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Being There
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Kosinski must have had a crystal ball, because it is all to apparent this story could easily be applied today. Given this political year, I have to recommend this book to anyone who watches the talking heads on television. The main character, Chance, is the epitome of every "expert" on t.v.. We swallow the bitter pill of platitudes and opinions everyda... »
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The Painted Bird (Kosinski, Jerzy)
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Many writers have portrayed the cruelty people inflict upon each other in the name of war or ideology or garden-variety hate, but few books will surpass Kosinski's first novel, The Painted Bird, for the sheer creepiness in its savagery. The story follows an abandoned young boy who wanders alone through the frozen bogs and broken towns of Eastern... »
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Steps (Kosinski, Jerzy)
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I am a Kosinski fan. I like his writing and enjoy reading his books. This one though, to be quite frank, was just a bit too much for me. Now don't take me wrong, I still feel the writing skills were present. This author can indeed write. I just could not for the life of me get into the subject matter. Rape, sexual degradation, beastiality and on a... »
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Blind Date (Kosinski, Jerzy)
Kosinski has always been one of my favorite authors since I started reading him in the mid 1970s. This work, like most of his books (A Painted Bird comes... »
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Cockpit (Kosinski, Jerzy)
Few books have made me as irritated as "Cockpit," as Kosinki episodically unravels one nightmare after another. There is just a minimal spine to hold the... »
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The Devil Tree
The format is unusual having no chapters but rather a series of short vignetts in first and third person voices with no set sequence as to their inclusion... »
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Pinball (Kosinski, Jerzy)
This book demontrates what many people claim to be true, that the polish socialite had the most famous of his books, the painted bird, ghost written for h... »
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