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is on page 179 of 464
“Let’s just say it wasn’t a Norman Rockwell painting”
WAY too knowing — it’s 1944, Rockwell was known as an illustrator who did magazine covers. This is an elbow in the ribs of the reader, when “It wasn’t the cover of the Saturday Evening Post” would’ve sufficed.
— Oct 04, 2025 03:35AM
WAY too knowing — it’s 1944, Rockwell was known as an illustrator who did magazine covers. This is an elbow in the ribs of the reader, when “It wasn’t the cover of the Saturday Evening Post” would’ve sufficed.
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Campbell Andrews
is on page 239 of 464
beginning of a chapter: “The early 1950s were a good time to be ambitious and privileged in America.” Mr. Ryan, this is a NOVEL — not a middle-school social studies textbook.
— Oct 05, 2025 06:49AM
Campbell Andrews
is on page 204 of 464
this reads like a novel written by instruction, a kit you can buy at the hobby store. it’s paint-by-numbers.
— Oct 04, 2025 04:01AM
Campbell Andrews
is on page 187 of 464
for every incisive insight (“He’d become a guest in his own life”, page 185) there’s an anachronism (“it became clear that they were all… fighting to protect a way of life that didn’t include everyone back home”, page 187)
— Oct 04, 2025 03:53AM
Campbell Andrews
is on page 135 of 464
there’s something of Amor Towles here but the sex is telegraphed and the attitudes often anachronistic
— Sep 30, 2025 10:21AM
