubles as an inbox reminder) exist on a sort of shifting sand that n...
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review 1: I am an avid reader and almost always, no matter how bad a book is, I'll finish it. I couldn't do that with this book. Two hundred pages in I gave up. This book lacks everything that makes a book worth reading -- characters that grab your attention, a story that captures your i...