Humor
ForeWord Review - Conversations with Bob
January/05/2016 06:00 PM Filed: ForeWord Reviews
Catastrophic scenarios and dire predictions are often proven incorrect, an astounding historical phenomenon that Gentle explores in four creative interviews. This concise documented book is nonfiction with a fictional twist, placing the hero of this story in a time capsule that allows him to communicate with pessimists from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Knowledge is limited to the era in which we live. Consequently, determining what will happen in the next century, or even the next decade, may not be possible.
ForeWord Review - Henry First
January/06/2015 04:42 PM Filed: ForeWord Reviews
Fine cuisine and morbid excess create an exquisite word parfait in this sardonic look at the competitive world of gourmet cooking. Laced with potent dark humor, Lawrence’s entertaining yet often disturbing novel crosses the fine line drawn between satire and realism. This in-depth literary masterpiece is hardly based on mere competition, however, for lurking in its complex structure is a life-or-death punch.
ForeWord Review - Halfway to the Stars
December/18/2013 09:32 AM Filed: ForeWord Reviews
Curzon’s fictional memoir is a down-and-dirty look at San Francisco from the perspective of a jaded cable car gripman who has the finesse of a two a.m. nightclub performer. His humor will thrill an audience seeking entertainment untouched by editorial censors. This is stand-up comedy at its literary best, with controversial pieces included to strike the strongest blow where needed. In this brilliant work, the “equal opportunity offender” theory applies.
ForeWord Review - So L.A.
May/23/2013 10:20 AM Filed: ForeWord Reviews
Read this journal-style exploration of a grieving artist’s mind by an award-winning writer. In a candid, first-person story broken into lyrical entries, a flawed, beautiful heroine reinvents herself after the tragic rock-climbing death of her brother and the demise of her marriage.