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2. Authors I've Never Read Before
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. Jamestown - Matthew Sharpe
3. Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin
4. The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho
5. Hunger's Brides - Paul Anderson
6. Until I Find You - John Irving
7. Wh ... I ordered a few books off of my wishlist at Amazon. Two came today; Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe, and Solo Guitar Playing by Frederick Noad. I had been considering adding Jamestown to my "to be read" list, but I can't make up my mind! I might give it a try this summer. 28) Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe (review) #38 - LouisBranning - I am glad you enjoyed Jamestown. I am only about 70 pages in and I was not prepared to be chuckling so much. Sharpe's humor reminds me of Michael Chabon's stuff. I will let you know what I think of it once done. 36: Jamestown was another of my favorite books last year, and loved the 'voice' of Pocahontas. Having finished Marley and Me, I am off to read some dystopian fiction - Jamestown: a novel by Matthew Sharpe. ... many references to some of my favorite things.
The Welsh Girl was beautiful and I thought very satisfying as well.
Jamestown would probably have been a stand-out in another month, I enjoyed that one too. You know, when I saw this first with Jamestown, I assume it was a private user since there was only one. So I went to look at a book that had a lot more users - no help, but strange coincidence.
Suggest that to avoid stupid posts like mine in the future we put a nice half-star followed by "priv ... ... all ratings (including half-star increments) are shown correctly except for one-half of one star. See, for example, Jamestown or The diamond age. I want to see who hated them most! 25. Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
Weird but wonderful. I'm at the halfway point! What next? I can't get into Jamestown: A Novel for some reason. I'm kind of disappointed because I thought it was going to be really good. I'll probably return it to the library and try it again some other time.
Meanwhile, I've started Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorc ... ... are two of the best novels of the year you're working on there, and I especially loved Pocahontas's different voices in Jamestown: A Novel too. I should finish Then We Came to the End this week, then I'll start Jamestown: A Novel. ... To The End - Joshua Ferris
3. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda N. Adichie
4. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
5. Jamestown - Matthew Sharpe I finished Matthew Sharpe's Jamestown the other day and have already posted it on my Profile page as one of my favorite books of the year. It's a bloody and blackly comic re-imagining of the story of the founding of Jamestown that all takes place in some fractured post-apocalyptic future, ... Matthew Sharpe's surprising new novel Jamestown is a blackly comic and ultra post-modern retelling of the story of the settling of Jamestown, and though it's all set in some fractured, post-apocalyptic future, it still includes the familiar characters Pocahontas, John Rolfe, and John Smith, ...
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