I've heard of Westlake, but this is the first of his novels I remember reading. Turns out the good things I've heard about him are true. This novel is clever and witty, living comfortably on the border between goofy fun and deadly serious. I wouldn't say the plot is plausible, exactly, but the behavior of most of the characters mostly is. What happens is pretty much the consequences of a small moral/ethical slip, and things going wildly non-linear; to the extent there's a theme, that's mostly 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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