I promised you hot book action (not in so many words), and I am delivering - or beginning to deliver: the epic battle sequences will run into multiple posts.
2008 BOOK-OFF
The categories:
- Essay and Short Story Collections
- Colons
- Dude Books
- Ugh
- Fancy-Pants New Lit.
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(Ha ha! The Ragged Dick Series. Ha ha ha ha ha.)
"I don't much like spy books, or spy movies, because when characters cross and doublecross I become confused, angry, and then bored. People like me are why Mission Impossible had to end with a man-in-helicopter-on-man-on-train fight rather than anything that made sense: we'd just realized that there were two old white guys all along, and were in no shape for a character-driven denouement ( ... )
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