Category Archives: jess walter

Quote Of The Day – 3/3/07

March 3, 2007 – 5:44 pm

I mentioned Citizen Vince by Jess Walter here, but it really was in passing and so, just to be clear, the book is outstanding.
It is a well-written mafia thriller chocked full of everything you would expect. It has the really bad criminal, the moderately bad criminal, the smart criminal, several really dumb criminals, John [...]

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The Brief History Of The Dead

February 7, 2007 – 9:18 pm

The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier is now out in paperback. If you didn’t pick it up in hardcover, you should definitely pick it up now.
It is riddled with corporate intrigue and layered with environmental, apocalyptical, futuristic and globalization themes, which makes it an excellent page turner. It is the kind of [...]

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