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2011 in books: one popular bandwagon avoided; another joined.

uvula_fr_b4 Dec 31, 2011 22:48

I still haven't read any of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest), but, what with the 23 December release of the U.S. movie adaptation of the first book, directed by David Fincher (Alien 3, se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin ( Read more... )

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"'God only knows who's givin' information to the Government now'": a review of The Informer.

uvula_fr_b4 Nov 19, 2011 19:02

From Saturday, 12 November to Monday, 14 November I read Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel The Informer (Dublin: Wolfhound Press [an imprint of Merlin Publishing], 2006; ISBN: 0-86327-938-4; 217 pps.).

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