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Well, a $12 price tag at Costco led me to pick up Martel's latest, Beatrice & Virgil - a interesting, surprising macabre tale of the Holocaust by way of an allegorical play concerning the interactions between a howler monkey, Virgil, and a donkey, Beatrice. Martel, for the most part, knows how to write some great prose. The first 100 pages, while I can see someone finding them boring, actually drew me in with the relative inaction of the storyline and the taxidermist's Beckett-lite play. Ho… read review

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A 2010 reading recap

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This list will follow the precepts of the Chapters’ online grading scheme, which I like, as it does not revolve around my judgement on quality (anything worthy of publishing is surely better than anything I myself—at this time, anyway—could produce) but on my personal experience with the work. Also, I should note that I have modified some of my previous scores for these novels.

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Matthew McCarthy

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An English major at Memorial University in St. John's, NL.
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Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), kickboxing, muaythai, boxing, submission grappling, reading, drinking, partying, indie rock, reggae, solitude
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Atonement, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Corrections, The Crying of Lot 49, Disgrace, The Favourite Game, Lolita, Midnight's Children, Mrs Dalloway, Portnoy's Complaint, The Remains of the Day, Song of Solomon, White Noise
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Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Memento, Fight Club, American History X, Trainspotting, Eastern Promises, Requiem For a Dream, No Country For Old Men, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Silence of the Lambs, Blood Diamond, Into the Wild
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Philip Roth, Ian McEwan
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"To quote" is a verb; a "quotation" is a noun. Chapters should know better.
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Eleanor Thompson says:

Thanks Matthew and good luck with your English major; I really miss university. I see you are doubly lucky in that you are living in Newfoundland.
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Strongly recommend Chabon's Adventures of Cavalier and Clay. One of the best books I have read in last 10 years. I have read almost all of his stuff, oddly his best know Wonder Boys is only one left in my TBR pile.

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