A Brief History of Seven Killings -

[Ray Easton]

This is excellent.  It excited me more than anything published in quite 
some time.

Ray

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On December 30, 2015 1:17:11 PM Jacob Carey <aristotle114 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a copy of this, but have yet to read it. The little bit I have read
> was written beautifully.
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> Imo,  the one book p-listers might enjoy most from this year’s offerings
>> is A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James.  It’s quite violent
>> but the structure and language are brilliant.  A fictional retelling of the
>> attempted assassination of Bob Marley but a lot of the story is what
>> transpired later and how it related to what went before.
>>
>> Also excellent:
>> City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg / New York City circa 1977
>> Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith / crime - Blue Oyster Cult
>> The Cartel by Don Winslow / crime -  drug lords in Mexico
>> Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates  /  nonfiction - race
>> relations
>>
>> Bek -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
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