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last updated Dec 16, 2014 09:22AM
Free copy of Proximity Factor this July, no reviews required. Just enjoy.
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Truthfully, I'd give this two-and-a-half stars. I enjoyed some of it, as some of it is quite smart and funny, but, overall, it felt like a cheap knockoff cross between Goethe's Faust, Glen Duncan's The Last Werewolf, the film Shaun of the Dead, and Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens. I would initially classify this as very much a "guy" book, but maybe "hetero man-child" is a little nearer the mark. It was fun enough, but the female characters were pretty one-dimensional. Would maybe be
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I have been lingering over this book on the Melville House webpage for ages. It sounded fascinating, but it also sounded like there was some serious potential for turning out to be some pretentious hipster "edgy" lad lit. So I hedged, and put off, until I was at the library and ended up with the book in my hand. What did I have to lose at that point, right?
I actually spent most of the book straddling that fence of "I'm really going to like this," and "this is all going to turn out to be such a h ...more
I actually spent most of the book straddling that fence of "I'm really going to like this," and "this is all going to turn out to be such a h ...more
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Melissa
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