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Dec 23, 2015
Holli
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I heard, and read, that the sales on this book when it was first released were so poor that it was revealed that J. K. Rowling wrote it before it took off. This told me much about the book itself. In reading it, I can unfortunately see why it wasn't a winner at first blush. It's kind of meh compared to how well I know Ms. Rowling can write. It actually seesaws, at least for me, from her wonderful way with prose of really good and gripping to ho-hum. The book takes forever to get really started a
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It's J.K Rowlings first crime novel written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Admitingly I was curious about it because of the author. Anyway I also had to ask the Chapters clerk if he had read it and what he thought of it. He told me basically that it was fantastic. I think the cover is nothing to be admired. Cormoran Strike is a soldier veteran turned private investigator who has a prosthetic leg that causes him some pain. He also just broke up with his beautiful girlfriend, Charlotte, an ...more
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Elizabeth (Thoughts From an Evil Overlord)
marked it as to-read
Jan 23, 2017
Darlene
marked it as wishlist
