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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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| 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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| This feels like a story night for physics and philosophy majors high on bongloads of couch-lock weed. I have neither smoked enough weed or taken enough physics or philosophy courses for this. | |
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Michael Bourne
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| This is an excellent history of the late sixties. I'm not usually a fan of oral histories, which can feel a little scattered, but the author talked to so many of the important figures of the period and the book is edited so the stories dovetail beaut ...more | |
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Michael Bourne
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| As I read this novel, I imagined the thought bubble over the author's head reading, over and over, in ever enlarging text: "Look at me, how brilliant I am!" The opening chapter is riveting; after that, it's one long exercise in Lerner illuminating ho ...more | |
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| I'm a huge Michael Connelly fan, but this new one struck me as the weakest of his I've read. Maybe it's the fact that it leaves the city of LA and the city's police department, which together fuel all his previous books. Catalina sounds like a pretty ...more | |
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Michael Bourne
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| I feel like this is a case where the cultural moment has turned a meh book into a critical darling. The first half is a scene-for-scene retelling of Huck Finn, just with Jim as the narrator instead of Huck. And it's okay. He makes some valid points, ...more | |
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| This is really two books. One, which comprises maybe four of five essays at the beginning and end of the collection, is about Kushner herself and is pretty interesting. She's lived a wild life, the child of 60s hippies who lived for a time in a conve ...more | |
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Michael Bourne
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| I'm pretty close to a Tana French completist and this remains her best. I read it days after it came out in 201o, going off a rave review, and just reread it again this week. I do wish she had a more hands-on editor, as some scenes go a little long a ...more | |
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| Finishing this, I realized how rare it is for me to get to the very end of a book still fully engaged. So often, especially with thrillers and crime fiction, there comes a point when you figure out who's done what and then you have to kind of skim th ...more | |
