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Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback, 1988, Del Rey / Ballantine Books)

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...

The system was …

A Classic... that I absolutely disliked from page 5 forward...

A slog. The idea I get, but ugh. I hated the writing style, the way it progressed. I just did not like much of this book at all. Which is probably why I recall nothing about it from high school when I first read it 3x years ago.

Dennis Lehane: Live by night (2012, William Morrow)

In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a …

Problems, and then... alright

I have some real problems with this book. It ended okay, earned, perhaps, but to get there, some truly unearned and incoherent stuff has to happen. And jiminy can Lehane just once describe a thing and leave the similes alone? At least the simile should make sense.

The story, at the end, I enjoyed. But, the beats? The rhythm? Not so much.