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down and dirty. loved it. will read more.
Well written, but not my thing. A frustrating read.
In my humble opinion this is Dan's best. It takes you straight into the harrowing world of telemarketing and doesn't let you go. A lean, spare master at the top of his form, not a wasted word in here.
ead the STOP SMILING interview with author Dan FanteQ&A: Dan FanteBy Anthony ReynoldsNovelist, playwright and poet Dan Fante is the second son of John Fante.He is well regarded in Europe and his novels include Mooch, Chump Change and Spitting off Tall BuildingsStop Smiling: As both a novelist and a screenwriter, what are the main similarities between the processes? And what are the major differences?Dan Fante: I don't mean to be overly unkind here, but screenwriting is a process quite unlike leg...
great!
MY Favorite Dan Fante book. In a world filled with boring books and boring authors. Dan Fante is a welcome relief. Takes you inside the world of telemarketing and alcoholism. The book is really about hustling and what people do each other. A very American story. The most important thing is Fante is never boring. All the warts of human soul are illuminated in his writing. Can't recommend this book any higher. Read all his books.
Mooch
decent. more of the same. quick read. full of despair and other feelings.
By far Dan Fante's best book, Mooch contains Bukowski-like content with a writing style similar to his father. A quick and easy book to read.
Dan Fante, hijo de uno de mis autores favoritos, John Fante, signo que tal vez lo identifica pero que puede llegar a ser un estigma al no evitar compararlo con el padre. Sin embargo, no desilusiona mis expectativas y, dejando a un lado las comparaciones, me encantó este libro. Una novela llena de alcohol, ilusiones, desilusiones, amor, desamor y sexo. Tal vez de esta forma no sea la mejor para realizar una reseña del libro, pero en pocas palabras es un gran libro, esta vez podemos encontrar un D...
CHINASKI!!
More solid Buk-ness from Dan Fante. Enjoyable rolling around in the ashes stuff. Bang on characterizations, and jaw droppingly good dialogue. Entertaining angry man books. Relishing the final two, to be read in the next few days.
Probablemente lo hubiera disfrutado más de no haber leído justo antes Chump Change, porque de esta forma me pareció más de lo mismo, ya que las dos historias guardan unas cuantas similitudes. Lo recomiendo, pero si se tiene la intención de leer Chump Change, mejor dejar algo de margen entre ambos.
LA HERENCIA DE LOS MALDITOSEn Mooch, Dan Fante va mucho más allá de sus homenajes y reivindicaciones de Bukowski, cummings, Carver y de su propio padre, John Fante. Se ha liberado del peso que ha dejado vertido en las páginas de Chump Change y, ahora, puede desencadenar una trama propia que evoluciona efervescente e hipnótica. Evidentemente, sigue habiendo mucho en Dan Fante de los autores anteriormente enumerados, pero ahora su trabajo abandona ese estilo de patchwork literario, ya no es un Fra...
Wow! A brilliant, passionate explosion of a novel. It fizzes on every page. We follow the fortunes of Bruno Dante, a recovering alcoholic and what happens when he meets the devastatingly beautiful and smart, but full of problems, Jimmi Valiente and many other fascinating characters. I read this book 13 years ago and happened to jot down my thoughts on it. The characters have stayed with me to this day but I'd forgotten the title until I found my 'books I've read' notebook. This novel is all sens...
recovering alkie falls for recovering lapdancer, dt's return, vomit, ....twist at the end
”There are no good guys or bad guys in the squalid corners and soul-destroying office spaces of Fante’s Southern California--the struggle between good and evil goes on entirely inside his hero Bruno Dante’s head. The doomed son of a doomed father, Bruno careens perilously through life, always on the verge of that last irredeemable fuck-up. It’s breathtaking writing and deliciously excruciating, like watching a crack-smoking circus knife-thrower--you just KNOW something awful will happen.Once you...
Brilliant and beautiful read that kept my fingers flipping the pages until the end. The most honest thing I have read in a while. The words were incredibly emotional and jarring and had me gripped from the beginning to the end. It had the perfect balance or sadness, happiness, pain, suffering, hope and raunchiness that any brilliant piece should have. It ended with a sad note that left me wondering what will come next. I dear say that he writes just as brilliantly as his father did. Similar to a...
i liked this even better than 'chump change'. need to reread this sometime soon.
At the end of Chump Change I wondered if Fante would be able to keep up the pace for 3 more semi-autobiographical novels. I also wondered whether I could keep up if in fact he did. Now having read them in close succession I can say that he’s kept it interesting without wearing me out. Bruno Dante continues to be a serial juicer with a masochistic edge and a deep dislike of people. With women, his relationships (if they can be called that) are cruel and dehumanizing, almost as bad as the jobs he