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They call him the Oracle. He's got 46 years under his belt and more hash marks than a football field. More importantly, he has a crew of cops to look out for on the streets of Hollywood. From his understaffed office at Hollywood Station, he keeps a close eye on his squad who spend their day in patrol cars, and their nights in the underbelly of a city that never sleeps.
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- By Deborah on 01-08-07
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Harbor Nocturne
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When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from San Pedro Harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, their lives are forever changed. An unexpectedly tender and moving love story develops among the cops and criminals who occupy the harbor, and soon Dinko and Lita are caught up in terror and peril through no fault of their own.
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This is a Hollywood Station novel.
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In his finest, most compelling blend of wild humor and powerful drama, Joseph Wambaugh leads us into the Hollywood scene to demonstrate the effects of that heady, amoral world on four sets of police partners enmeshed in the glamour and the grime, the hustle and the horror. They live and work in a dizzying mix of moguls and starlets, elaborate parties, outrageous and sordid actions; a place where sex and drugs are open and the big deals are undercover.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great sleazy fun
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He is a damned good cop -- a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner -- twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love.
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Hard to put down
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Lines and Shadows
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Each night, thousands of immigrants stream north across the Mexican border towards San Diego, hoping to make a new life in the United States. Along the way, many find death instead. Bandit gangs roam the moonlit desert, robbing, raping, and killing these desperate, impoverished migrants. For decades Dick Snider has watched this happen. Now, in 1976, he’s decided to end the bloodshed. A San Diego cop with an intimate awareness of the trials of border crossing, Snider has uncommon sympathy for the immigrants.
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Wambaugh’s world
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Hollywood Station
- A Novel
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 355
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 178
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They call him the Oracle. He's got 46 years under his belt and more hash marks than a football field. More importantly, he has a crew of cops to look out for on the streets of Hollywood. From his understaffed office at Hollywood Station, he keeps a close eye on his squad who spend their day in patrol cars, and their nights in the underbelly of a city that never sleeps.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Patience...it IS classic Wambaugh
- By Deborah on 01-08-07
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Harbor Nocturne
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
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- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 194
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4 out of 5 stars 170
When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from San Pedro Harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, their lives are forever changed. An unexpectedly tender and moving love story develops among the cops and criminals who occupy the harbor, and soon Dinko and Lita are caught up in terror and peril through no fault of their own.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is a Hollywood Station novel.
- By Ryan on 09-14-12
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The Choirboys
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4 out of 5 stars 125
Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch - shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap - each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely Funny, Probably Offensive
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The Glitter Dome
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33
In his finest, most compelling blend of wild humor and powerful drama, Joseph Wambaugh leads us into the Hollywood scene to demonstrate the effects of that heady, amoral world on four sets of police partners enmeshed in the glamour and the grime, the hustle and the horror. They live and work in a dizzying mix of moguls and starlets, elaborate parties, outrageous and sordid actions; a place where sex and drugs are open and the big deals are undercover.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great sleazy fun
- By dogcow on 05-28-17
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The Black Marble
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
He is a damned good cop -- a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner -- twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard to put down
- By Linda on 09-15-11
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Lines and Shadows
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrated by: John Nelson
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
Each night, thousands of immigrants stream north across the Mexican border towards San Diego, hoping to make a new life in the United States. Along the way, many find death instead. Bandit gangs roam the moonlit desert, robbing, raping, and killing these desperate, impoverished migrants. For decades Dick Snider has watched this happen. Now, in 1976, he’s decided to end the bloodshed. A San Diego cop with an intimate awareness of the trials of border crossing, Snider has uncommon sympathy for the immigrants.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wambaugh’s world
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The Onion Field
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 545
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Haunting
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Floaters
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- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 18
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poor reader ruined this book for me
- By A. on 05-30-13
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Fugitive Nights
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- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Joseph Wambaugh returns to glamorous Palm Springs and its ever-mysterious desert to give listeners a suspense novel rich in astonishing plot twists, fascinating characters, and the penetrating humor for which he is famous. Three mismatched people - one of whom is a police officer - become involved in the trail of an elusive and dangerous fugitive on a secret mission.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not his best
- By Amazon Customer on 05-18-13
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The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1
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- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,572
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,767
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For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My 2nd Time Through the Series
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The Blooding
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story, a few quibbles with the audio.
- By ricketsj on 05-07-14
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The Delta Star
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In death she looks 35, but Missy Moonbeam, a.k.a. Thelma Bernbaum, is only 22 when the cops of Rampart Division find her flattened on the sidewalk. A Nebraska farm girl, Missy came to Los Angeles to act, and died not long after her dream did. The detectives assume that her pimp threw her off a roof - but they couldn’t be more wrong. Missy had a trick at Caltech whose name draws the Rampart detectives into a bizarre conspiracy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Last names?
