The Easy Chain
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The Easy Chain
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4.17 of 5 stars
--So what's the book about?
--It about this British guy who goes to The University of Chicago?
--Nah. And it really isn't about his getting... read full description

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Nov 06, 2011
karen rated it: 4 of 5 stars
quick edit three years later to say that i love that when you look up "easy chain" here on goodreads, the second-place match is "the holy bible" by anonymous. pretty perfect, since evan dara is my anonymous deity, and his books are my bibles. meaning, "they give me my faith, but i probably haven't read them as thoroughly as i should." but i digress.

evan dara is not for everyone, but he is one of my all-time favorites. which of course means all of his boo More...
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Aug 28, 2009
Jeff rated it: 5 of 5 stars
- well it's really something way beyond what anybody expe-

-it was and, yes, it did but don't let anybody tell you that this one has the glare suggested by...what? by last chances, or, no. It's the pages that are blank I'm talking about.

-But the book is more than that. This one somehow manages to glow from within, whereas the last scrapbook he wrote don't touch it at all like that. No, no. I'm only comparing to suggest what should be obvious. Dara

-Dara pops, More...
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Nov 25, 2008
Eugene rated it: 3 of 5 stars
THE LOST SCRAPBOOK debuted dara's original technique of narrative splicing–a kind of collage work done in series, rather than in space. THE EASY CHAIN operates in similar fashion and, like THE LOST SCRAPBOOK, is a political novel, one made of principally two things: ideas–witty analysis of our inept and corrupt culture–and yarns. dara’s specialty is in fact the yarn, the almost wholesome tale, ending with a zinger or even a moral. on their own they would be nice bits of entertainment, strung tog More...
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Oct 25, 2008
Jeff T. rated it: 3 of 5 stars
A friend from the Bay Area told me he saw this at a Berkeley bookstore, and I was insanely excited to read it because The Lost Scrapbook is a favorite of mine. However, I couldn't find the book anywhere, and for months the only reference I saw to it online was a cover-imageless listing on Amazon.com. I was disappointed that I did not live in the same dimension in which this book existed. Eventually, I found it on the publisher's web site, so I ordered it.

The style in which it is wri More...
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Oct 08, 2008
Steve rated it: 4 of 5 stars
The publisher of The Easy Chain--which publisher I'm starting to think is author Evan Dara himself--shot me an email for a pre-release offer for a copy (officially released Aug 8, 2008; I got mine June 16 and read it in 10 days) I guess because I have a personal page for Dara's first novel The Lost Scrapbook. [I've since created a page for The Easy Chain as well.]

I enjoyed it a LOT and am already trying to figure out when I can get a re-read in.

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Oct 05, 2010
Trenton rated it: 4 of 5 stars
A hundred pages in or so, I'm finding it amazing. I have the feeling Mr. Dara has done it again.
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