Some people still read. For those that do we commend you and Ink Dropps is the place for you.
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Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.
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Too Long a Solitude by James Ragan
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Tinkers by Paul Harding
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I'm Feeling Lucky:The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary By David Sedaris
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Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin
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Sam Lipsyte's "The Ask"
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The Big Short by Michael Lewis
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Jennifer Egan:A Visit From The Goon Squad
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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
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The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
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An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
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The Lost City of Z by David Grann
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¡Satiristas! By Paul Provensa and Dan Dion
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
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End Game by Frank Brady
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
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Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follet
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman
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A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
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Skippy Dies By Paul Murray
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The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick
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Griftopia by Matt Taibbi
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Lush Life by Richard Price
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The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
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WAR by Sebastian Junger
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The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
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Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
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Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
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You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America’s Soul by Karen Abbott
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The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
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The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
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The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present Edited by David Lehman; Scribner Poetry
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Him Her Him Again the End of Him by Patricia Marx
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A Home At The End Of The World by Michael Cunningham
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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
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One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau
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Tweak by Nic Sheff
Mon Aug 8
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.
Tags: 2012?, Everything Matters!, Fiction, Mayan Calendar, Ron Currie Jr.
7.5/10 dropps The world will be ending, but you are already aware of this because you feel it close to your heart and in your gut. Nevermind. That is the reflux you are experiencing from last night’s Whataburger Patty Melt.
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Mon Aug 8
Too Long a Solitude by James Ragan
Tags: Billy Collins, James Ragan, poetry, Press, review, Too Long a Solitude, University of Oklahoma, US poet laureate
8.8/10 dropps In the opening lines of Too Long a Solitude, mid-western poet and playwright James Ragan asks whether “a rope could swing us / long and light across a widening trough / of all that fails us in our
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Mon Jul 25
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Tags: Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize, Tinkers
8.5/10 dropps Not only is Paul Harding’s Tinkers a debut novel, it is the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner. Not bad for an emerging writer, eh? We will be the judge of that! Let the judgement begin. Obligatory Book Synopsis- George
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Mon Jul 11
I’m Feeling Lucky:The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards
Tags: Douglas Edwards, Edwards, Google, Googleplex, I'm Feeling Lucky, Ink Dropp
I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee number 59, is an entertaining, teeth-gritting, and compelling account written by Google’s former “word guy” Douglas Edwards. An English major who spent several years building an established career in marketing, Edwards decided
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Wed Jun 29
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary By David Sedaris
Tags: A Modest Bestiary, David Sedaris, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Rating: 8/10 Dropps David Sedaris’ latest work, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, is an inventive, playful, and somewhat brazen attempt at the modern fable. The collection features sixteen stories with characters such as: migrating warblers, a vigilant rabbit, and
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Mon Jun 27
Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin
Tags: Eeeee Eee Eeee, Tao Lin
8.5/10 dropps Plotless novels* make the easiest reviews. Reviews of plotless novels should, so it seems, also be plotless. That means no one knows anything about your opinions on the novel because the novel itself has no real opinions. Points
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Thu Jun 2
Sam Lipsyte’s “The Ask”
7.5/10 dropps Sam Lipsyte’s funny, self-deprecating antihero Milo Burke is the center of the 2010 New York Times notable book of the year, The Ask. Milo, father to a precocious little boy named Bernie and the other half to
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Mon May 16
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Tags: Michael Lewis, The Big Short
8.9/10 dropps A recurring theme in Michael Lewis’ work is the idea of a winner emerging from a seeming no-win scenario. Lewis’ published books are mostly masterpieces of nonfiction, perfect for reading in airports. In Moneyball, Michael Lewis examined the
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Mon May 9
Jennifer Egan:A Visit From The Goon Squad
Tags: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
9.6/10 dropps To be as concise as possible: Jennifer Egan’s latest novel consists of thirteen loosely related short stories. Besides each voice being incredibly distinct and unique, the actual format within Egan’s wonderful novel is consistently experimented with. One chapter
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Wed Apr 27
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Tags: David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
8.5/10 dropps There is a palpably frustrating quality inherent in unfinished novels. But it would be fallacious to suggest that unfinished works of fiction are without merit; on the contrary: high school students have been suffering through Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
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