July 4th, 2010 / 10:51 pm
Behind the Scenes

Take Two: Firework

Firework by Eugene Marten has one of the most amazing endings I have ever eyed in literature. I read the ending 3 times. Just the ending. It made me feel like a dropped doll or a foghorn playing Tupac or a person who couldn’t draw freehand at all except for horses, could do excellent horses, etc. Amazing. Please buy this book. It is short fuse, independent, G-string, and prayerful–a word people keep using on Facebook. After I read Marten I prayed he will write a similar book and I’ll be alive to read the glow.

But this isn’t about Firework. Rather fireworks. Ah, Scorch Atlas, that ear trumpet. That brushed steel mobile home. A sign of a good book is you can’t kill the thing…but I am stoic and persistent and dumb to criticism, like any good American.

Enjoy:

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7 Comments

  1. MG

      Yeah, fuck that book.

  2. MG

      Yeah, fuck that book.

  3. MG

      Yeah, fuck that book.

  4. Jordan

      Oh shit, new Eugene Marten? In the Blind was amazing. On this.

  5. Jordan

      Oh shit, new Eugene Marten? In the Blind was amazing. On this.

  6. Matthew Simmons

      The signature managed to remain! Powerful, powerful signature. Can resist fire.

  7. Matthew Simmons

      The signature managed to remain! Powerful, powerful signature. Can resist fire.