I read this book this evening, and it really wasn't anything like as good as the O'Connor, or any of six other books I've read this month. Cluttered and muddled, with a deeply deranged unreliable narrator powering twist after twist after stupid twist. It would probably have been a mercy if I'd stopped when she used "epitaph" when she meant "epigraph." That should have been a sign ...
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Last Exit by Max Gladstone
This is a fantasy novel that has, that I can see, bits of stuff like Zelazny's Amber books and King and Straub's The Talisman (a...
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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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