NOVEMBER 2014

Station Eleven ~ Emily St. John Mandel

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Perfidia ~ James Ellroy

X NO X

- UNFINISHED -

Perfidy : an act of deception
And so I was deceived into reading it.

And I was bored when I did.  And I was over the staccato writing and the lack of depth to the parade of characters.  The writing style.  It was abbreviated.   There was an air of immediacy.  Unrelenting in it's "hold your breath, something dramatic might happen".  It wore me down.  It was like a parody of writing styles.  Characters may have walked the walk and talked the talk but were rather like caricatures.

Reached the half way point and decided that, like the sentence structure, life was too short.

Satori ~ Don Winslow

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Shibumi ~ Trevanian

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