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Gordon Hauptfleisch - Page 30
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 346
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 346
Gordon Hauptfleisch is a Blogcritics Books Editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer for the San Diego Union Tribune. For many years he worked in and managed bookstores and record stores. Email him and he'll stop talking in the third-person.
He's also an enigmatic visionary of unfathomable secrets and many a guise, or at least he plays one in his delusions of grandeur. Other than that he doesn't like talking about himself.
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“A life without darkness and sex and mystery is only half a life.” Genre-bending, interconnecting stories - mythic and prosaic - contain and convey a full one.
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CD Review: Unjustly Overlooked and Unloved Albums - Field Day by Marshall Crenshaw
More hooks and lyrical might than you could shake a skinny tie at. Crenshaw needed a big, unbridled production to contain it all.
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Book Review: Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
A fact-based novel tells of conjoined twins finding success while facing an “unremitting current of derision, gawking, and distaste that was our equilibrium.”
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CD Review: Poptopia! Power Pop Classics of the '70s, '80s, and '90s
Raspberries, Redd Cross, Romantics+Manic pop thrills=Pure Pop for Now and Then People.
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Book Review: The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living by Martin Clark
"Complications complicate things.” So does twirling a plastic spoon in a bowl of lukewarm milk and some “bluffing and feinting and Boris and Natasha" crap.
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CD Review: Unjustly Overlooked And Unloved Albums - The Beach Boys Love You (First in a Series)
Brian Wilson leaves bed to show the boys how to record a gloriously rough-edged classic. Then he goes back to bed.
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Book Review: Really Useful: The Origins of Everyday Things by Joel Levy
Now it can be told! The inspirations behind the innovations! How the old and disused became the new and improved!
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Book Review: Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
Ruminations among the ruins: two "interlocking pieces in a puzzle" roam Berlin after the tearing-down of the Wall, confronting deceit and disillusionment.
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Book Review: Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins
There's the book about the man who, thinking his posterior made of glass, always stood, fearing that if he sat, "he should break his bottom.”
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Book Review: Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
The author vividly and viscerally tells America's Civil Rights Movement "as I have lived it, observed it, heard stories and read about it."
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