Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 347
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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Book Review: Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
"The story of a sewer rat made worse" ricochets page-to-page with passion and compassion, from the rhapsodic to Rabelaisian, from dark to darkly-humored.
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Insult ‘n’ Roll: My Top 11 Put-Down Songs In Rock
Morons, Idiots, Stupid Men, Small-Brained Dinosaurs, Cowards. Not exactly terms of endearment.
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Book Review: The Coffee Trader by David Liss
Not the same old grind: Beans, business, and Byzantine plots--for those who take a little 17th-century mystery and economic history with their coffee.
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My Top 11 Best Closing Song Lines In Rock
"And in the closing stages/ The adoration you appropriate/ Is equivalent in regard to the adoration you generate"...hmmm--Nah!
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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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