Book reviewers chronicle a year of best reads

[Dave Monroe]

Book reviewers chronicle a year of best reads
01:00 AM EST on Sunday, December 27, 2009


Every year at this time, we ask our reviewers to pick their five
favorite books of the year just past, and tell us why. Here is Part I.
Part II will appear next Sunday.

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Sam Coale

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INHERENT VICE, by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press, $27.95). Ah, Thomas.
You’re still true to the days of wine and weed in this manic mystery
of thugs, mobsters, evil dentists and dope peddlers.

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