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  <title><![CDATA[Down in the Zero (Burke, Book 7)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given readers a new kind of hero. Investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy suburb, Burke discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of an elite sadomasochistic underground.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">4</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">7</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Down in the Zero (Burke, Book 7)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Andrew Vachss]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 04 19:54:18 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Burke, Vachss' anti-hero, is a quasi-detective, part vigilante, who has a soft spot for protecting children. We learn during the course of the novel that he grew up in an orphanage, has no memory of either parent, has served time in prison, where he learned much of his &quot;trade&quot; from the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45419164">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 13 11:03:16 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The trouble with hardboiled fiction is that it's so ripe for parody.  Even at its best this style of writing is so very unselfconscious, so glaringly stripped down--yeah, I know the all the words, it seems to be saying, but I'm so tough I only need to use a few of them.  Sometimes that works.  Chand...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35195297">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 15 19:46:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked all of the Vachss books.  I guess I read most or all of them.  But they are really dark; darker than Michael Connelly, modern LA, &quot;noir&quot; detective books where the hero, detective Heironymous Bosch's prostitute mother is an unsolved murder case.  In Vachss' (I think it's pronounced ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17835805">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Burke is out of his natural element again, this time called to a wealthy Connecticut suburb by the son of a former acquaintance who is scared about the rash of apparent suicides among his peers. When Burke investigates, he finds more than he bargains for, including sexual exploitation, blackmail and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25863067">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 09:03:14 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still reading this of course, but it might as well be already read. Vacchs is so good. Awesome.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really respect Andrew Vachss and I enjoy the brutality of his writing.  <br/><br/>This Burke novel was pretty good, but I now have to admit that the way his associate, The Prof, always has to rhyme everything...it kinda bugs me.<br/><br/>At any rate, not the strongest entry in the series, but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15628447">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 02 14:23:04 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[    I really wanted to love this book because of my profound respect for Vachss.  I simply found the writing to be weak and unimpressive.  It's not a bad read, it's just not a good one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[IT WAS AN OVER ALL GOOD FUN BOOK, IT HAS ALL THE GOODIES A KID LIKE ME WANTS, AND ITS EDGE TONE AND VOICE MAKE IT A GOOD READ FOR ANYONE, SEPT MAYBE NOT GIRLS.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hate.  Another one of those &quot;I'll finish reading it because of art.&quot;  Nah, not worth it.]]></body>
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