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In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
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The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
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Frelseren by Jo Nesbø
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Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
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The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
Pretty good, but honestly, I couldn't firmly keep the characters straight, between the flitting back to the war years and back. It's a credit to the work that I kept reading despite this defect, as I experienced it.
Michael rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Liked it a lot at first -- clever, biting, insightful, even current, despite its 1927 copyright. (Another great American accomplishment of that year.) But the latter part (third? quarter?) was rushed, clearly. That part was more like I woulda written...more
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The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy
read in March, 2013
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Hunter S. Thompson
“We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or where will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for war seem to know who did it or where to look for them.

This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed--for anyone, and certainly not for a baffled little creep like George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it off.”
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