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The Cat Trap, by K.T. McCaffrey
First up, you can buy K. T. McCaffrey's novel The Cat Trap via Amazon...
 
- reviewed by crimeficreader
Featured on March 13th, 2008
 
 
Echo Park, by Michael Connelly
In Echo Park, Harry Bosch continues his lonely, almost religious campaign to close old unsolved crimes....
 
- reviewed by Maxine
Featured on March 12th, 2008
 
 
This is not a crime novel, before you read on...  But it is a good insightful read...
 
- reviewed by crimeficreader
Featured on March 11th, 2008
 
 
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
I have not read Cormac McCarthy before, primarily because I am not generally a fan of post-Armageddon formats, but seeing “No Country for Old Men” made me curious and I picked up...
 
- reviewed by mikecuth
Featured on March 10th, 2008
 
 
The Young Visiters, by Daisy Ashford
On Friday last, Mrs GOB and I attended a theatrical adaptation of Daisy Ashford's novel The Young Visiters. And no, that isn't a typo. Visiters is the way Daisy spelt it...
 
- reviewed by Michael_Allen
Featured on March 8th, 2008
 
 
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The China Lover, by Ian Burma
The one job qualification necessary for becoming celebrity is reinvention. Part this has to do with the reality and economics of the business: Marlon Brando had to audition for The Godfather because ...
reviewed by pcontino
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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Many great minds throughout history have commented on the invisible war waged between the written word and technology. Kafka referred to the dawn of motion picture as the...
reviewed by BLNicholas
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American Wife , by Curtis Sittenfeld
It seemed like a good idea: a sexed-up, fictionalized autobiography of Laura Bush. For eight years the First Lady has been the "silent partner" in a White House that can boast that it changed the cou...
reviewed by pcontino
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The Ha-Ha, by Dave King
This is Dave King's debut fictional novel, and it is superb. It is centered around Howie, a Vietnam Vet. He became disabled in the war and has been trying to rebuild his life ever since. His disabi...
reviewed by sbarranca
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the novel that took this series to a whole new level. Not only is it more complicated, dramatic, and suspenseful than the first three, but it is also the found...
reviewed by sbarranca
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