The Ticking Is the Bomb Lib/E (Audiobook)

from jadfair

I don't know what the other readers wanted from Nick Flynn. He is a poet, and with this work, like his poetry, much is left unsaid. No easy connections or neatly tied plotlines. I get having issues with a randomly plotted novel. This is a memoir, though, from a poet whose interior life would obvi...

from sweetiegherkin

Nick Flynn's unconventional memoir doesn't begin at the beginning and end at some arbitrary date, but rather jumps forward and backwards in time over and over again. By not organizing his thoughts chronologically, Flynn draws the reader to make connections that are not otherwise obvious or are no...

from Patrick311

There are a few books I'd like to mail to President Obama, not because I hope he'll read them and talk about them, and therefore get everyone else to read them (though that'd be nice) but because I think they say something about an important issue in a way that I simply can't. I could write Obama...

from astults

This is an unconventional memoir. Most memoirs focus on a specific aspect in a person's life and takes the reader on a chronological journey from Point A to Point B. Nick Flynn had parental problems while growing up, experienced New York pre- and post-9/11, and flew to the other side of the world...

from freemiki

this book is a memoir by poet/playwrigh/novelist nick flynn. it's an original, well written, often funny, occasionally painful memoir. it's loosely about his responses to post 9/11 torture by american troops/mercenaries and to his own impending fatherhood. i enjoyed the writing, the author knows ...