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Talk Talk

by T.C. Boyle

All right, I finally finished this one. About halfway through I realized it had the potential to be a huge stinker, and I'm sorry to say that was borne out. While T.C. Boyle is a very good writer--The Tortilla Curtain is a work of the hig...

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Coraline

by Neil Gaiman

Tremendous book from start to finish. It made me into an instant Neil Gaiman fan. I'd seen the movie before reading the book, and thought it was really good if a bit overdrawn. Now I know why: the screenwriter (Gaiman didn't write the sc...

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

One of the great books of the 20th century. Mailer's sentences are spare and deadly serious, like Hemingway's. It doesn't feel like a thousand plus pages.

The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

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