This book was recommended to me by my wife, and I can very much mostly see why she found it so powerfully compelling (and/or compellingly powerful). I really didn't. The characters didn't do much for me--especially not the narrator, who doesn't seem to me anything like as clever as she and/or the author think she is. The blurbs make it sound like a mystery, and it kinda starts out that way, but the sound of axes on sharpening wheels eventually becomes deafening. I had hopes, but it was nearly four hundred pages of underwhelm.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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