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Gordon Hauptfleisch - Page 32
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 343
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 343
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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CD Review: The Kink Kronikles by The Kinks
"Just in case someone thought they had missed it," and in case someone needs a reminder of why Ray Davies' upcoming solo release matters.
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Book Review: Lipstick And Other Stories by Alex Kuo
Vignettes of contemporary China, hopscotching from philosophical ruminations and political fulminations, to more personal "rubble."
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And I Quote: Some Favorite Movie Lines, With Gravy
"Son, you got a panty on your head."
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Book Review: That Old Ace In The Hole by Annie Proulx
Texas Panhandle survival takes someone "half cow and half mesquite and all crazy." But maybe that's just what Bob Dollar wants you to think...
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And They Lived To Tell The Retail Tales...
Fear and Loathing, Retail-ian and Orwellian: "A book about talking animals? I'm so sure!" said the Honors English student, looking for something "thin."
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Review: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
An absorbing historical saga of South and Southeast Asia pits the yearning for freedom against formidable forces of despots and deep-rooted dispute.
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Book Review: Double Vision by Pat Barker
Nerve-racked journalist seeking a way out of spending "the rest of my life trotting off to other people's wars," finds refuge but no easy outs.
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Book Review: The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
Tired of living vicariously through his delusions, a young Russian looks for love and riches in all the wrong places.
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Book Review: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World by A. J. Jacobs
Doing the unthinkable for a kitchen-sink-and-all account about reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Come along for the ride, from point a-ak to point zywiek.
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Book Review: John Henry Days by Colin Whitehead
The past is past, the present one big deadline, thinks a journalist covering a backwater gig--until the forces of history and hope intervene.
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