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Michael Bourne
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New York City, The United States
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August 2021
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Blithedale Canyon
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We Bring You an Hour of Darkness
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American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
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| The first half of this book, about Cohn's involvement with the Rosenberg case and the McCarthy hearings, is riveting. I've read many accounts of that era so I didn't learn all that much that was new, but still Cohn was such a fascinating figure in th ...more | |
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| Curious book. The story is slow, really slow, like standing at the window watching the snow fall while pondering your life choices slow. And the mechanics of the plot, once it does get going, feel at times amateurish. The big mystery that opens the b ...more | |
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| I will admit that this book made me cry. Halfway through, I was asking myself why I was reading this book full of letters from this cranky old lady, but by the end her redemption had me leaking from the eyes. I would agree with the critics who say Sy ...more | |
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I'm honestly a little surprised this has become such a beloved book. Its scope is truly colossal and Verghese is a world-class storyteller, but man, is this thing ever too long. The book sprawls so much that I lost the thread repeatedly. I'm glad I fi ...more |
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| I love Colson Whitehead and love this series. This one felt a little slower and more introspective than the first two, and it dragged in places for me. Not much, just a little here and there. Still, Ray Carney is a tremendous creation and it's imposs ...more | |
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| Jess Walter is a national treasure. That is all. | |
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| I liked this more than I was expecting to. Johnson is an interesting woman, more interesting in some ways than the famous men around her. She has grit and perserverance while Kerouac and the others surrender to their appetites. | |
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| Not bad, but kind of all over the place. There's Civil Rights Era flashbacks, a big longshoreman's strike, the Houston oil industry, plus another half dozen minor sideplots. Locke brings it all together at the end, sort of, but it's a lot for one boo ...more | |
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| I truly loved the first three quarters of this book, before it faded in the last lap. I love the New Yorkness of the book and also that it's a book about a woman's unapologetic hungers. The young woman in the book just wants to eat the world - food, ...more | |
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| I'm mystified by the mixed reviews on this book. I've been a little disappointed by Rachman's other books, which have been uneven at best, but this is a small piece of perfection - funny, charming, and smart about people and the newspaper business. R ...more | |