Fortune Cookies Reviews

Ghost World - Daniel Clowes

I sort of can't believe that Daniel Clowes has a penis and not a vagina.



A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

Fucking, hit me in the face with your metaphors why don't you.
 


The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry - Harold Bloom

I hate this book. Harold Bloom is an idiot.




The Real Thing -Tom Stoppard

Like a well-tailored suit.



Self Reliance and other Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talk about 'little minds.' What a contradictory piece of shit.



I Killed Adolf Hitler - Jason

A very subtle story of love, betrayal, and the pain of the passage of time told through a nearly slapstick story of a hit man traveling through time to assassinate Hitler.


Momo - Michael Ende

Someone bring this book back in print, for the love of god.

 

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me - Richard Farina

Wonderful wonderful wonderful wonderful wonderful!


Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

It is not unlike your first lover. Expect to have your heart broken.



Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis

Why did I read this?



Poor Sailor - Sammy Harkham

Subtle. Tragic. Beautiful. It made me cry.



The Road - Cormac McCarthy

I was bawling in the coffee shop when it was over.


Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

Duh.

-Sandra Markarian