This seemed as though it was going to be an interesting novel, looking kinda askance at what life might be like if aliens showed up, then left without doing anything. What it turned out to be was 400 pages of characters slightly more annoying than nails on a chalkboard, random happenings with only the vaguest internal connections, and at the end a message about friendship and family and love.
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The Far Edges of the Known World by Owen Rees
A really interesting book, lots of information in it. It's amazing how vast trade networks were in antiquity--and maybe technically ea...
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A beautiful novel about life as a mobster (in 1940s Tampa) and all the contradictions and complications of it. Lehane clearly has an ear f...
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Well, this was a bit of a disappointment. Not *horrible*, but a bit bland. and with stakes that in the end seemed abruptly lower--in the s...
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This is an interesting and very amusing book. Not goofy-funny like Christopher Moore or Terry Pratchett, but still soaked in humor. One of...

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