Total days reading it? Five or six.Īll I knew going into it was that two people who I respect were crazy about it, and that it was historical fiction about a great magician, so that's all I'm going to give you.
Then, I read it about 100 pages per day until I finished it this afternoon. I started it on the airplane before we took off, and read it for almost 6 straight hours. It was long enough to last a week, and was an actual book, so it wouldn't be a big deal if it got wet or sandy or vacationed on. Then, last year, my friend Ben gave it to me with a few other books for my 40th birthday, part of a collection he said were some of the best books he'd ever read.Īnne and I took a Secret Vacation, and I wanted something to read, so I brought this with me. I was intimidated by its length, so I put it on the shelf and never opened it. My friend Yuri gave me this book about 5 years ago. I'll just tell you what I knew before I went into it, which was pretty much nothing. Other reviews here go into the details of this wonderful novel, so if that's what you want, go read them. He lives in Los Angeles not with but adjacent to his girlfriend, in a duplex, the logistics of which are addressed in a 2018 Modern Love column for The New York Times. More recently, Gold co-wrote episodes of the stage show The Thrilling Adventure Hour and the podcast Welcome to Night Vale. He has written extensively about comics creator Jack Kirby, most notably for the Masters of American Comics and Comic Book Apocalypse museum show catalogues. He has also ventured into comic books, including The Spirit, featuring artwork by Eduardo Risso, and The Escapist, with artwork by Gene Colan.
Gold wrote a single 1997 episode of the cartoon show Hey Arnold. He has also published fiction, essays, memoir and reviews in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Playboy, Wired and Zyzzyva. Gold's short stories have appeared in a number of issues of McSweeney's. It’s likely the best memoir published in years." About it, Darin Strauss ( Half a Life, Chang and Eng) writes, "“ I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I’ve read in years. His most recent book is a memoir, I Will Be Complete (Knopf, 2018). His next novel, Sunnyside (Knopf, 2009), is a dark romp concerning Charlie Chaplin's rise to fame during World War I and its parallels with America's embrace of its part on the world stage. It has been translated into 14 languages. Glen David Gold is the author of Carter Beats the Devil (Hyperion, 2001), a historical novel about Charles Carter, a real-life San Francisco stage magician who performs for President Warren Harding on the evening of Harding's mysterious death.
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