Books by Nicholson Baker
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review 1: Lovely, lovely prose. Mr. Baker does a great job of being delightful and interesting; however, where he fails is at being exciting. There's really no plot to this story, or I suppose you could say there is, but it's so quiet as to barely be worth mentioning. The thing is, I didn'...
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review 1: I came to this book at just the right moment in my life to really appreciate it. The themes of procrastination, solitude, and literary appreciation came together perfectly for me, and I basically wanted to spend all my time reading it. I think I might have found the narrative voi...
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review 1: I'll just review this with the one question that kept running through my mind as I read this book - ...um...What?? I gave it 2 stars instead of one because I honestly read it twice and although it made no more sense the second time around I found myself looking forward to some ra...
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review 1: A pretty darned cute scrappy kind of novel, which allows Nicholson Baker to just write about about whatever occurs to him, like cigars, the CIA, Quaker meetings, protest songs, being in love with your ex-girlfriend, drones, but mostly Debussy's 'The Sunken Cathedral' - I learned ...
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review 1: What a charmer! The narrator of Baker's The Anthologist, Paul Chowder, doesn’t want to be a poet anymore. He wants to write protest songs, or love songs, or protest-love songs. He's a bit unsettled in every sense. With songs on his mind, he’s forever talking about music and how m...
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review 1: I just loved this book...well to be honest after two or three pages I did not really know what to think about what I was reading but the more I kept on, the more I loved it.This is not pornography at all.actually it is about sex yes but it could have been about anything else and ...
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review 1: A collection of essays. Some topics I liked, some I didn't care for - but each was written with carefully selected interesting words and I like that kind of thing. One essay I esp. liked is "One Summer". The author makes me think about and see things in a way I haven't before....