"Recently for those cold chilly November nights, I recently picked up the novel "The Boy Who Said 'Blah Blah Blah' Continuously." I admit to being a
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Qale (aka Qale)
Oct 24 '08, 12:07
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little skeptical at the audacious title, but then again, I've always been a sucker for coming of age stories.
New author, Mara, opens her story with a minimal setting. There's no great foreboding forest, no haunted vacant house down the street, and the novel is scarcely populated with other characters.
This proves to be a great relief and a pleasant change of pace from the break-neck speed of many of my summer novels I only read because everyone else told me I had to.
The plot really heats up when the title character changes from saying blah blah blah continuously to saying blah blah blah nearly continuously. It is daring for an author to change the concept at such a pivotal point in the narration.
It works splendidly.
Not only did the boy who continuously say blah blah warm my heart, I believe he changed who I believed I was.
Please, pick up this curious 50,000 word piece by Mara. It will really renew your spirits in these trying times.
--Jonathan is the author of "Later, Skater" and "Pixiesticks" and runs a blog about Japanese anime penes. This is his first piece of Slacker Talk Radio.
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