The Golden Gizmo
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Rated 5 starsWild and Innovative, Rollicking and Real
This book has the breakneck pace of a Lee Child novel minus the predictability, with ecstatic prose and outré plot twists and turns that take you to the dark and funny edges of the everyday world. "Breakfast With the Ones You Love" is smart and real and filled with Fintushel's unique response to life, love, mysticism, the humor and pathos of the unknowable. It's one of my chosen of the chosen of the chosen books for 2007...
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Rated 5 starsPancakes and Death Rays
Disclaimer: the author used to be married to my sister. He happens to be a wonderful human being, a talented actor, master of the theremin, teaches drama to incarcerated youth, and an all-round mensch, besides being the author of this dazzling, touching and hysterically funny novel Breakfast With the Ones You Love. I brought "Breakfast" on my summer vacation in Arkansas, and I just devoured it. It puts me in mind of Philip...
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Rated 5 starsAn outstanding first novel
I picked this up at the library on a whim, and read it cover-to-cover in one afternoon, stopping only to go get kleenex. There are surprises in every chapter, and the main character, Lea, grows more human on every page. She is so easy to identify with, as she develops the kind of all-encompassing teenage love most of us have felt...but not necessarily for the man who will bring the Messiah! You wonder at first if Jack,...
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Rated 5 starsMy first encounter with Science Fiction..and I loved it
I am not a science fiction reader AT ALL but I picked up BREAKFAST and couldn't put it down. The characters are addictive and the imagery is amazing. I loved the ideas, the stories and side plots and mostly Lea and her world. I was so impressed with the clever writing that never condescended and never distracted. This is a talented author full of light and endless ideas. I laughed out loud and I also cried a bit. It...
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Rated 5 starsChock full of delightful surprises.
This is an amazing book, and I don't even like science fiction! I was hooked from the first paragraph, and by the time I was half way through, I realized it wasn't just the crazy but very seductive plot; it was Lea, who was slowly transforming from someone dangerously bazarre into a complex and very sympathetic human being. And by the end it was apparent that this book, along with being really fun to read, is also a sensitive...
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