Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lies we tell ourselves about the criminal justice system, and it kinda indirectly raises some of the questions some of the novels I've read the past few months have, about true crime as entertainment--I think this book is less opposed to it than some of those novels, just more skeptical about the magic of forensic science. The upshot: Judges should not be the ones deciding what scientific (or "scientific") evidence is admissible--they are, as it happens, really bad at it.
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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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