Book #34. I love me some Khalili in the LRB but this was a total dud albeit mercifully short. Slapdash, disorganized, disjointed, and superficial.
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Book #33. Sunken German subs off the coast of New Orleans. Neo-Nazi/white supremecists running around trying to locate said sub. Robicheaux somewhat tediously toeing the line. ≈200pgs longer than others in the series and you feel it.
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Book #32. So densely packed it often left me intellectually floundering. Easily one of the best, most illuminating books I’ve read.
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Book #31. An odd book. Always interesting and informative but often disjointed and borderline incoherent.
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Book #30. My first Hillerman. Good stuff.
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Book #29. Far from the best of the “Parker” books but hardly a disappointment.
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Book #28. Nothing but a chore.
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Book #27. It’s often hard to think of things America got right. Anywhere. Ever.
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Book #26. Probably not Radden Keefe’s main intended takeaway but for me it was: whatever faith one may have in authority or the system, lose it.
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Book #25. Fun, has a reasonably authentic feel, and best of all, under 300pgs.
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Book #24. Pittsburgh’s decades long boom and bust relationship with steel and coke. Cycle has been forever broken but the continual searching for “the next big thing” in many ways persists.
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