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  <title><![CDATA[A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Hand]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt; With novels like &lt;i&gt;Mystic River&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Shutter Island&lt;/i&gt;, Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller&amp;#8212;while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume&amp;#8212;two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of suspense featuring the private eye duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro&amp;#8212;brilliantly showcasing the unique voice and dark, exhilarating vision of a crime fiction phenomenon. &lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dennis Lehane]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whoever made the decision to publish these two novels in one volume--congratulations to you.  These two novels make an excellent &quot;double feature&quot;, the first two stories in Lehane's five-novel-long private detective series.<br/><br/>&quot;A Drink Before the War&quot; introduces Patrick Ke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53595500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoy the Lehane books but only the ones with Patrick Kenzie as the main character.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Man, this was a good read! After watching GONE BABY GONE and rewatching MYSTIC RIVER, I was very excited to start reading Lehane and starting here, with his first novel. It introduces Patrick Kenzie and Angela Genarro (from GBG) in a story about poverty, race relations, gang violence, domestic abuse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29931251">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 01 19:21:55 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently purchased (6.30.08).  Listened, not long ago, to an audiobook of Shutter Island--so good!  Lehane also wrote Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, both adapted into excellent films...I didn't realize, though, until shopping for his books, that the main charaters from Gone Baby Gone are repeating...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26071378">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent page turners from Lehane, though not as good as the other stuff I've read of his, Mystic River and Gone, Baby Gone. Both of those felt a little more grounded and not as genre driven as these two. However, the best part of both of these is that they were fantastic page turners I couldn't pu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26967370">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 21 20:44:27 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe if I had read this Dennis Lehane first, I would have liked it.  Unfortunately, I read it after reading a bunch of his other books.  It's a first novel, and it shows.  Also, we get it:  Patrick wants to fuck Angie, and thanks for the blatantly obvious foreshadowing.  Yawn.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The really fun thing about this book is that it's two Dennis Lehane novels in one volume, following the same two detectives through two different cases.  Dennis Lehane's writing is so easy to read, and so engaging that it's hard to put his books down!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[FANTASTIC series!  This compilation that contains 2 books is an awesome start to a series by Dennis Lehane.  I read the entire series in less than 2 weeks.  I credit them with giving back my love of reading!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i thoroughly enjoyed both of these novels by lehane, though i think &quot;mystic river&quot; is still my favorite. of the two, i found &quot;darkness, take my hand&quot; more engrossing. i simply couldn't put it down. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Solid suspense-mystery series set in Boston begins here. I've enjoyed every one of Lehane's books. Crisp writing and clever plotting drive the stories. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read the first book...it was pretty okay...not that interested in the 2nd book...]]></body>
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