players – Cannonball Read 17

Extra Reading

Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

Players by Don DeLillo

A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke

Louise Hathcock: Queen of the State Line Mob by Robert Broughton

Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark

June 7, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’m trying to document all of the books I read on here to better hit my cannonball numbers. These are ones I’ve been meaning to upload into combined reviews but haven’t. Some are good, some are eh, but most of them just didn’t merit a lot of words from me at the time I finished them for various reasons. Who Is Maud Dixon? *** For a similar identity-based thriller I read last year, a reviewer derisively pegged it as The Talented Mr. Rip-off. I didn’t […]

Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation

June 11, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I was listening to this one and I almost stopped it a few times. But something clicked with the narrative and I kept with it. I would say I didn’t end up hating it, like I thought I might, and while I didn’t really connect with it, it was interesting, and had me thinking about how it might look or be structure today. This novel is from 1977 and takes place within the culture of the New York financial district. It uses the World Trade […]

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