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Ideally reading a crime novel on a boat with a boat cat companion listening to random music

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A Million Little Pieces
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A Million Little Pieces
8.8 (13 Ratings)
The Tin Roof Blowdown
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The Tin Roof Blowdown
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He
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He
10.0 (1 Ratings)
The Book of Lost Things
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The Book of Lost Things
8.6 (5 Ratings)
charlie parker series
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charlie parker series
9.7 (3 Ratings)
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Amazon Kindle
9.1 (292 Ratings)
TED
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TED
8.8 (6 Ratings)
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Dalicat (20 KP) rated A Million Little Pieces in Books

Sep 3, 2018  
A Million Little Pieces
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey | 2018 | Biography
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8.8 (13 Ratings)
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The beautifully stark poetical prose (2 more)
The spectrum of emotion through which the reader follows the author
A plot that could go in any direction
Brutally honest
There is a wealth of literature about drug addiction, alcoholism and recovery out there. Most of it seems contrived and tries much too hard to preach to the reader about the awfulness of addiction and the
redemptive process of recovery. I find most of these hard to stomach. There is nothing contrived about this work. It tells it as it is. The author is neither trying to shock nor preach. This autobiographical novel is written in a stark prose which allows the horrors and joys of the story to speak for themselves. The comedy is deepest black as is the despair. The story is filled with wonderful and terrible characters and events. I wanted to read it straight through but had to stop to rest and sleep.
  
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Dalicat (20 KP) rated The Tin Roof Blowdown in Books

Sep 1, 2018  
The Tin Roof Blowdown
The Tin Roof Blowdown
James Lee Burke | 2008 | Fiction & Poetry
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
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The sheer scale of the work (0 more)
A novel one lives rather than reads
Each of the fifteen Dave Robicheaux novels which preceded this one are masterpieces and this is the Grand Finale. The plot and characters move within the devasted landscape of New Orleans following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The scenes of environmental destruction are described with heartbreakingly beautiful poetic prose which serves as a counterpoint to a seering indictment of the socio-economic political landscape of the time. The extreme conditions under which the plot develops drive the characters to their limits of good and evil. The plot is as relentless as the driving force of the hurricane. Often difficult to read due to the sheer emotional weight of the work but too compelling to put down.
  
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Dalicat (20 KP) rated He in Books

Aug 30, 2018  
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John Connolly | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
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So much more than a biography (0 more)
Who is HE?
I don't want to give anything away. This is a deeply moving portrait of one half of a comedy duo and one of the most heartbreaking accounts of an inner human landscape I have read.
  
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Dalicat (20 KP) rated The Book of Lost Things in Books

Aug 30, 2018  
The Book of Lost Things
The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.6 (5 Ratings)
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Utterly captivating. A masterful piece of good old fashioned story telling. (0 more)
A grimm fairytale
I haven't been so completely drawn into a book since I read Michael Ende's "Neverending Story" (hell mend you Disney for what you did to that exquisite novel). This is a heartachingly tender story of childhood bereavement and bewilderment. The tale is so skillfully woven I walked every step of the story with the lost and lonely little protagonist.
  
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Dalicat (20 KP) rated charlie parker series in Books

Aug 30, 2018  
charlie parker series
charlie parker series
John Connolly | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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9.7 (3 Ratings)
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Intriguing characters combined with organic and wholly unpredictable plots. Combines heartbreaking tenderness with terrifying menace both human and (maybe) supernatural. (0 more)
Charlie Parker has captured my soul
I picked up one of these novels off the Library shelf at random and have been unable to stop reading the series since (currently awaiting the next one). These novels tackle all the great themes of love and loss, of Good and Evil, of fall and redemption. The author's journalistic background is evident in the painstaking research that has been carried out to create these works. Charlie Parker is the most intriguing and multidimensional fictional detective I have encountered. Oh, and John Connolly's prose sometimes makes me have to stop and catch my breath so I can pause and just reread the magical combination of words I have discovered like diamonds in a mine.
  
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Dalicat (20 KP) rated Amazon Kindle in Apps

Aug 30, 2018  
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A portable library
I resisted getting this for a long time as I love holding a book and find just turning the pages deeply satisfying. However with kindle I can take a whole pile of books on holiday without having to carry a ton of extra luggage. This is great if you NEED to be able to read and you can't manage to take a bookcase with you wherever you go.