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Four New Messages (2012)

by Joshua Cohen(Favorite Author)

3.15 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1555976182 (ISBN13: 9781555976187)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Graywolf Press

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 me, and overall it felt a little too...unfocused? We'll go with that, although that's not exactly what I'm trying to say (as if I can ever REALLY communicate how I feel about this stuff). Still, it's worth a read (and doesn't take much time either) if you're into this sort of (post-DFW, hyper-frenetic, post-postmodern) thing (which, usually, I am). I'll be keeping an eye out for Cohen's future work. (And, yes, I'm somewhat interested in Witz but would need some BIG praise to move it ahead of the o... morether big books on my list, e.g. 2666, Against The Day, A Naked Singularity, etc.)
review 2: An experiment in representing in fiction experience of being online that, as can be the case with experiments, isn't wholly successful. But still worth reading, simply because Cohen describes life online with none of the glibness, whether positive or negative, that passes for intelligent thought about the Internet. A writer bringing all his intelligence to bear on the interstices of life others are too busy to examine. less

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