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Kay
Aug 29, 2007 rated it really liked it
My second reading of this book, and I found it just as enjoyable. Some of the passages made me laugh out loud. I think having spent some time in New Mexico (which I hadn't done the first time I read this novel back in the 80's) really made the atmosphere of the book more convincing. And being older made me identify a bit more with the wily old coots that are central characters in the book.

I did find that the last 1/4 of the book seemed to drag a bit -- but that may have been in part because I w
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Jul 27, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: classics, anti-racist
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