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""When I got up in the morning, I celebrated the fact that I had coffee by drinking a lot of coffee."
I really like the protagonist so far. He should be hard-boiled but has too much of a sense of humor to actually go there. REFRESHING." — May 15, 2013 11:45am
""When I got up in the morning, I celebrated the fact that I had coffee by drinking a lot of coffee."
I really like the protagonist so far. He should be hard-boiled but has too much of a sense of humor to actually go there. REFRESHING." — May 15, 2013 11:45am
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I opened the windows and I got a bottle of wine and I lay on the couch for what felt like days (it was ~18 hours), reading until I drifted off, waking up, reading more.
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I lost a lot of sleep to this book, first to reading it and then to thinking about it. I guess it's a mystery, and if I thought it were a mystery it would be one I loved, but mostly I thought it was gorgeous: pretty words for ugly, brutal things,...
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