Not a review per se this time, but something much more entertaining. The online Morning News is currently in the throes of its fourth annual Tournament of Books and like previous years, this year promises to be a bloody battle to the end. In round 1, Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke smoked Ovenman by Jeff Parker to take the first victory. Personally, I see the final pairing as Tree of Smoke versus wonderkid Junot Diaz's Oscar Wao, but it's anyone's guess what the zombie round will do this year's brackets. Will What the Dead Know carry the banner for honest-to-goodness genre fiction? Or will the witty Then We Came to the End take on its stiff competition to emerge victorious and claim the (real live) Rooster? Obviously, I'm probably getting more excited about this than it actually warrants, but it's still a highly recommended diversion from the workday grind.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
The tourney is on.
Not a review per se this time, but something much more entertaining. The online Morning News is currently in the throes of its fourth annual Tournament of Books and like previous years, this year promises to be a bloody battle to the end. In round 1, Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke smoked Ovenman by Jeff Parker to take the first victory. Personally, I see the final pairing as Tree of Smoke versus wonderkid Junot Diaz's Oscar Wao, but it's anyone's guess what the zombie round will do this year's brackets. Will What the Dead Know carry the banner for honest-to-goodness genre fiction? Or will the witty Then We Came to the End take on its stiff competition to emerge victorious and claim the (real live) Rooster? Obviously, I'm probably getting more excited about this than it actually warrants, but it's still a highly recommended diversion from the workday grind.
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