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They each had their reasons for being a soldier. They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo - Death Before Dishonor - before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes. They were three young men from different worlds plunged into a white-hot, murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin, 1969. They had no way of knowing what awaited them. Nothing could have prepared them for the madness to come. And in the heat and horror of battle they took on new identities, took on each other, and were each reborn in fields of fire....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome Read! of course I am Prejudiced
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Thomas Perry's Edgar Award-winning debut novel follows a professional hitman on the run from both the mafia and the government.
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4 out of 5 stars
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FUN gripping and very well-written
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Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, to defend clients at the bottom of the legal food chain. It's no wonder that he is despised by cops, prosecutors, and even some of his own clients. But an investigator is murdered for getting too close to the truth and Haller quickly discovers that his search for innocence has taken him face to face with a kind of evil as pure as a flame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration
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Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief - with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, she can easily stroll through ritzy Bel Air neighborhoods and pick out the perfect home for plucking the most valuable items. This is how Elle has always gotten by - she is good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. But after stumbling upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from the home of a wealthy art dealer, Elle discovers she is no longer the only one sneaking around. Somebody is searching for her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From breaking the law to helping the law....
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Rules of Prey
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- By: John Sandford
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,058
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The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare, is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary worthy of his genius.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this series
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,182
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Virgil Flowers kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We'll only give you the hard stuff." He's been doing the hard stuff for three years now, but never anything like this.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great winding road of a story
- By Crystal on 10-10-07
Publisher's Summary
When Nate and Bix Rumstead (a supposedly upstanding cop with serious sobriety issues) find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems.
To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious bar-owner, Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim: she's setting them both up so that she can get away with the perfect murder - and still stand to inherit her ex-husbands's ill-won fortune.
What SHE doesn't know is that Aziz has replaced her sleeping pills with a poison. And then there's Leonard Stillwater, a small time tweaker whose connection to Aziz is about to shoot him into the big leagues.
Complete with scams, cokeheads, and petty (and some not so petty) crimes, Hollywood Crows offers the very best of Wambaugh: impeccable plotting, acerbic humor, and plenty of flawed but lovable characters.
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- Ted
- Lancaster, PA, United States
- 02-25-17
Who's At Fault? Another Shuddering Success
Wambaugh finds stories along civilization’s fault lines. He asks and answers questions about what’s going through the minds of guards along the wall separating the anti-social from the social. And he presents their frustrations as a perspective that’s missing from the smug policies flowing from 24/7 news cycles or academic ‘studies’ tediously designed to prove the convictions of their author's confirmation-bias.
There are whacky, weird, and bewildering sparks that crackle from walking the beat between what different communities prize as ‘normal’. And these are Wambaugh’s honey-loaded teaspoons that make his medicine go down.
I like these stories… Like the way they’re told and read by Christian Rummel. And I like the talent of Wambaugh to make me wonder whether the wall between the social and anti-social needs more than guards patrolling it’s perimeter, like serious maintenance or even redesign and new construction to fill its cracks and crumblings.
It’s above the pay-grade of guards to heal fault lines. It’s their job to alert us when shudderings increase. Wambaugh’s the guy who’s saying, “Houston, we’ve got a problem.” Enjoy this series from the first, “Hollywood Station: A Novel” then through “Hollywood Crows” and now “Hollywood Moon”. I’m downloading the apparent last of the epic, “Hollywood Hills” right now.
That’s the best recommendation I can give.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Dalekchap
- San Diego, CA United States
- 01-07-11
Laugh out loud funny and deadly serious
Great and fun ride. The author brings in witty thoughtful and silly characters. At the same time crafts a good tale around it. This was my first of Joseph Wambaugh's books - now on to the next one!
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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- Greg Wilson
- 01-08-12
Funny light weekend reading
All of Wambaugh's Hollywood series are simplistic comic views into the Hollywood division's diverse characters. I really enjoyed each of them and look forward to more from Wambaugh. Recommended for light reading.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Lynn Fraser
- Watertown,WI USA
- 02-09-09
Good to the last sentence!
I've always loved Joe's stuff, well, most of it. The two Hollywood Station books are great. Wish they would put Black Marble on Audio. That Rocks!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Gregory S.
- Indio, California
- 01-22-17
Awesome.
Great book and great series. Keeps you on the edge of your seat. This is truely written by a master.
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- tim
- 05-23-16
a very solid book wambaugh does it again.
The inside storys are truely wambaugh at his very best
we can only hope for more.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- manic guy
- 03-24-15
Hilarious!
It's an easy-going book has a good plot that keeps you wondering what will happen and it's always hilarious
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Douglas
- 11-03-09
Wambaugh at his best
He has done it again. As a former LAPD officer who worked the streets of Hollywood I can fully appreciate the interpersonal relationships and how they relate to create this wonderful story.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 09-27-08
Joe your back!
This is one of the best books Joe has written in years. I laughed until I cried and then I really did get sad in the end. Joe please bring this entire crew back for another book. I actually felt like they were friends.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Rachel
- Riverdale Park, MD, United States
- 06-24-08
beginning to end good read - funny and exciting
- does he write any others like this? I want them!
6 of 10 people found this review helpful