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Michael Bourne
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Born
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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| An American classic. The movie is great, but the book is even better. I've read it so many times it no longer scares me or creeps me out. I just reread it for the brilliant plotting and tight, smart prose. ...more | |
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| Tells an important story, but it's way too long. I get that she was trying to honor the victims and not make it a cut-and-paste true crime book, but man, all those back stories just weigh the story down. ...more | |
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Well-written, but so boring. Kind of a tone-poem about live in outer space, which might be cool at a page and a half. At book length, it's tedious beyond description. Not sure what to make of the Booker nod. Were there no other good books that year? ...more |
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Michael Bourne
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| Weird to read all the negative reviews. People keep saying it's pretentious. Why, because it focuses on people who care about books and ideas? Get a life, people. Some people care about sports, some people care about British baking shows, and some pe ...more | |
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Michael Bourne
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| First-rate true crime, well-researched, well-written, the kind of book that will make you furious at the public officials who let this innocent man rot in prison for 36 years and make you cry when he finally gets out and forgives the real murderer wh ...more | |
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Michael Bourne
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| The core story of the eco-terror attack in the woods, modeled very closely on the Earth Liberation Front actions in the late 1990s, is brilliant. If Powers had stuck to that, this would be one of the best books I've ever read, but there's all this OT ...more | |
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Michael Bourne
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I saw the cover and thought, Oh, this'll be a fun, zeitgeisty book about relationships, a sort of Modern Love column at book length. Which it sort of is. But I quickly learned why Modern Love columns are 1000 words, not 365 pages. The narrator breaks ...more |
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Michael Bourne
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| First, let me say that I loved the first 60-odd pages of this novel beyond all reason. I loved Cyrus, I loved his world, his humor, his friends, his battle with sobriety and its cliches, all of it. That scene where Cyrus and Zee chop wood for the per ...more | |
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Michael Bourne
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I saw the cover and thought, Oh, this'll be a fun, zeitgeisty book about relationships, a sort of Modern Love column at book length. Which it sort of is. But I quickly learned why Modern Love columns are 1000 words, not 365 pages. The narrator breaks ...more |
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