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Jesus' Son: Stories
by Denis Johnson
from Picador
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Some of the most brilliant prose you can ever hope to find 
Although Denis Johnson's JESUS' SON is often compared to Charles Bukowski, I think this is profoundly unfair to Johnson; he is a far better writer. The two writers feature similar characters in their stories, but Johnson has a gift for language that has seldom been seen. His is the art of the perfect sentence, the perfect, surprising, shocking word.
The stories are very, very loosely linked stories that could well feature the same narrator. A couple of the stories reference events in early ones, and... more info
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OK, but not as good as i had heard 
I had heard that this was some seminal work in the history of literature. Maybe that's because i was living in Iowa City at the time, or maybe some people just like stories of guys getting F'd up. I for one wasn't very satisfied. It read like a million little pieces if written by a junior high student.
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Children of loneness
In Denis Johnson's stunning collection of short stories "Jesus' Son", there is an image that stays with you most of the time. This is the picture of loneness and desolation. In one of the best tales, called "Emergency", the main character whose name goes by FH and a friend drive through the country. They eventually find a drive-in. But the weather is awful and there is no one in there - even though there is a movie being played. Johnson's description of this place is the combination of beauty and... more info
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Just Not Sure
I tried to like this collection, and there were moments, some pretty dog-gone good ones, but there were other moments, lots of them, where I wanted to wing the book across the room and say, "You're kidding me! This is the stuff that has folks yakking for ten years now?" There's a lot of the stuff of the novice writer in here, pages and pages of it... In a literary sense, the book remeinds me of a kid who comes down a Sunday morning to the stale remnants of his parents' wild party and smokes a pretzel and... more info
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