This was a reasonably pleasant read, if a distinctly gonzo one. It's probably not a book to take all that seriously, or at least to question its plausibility; while it'll give your suspension of disbelief a workout, it's pretty forthright about the nature of what it's doing. You know what you're in for pretty quickly, and that's pretty much what you get: Various sorts of bad people come to various sorts of bad ends, with various digressions through Florida's history and culture, and occasional fourth-wall-breaking. The frequent laugh-out-lout moments tend to come from unexpected angles, at unexpected times, and do a good job of balancing the sometimes over-the-top violence.
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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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