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LISEY’S STORY, by Stephen King

September 18, 2007

35 I remember all the hype for this book when it dropped in hardcover last year: if I remember correctly, most, if not all, of it was through the roof. King even got interviewed by The Paris Review… a sure sign this “once-favorite target of critics, has been embraced by at least some in the [...]

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STONE CITY, by Mitchell Smith

August 30, 2007

34 Shhhhh. Be quiet. Can you hear that? It’s the sound of my heart breaking. I first caught wind of this book from Marcus Sakey over at the The Outfit. He had this to say about STONE CITY: … the book is astonishingly good. Achingly good. Painfully, how-the-hell-does-he-do-that good. I love Sakey’s debut novel… and [...]

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THE DARK RIVER, by John Twelve Hawks

August 24, 2007

33 I really loved THE TRAVELER. I thought it out-neuromanced NEUROMANCER. And because of that, I was eager to read THE DARK RIVER. Couldn’t wait. So, finally, I did read it. I was disappointed. I just didn’t think the story was that good. Too much exposition sometimes (kinda like Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom [...]

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KISS HER GOODBYE, by Robert Gregory Browne

July 31, 2007

32 I was quite eager to read this book after stumbling across Robert’s blog, called Anatomy of a Book Deal, several months back. The thing, it seemed, was still in edits and I was frothing over it. I have to say it’s not a bad debut thriller. Jack Donovan, a G-man on the hunt for [...]

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THE WHITE TOWER, by Dorothy Johnston

July 22, 2007

31 I didn’t finish this book. It didn’t pass my “100 pages” test… if it doesn’t grab me in a hundred pages, I stop reading it. I can’t put my finger on why this failed for me. The writing was great. I loved the premise. I think it didn’t pull me in because there wasn’t [...]

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GATES OF HADES, by Gregg Loomis

July 18, 2007

30 Coming on the heels of Barry Eisler’s REQUIEM FOR AN ASSASSIN, I was pleasantly surprised by this book… mostly because I didn’t expect it to be another non-official operative story. Jason Peters is an American living abroad—he’s also an assassin with a love of painting seascapes, his dog, and his anonymity. A former mid-level [...]

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