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Definitely a page turner, but I'm struggling to suspend disbelief. This premise is ridiculous.

Did the main character just get nostalgic about Americans waterboarding?!

There is not a single likeable or sympathetic character in this book.

I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones that seem to be related to her car stereo.

First the author makes up an Ivy League college, now law school apparently takes 2 years instead of 3?

The author goes on a long descriptive tangent of these 5 kinds of very fancy exclusive tea that a character is choosing between. Then when he chooses, the waiter opens the packet and retrieves... a tea bag.

Oh. Read by the author. Not a good call (Also, I didn't realize Tapper was a television personality when I picked up the book - it seems like that should better prepare someone to narrate an audiobook. I guess not.)

The reader of the audiobook isn't really adding to the experience for me, and Charlie's relationship with his wife feels way anachronistic.

I saw Iggy Pop in concert about 15 years ago, and the author's description of what he's like in concert is about right.

The British slang is making it really hard to follow the dialogue.

Puts some words around why I felt Getting to Yes was interesting, but didn't always feel realistic

She has read too many Agatha Christie novels. This is why I generally prefer police procedurals over amateur sleuths - the amateurs have no business getting mixed up in crime.

Is this book reads like a mashup of 3 different books.

Weird that he refers to the Grubstake being closed down. It was open and thriving when I lived in St in 2002-2005, and the book is set in 1987

"I note that Babbage couldn't even write about life insurance without opening with a career-torching rant denouncing everyone in the industry."

In my experience, many people who are successful in business *love* history. This is some weird stereotyping.

Wait... Where did the crocodile come from?

This is a romance novel for men.

The author just pointed out that American Airlines has a hub at DFW. This book is about 30% extraneous details.

This woman talks to her clothes.

Diana is dumber than a sack of hammers.

Vampires do yoga? Really?

I'm having a hard time picking a favorite story so far

Her food diary? Really?

The footnotes have stopped being amusing.

I feel old and very unhip.

Interesting overlap with "One Summer: America 1927" It's a good back to back combination

The end of the book is just as upsetting this time around as when I read it 15 years ago.

I wish the California Museum of Knitting Arts and Embroidery Sciences was a real place.

I can picture where the store must be... near City Lights in North Beach