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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/608217.The_Bottom_of_the_Harbor?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Bottom of the Harbor (Vintage Classics)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1176257819m/608217.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/608217.The_Bottom_of_the_Harbor?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Bottom of the Harbor</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/123376.Joseph_Mitchell">Joseph Mitchell</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7385177?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>It's ok. The first piece, about a hotel that time forgot, rises to a good story. And the piece about super sized harbor rats is creepily entertaining. There is something to be said for Mitchell capturing a disappeared bayfront culture. But the rest bogged down in the snooze-inducing detail of overly long New Yorker non-fiction: everything you wanted to know about clams. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/357141?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>