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Detective story for highbrow readers, quick read & enjoyable... Charles Latimer is an academic turned detective novelist, vacationing in Turkey when he stumbles upon the supposedly-closed case of Dimitrios (fig-packer turned pimp turned assassin turned heroin smuggler turned bank director). Latimer becomes curious about doing real detective work, thus embarks...
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Penguin is releasing 6 classics without covers, but with art-quality paper so that the budding artist in all of us can create our own covers....
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Found this a bit bland; the mother succumbs to morphine haze while her sons and husband get progressively drunker. Jamie, the oldest brother, admits to wishing ill of his brother, Edmund, who has consumption and is about to enter a sanatorium for 6 months. Tyrone, the tightwad father, always yammering...
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Quick girlie read; slightly heaving chest & perfumed hankie, slightly good writing. The narrator (always a woman), reveals her taste for bad boys, cowboys, and at the end, an affair with a woman never consummated. It all seems superficial, looking back over the pages. Cheating men & empty promises &...
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Diary
by lz in Reading Archive on 13Nov2006
Bizarre tale, well written. My head is spinning, the dizzying tales of Misty & Peter who meet in art school, she not turned off by his pinning fake jewelry through his skin, a different hole every day to maximize the sensation. Waytansea Island is where Peter lures Misty, pregnant (after...
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Yes, yes, yes. Another amazing book of short stories... I am gobbling these down like red hots, burning my tongue on the tales and reveling in the great writing. The sad tale of Bonanza, where Jo succumbs to the sadness of her grandmother's stale life, realizing that they have empty,...
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Shudderingly good book of short stories. Each story is told from the 1st person perspective: the woman who lusts after the lawn boy and swallows him when they kiss (cum shooting from her mouth at the dinner table after he masturbates inside her!); the pudding that sits on the kitchen...
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Guest Shot
by lz in Reading Archive on 01Nov2006
Beach reading, the kind that works best after a few pina coladas and a game of horseshoes and it's the last book in your pile to read. Gradually got more and more into it as the plot unfolded. I must register a complaint that the author didn't reveal the jury's...
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