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Adam Ross
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Mr. Peanut
   3.27 avg rating — 2,127 ratings
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2010
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18 editions
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Ladies and Gentlemen
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"Loving this so far. It's nearly a guilty pleasure, an wonderfully pleasurable and easy read, an outsider's insider take on working with real chefs and great talents. Highest compliments I can pay it: 1. It makes me hungry. 2. It makes me want to lear...more
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| Almost halfway through. I could stop reading this book now--Salter's flying jets in Korea--and it would already be one of the greatest memoirs I've ever read. You can't even praise his writing. It would be like praising existence or breathing. It's t...more | |||||||||||
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| What can I say? This is easily one of the greatest novels I've ever read. Just read it, and then go read A Sport and a Pastime. And then Dusk and Other Stories and then Last Night. Afterward, you'll understand why Salter's a writer's writer. Because...more | |||||||||||
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This has all the trappings of a good mystery or procedural. It starts with a man who is apparently enamored of his wife of 13 years but who is plagued by random thoughts (fantasies?) of her death. Next thing you know she is dead and he's the prime... " Read more of this review » |
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“You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.”
― Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut
― Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut
“A man who loves his mother too much is someone who can never love his wife enough.”
― Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut
― Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut
“It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at sea and there was no guarantee of rescue.”
― Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut
― Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut
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