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The Painter
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Teresa
May 24, 2016 rated it it was ok
I listened to this book and there were times when I questioned why I was sticking with it. The main character, Jim Stegner, was nauseatingly macho, in my opinion, and it seemed the female characters were all created to feed the MC's ego, even the dead daughter who was a mini-me version of the MC. I had a hard time separating the MC's sexism from the author, who has the talent to do much better than this. I could go on and on and point out examples of the fantasy man that is the main character (h ...more
Susan Coley
Mar 04, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Loved this book!
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Jan 01, 2016 rated it really liked it
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