Douglas Lain
Auteur de After the Saucers Landed
Œuvres de Douglas Lain
In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World (2015) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
Pick Your Battle: Your Guide to Urban Foraging, Hollywood Movies, Late Capitalism, and the Communist Alternative (a… (2011) 7 exemplaires
Noam Chomsky and the time box [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
Music Lessons 2 exemplaires
A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story 1 exemplaire
Resurfacing Billy 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1970
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Portland, Oregon, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Professions
- writer
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 263
- Popularité
- #87,567
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 20
Christopher Robin Milne, the son of A. A. Milne, is having a midlife crisis of sorts, and travels to France in 1968 to meet a French college student who sent him a mysterious letter. The student wants to subvert Milne's heritage and make him a figurehead of the May 1968 civil unrest, a major turning point on the road to Charles de Gaulle's resignation the next year. The student also wants to get back together with his on-and-off girlfriend, who is currently trying to live her life as if she were the lead character of Bonjour Tristesse, a 1954 novel by Françoise Sagan.
I am unfamiliar with Sagan's novel, the May 68 events and most of the real people sprinkled throughout Lain's novel, so a lot of that is lost on me. But I am familiar with the Milne and Pooh side of things, and that side was pure crap, so I don't doubt the French half is also.
I think this is the type of novel that would be quite enjoyed by the academics and critics satirized in The Pooh Perplex.
(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )… (plus d'informations)