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A review by stewreads
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker
4.0
Weird little book framed as a conversation between two men, one of whom is planning to - can I say this? - assassinate George W. Bush.
Baker is the perfect author for something like this and one of the only writers who’d even attempt it. I really wonder how this book would feel if I had been reading it in 2004 - it reads well now that there’s some distance between myself and the historical events mentioned here, but did this feel too immediate/attention-seeking when it was published? Hard to tell.
I’m officially 2 books down in my COVID quarantine reading frenzy. On to the next one.
Baker is the perfect author for something like this and one of the only writers who’d even attempt it. I really wonder how this book would feel if I had been reading it in 2004 - it reads well now that there’s some distance between myself and the historical events mentioned here, but did this feel too immediate/attention-seeking when it was published? Hard to tell.
I’m officially 2 books down in my COVID quarantine reading frenzy. On to the next one.