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5.0 out of 5 stars
This guy can write!
One of the best books I've ever read, and I've read billions. The prose just sings. I was here buying his other two novels and happened to see that the average customer review for "Air" was only two stars. Well, don't listen to them! This writer has an exquisite gift with words that is rarer than hen's teeth (I obviously don't have the gift, but like Solieri, I sure...
Published on November 28, 2004 by Diane Alexander
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Nice Try
Good premise; snake oil salesmen are fun. But writing shows inexperience, and asides from author to reader are gauche and jejune. Ending seems unmotivated: why return to a radio station in flames? Fictionalizing of historical fact is well done, but invention would have been better. Female lead character is precious. Oddly, characters are most believable when bizarre,...
Published on March 31, 2000 by James Hercules Sutton
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This guy can write!,
This review is from: The Very Air: A Novel (Paperback)
One of the best books I've ever read, and I've read billions. The prose just sings. I was here buying his other two novels and happened to see that the average customer review for "Air" was only two stars. Well, don't listen to them! This writer has an exquisite gift with words that is rarer than hen's teeth (I obviously don't have the gift, but like Solieri, I sure recognize it when I see it.) Buy this book!
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nice Try,
By James Hercules Sutton (Des Moines, IA (USA)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Very Air: A Novel (Paperback)
Good premise; snake oil salesmen are fun. But writing shows inexperience, and asides from author to reader are gauche and jejune. Ending seems unmotivated: why return to a radio station in flames? Fictionalizing of historical fact is well done, but invention would have been better. Female lead character is precious. Oddly, characters are most believable when bizarre, as if author finds it difficult to deal with what's normal. Worth reading author's next novel; this one a transition piece, because labored and flawed.
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The Very Air: A Novel by Douglas Bauer (Paperback - Sept. 1997)
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