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Title: I Pass Like Night by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 0-671-03426-X Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Apple with a Razor Blade
Comment: There is a real sweetness about Jonathan Ames' writing. Like Richard Brautigan, he uses simple sentence structures that allow us to experience incredible events with a sense of wonder. The sexual subject matter juxtaposed with the innocence of the writing style generates a creative tension which illuminates the inner conflict between Alexander, the main character, and the world he inhabits. The image Ames uses is of Halloween and finding the apple with the razor blade in it. Ultimately, that is the universal characteristic we experience that makes the material accessible, the incredibly human experience of having the good and the bad, the perfect and the imperfect, combined. I'm glad both "I Pass Like Night" and "The Extra Man" are out in paperback and am looking forward to Ames' new book "What's Not to Love." I wonder how he might write a female protagonist. Ames is fresh and well-written. Enjoy the apple but watch out for the razor blade!
Rating: 4
Summary: What's Not to Love About This Book?
Comment: well i have just finished a lengthy fan letter to Mr. Ames thanking him for all the literary treasures he has graced me with. I Pass Like Night is not unlike his other stories in which the central characters (seemingly based on Ames himself) all share a certain role of the loney, self-depracating, pathetic, and perverted young man. But whilst you are deep into the scattering experiences of Alexander Vine, Night's main character,you notice that nothing has really been started or solved. there is no real story here but a collection of character experiences that have made Mr. Vine somewhat of an adult child just wanting to be saved. Like all of Ames writing that i find to hold the feeling of perversion and lonlieness while still being comical, this is definitly a heavier work that depicts the life of a character who is lost and never quite found in NYC. I Pass Like Night is appropriately titled as well ,as Mr. Vine seems to survive by floating in and out of each experience totally aware that he is not much more than a mere existance. This is a wonderful book that feels for the lost souls.
Rating: 5
Summary: "In Our Time"...of our time
Comment: All of the sexual inconsistencies of Ames' first-person narrators form a collective metaphor for the human condition, at least the part that's honest enough to admit it: we're all just as curious about, and inconsistent with, our sexuality at some point between puberty and death. Ames' narrators are simply refusing to follow the popular and convenient trend of bracketing sexuality...
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Title: What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 0375726497 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 1560253754 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Extra Man: A Novel by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 0671015583 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Choke: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385720920 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:Finding Nemo ASIN: B00005JM02 Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $20.99 |
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