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Terrorist by John Updike
Terrorist is the 22nd novel written by John Updike.
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Terrorist is the 22nd novel written by John Updike.

From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story …
Mushrooms and fungus-based vampires emigrating to Mexico to ... I dunno. This wasn't exactly what I expected or wanted. It had moments of entertainment, and it had moments of ... I dunno. It was fine, I guess.
Mushrooms and fungus-based vampires emigrating to Mexico to ... I dunno. This wasn't exactly what I expected or wanted. It had moments of entertainment, and it had moments of ... I dunno. It was fine, I guess.

From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story …
The most thorough and comprehensive biography of R.E.M. yet published, Maps and Legends covers not …
The most thorough and comprehensive biography of R.E.M. yet published, Maps and Legends covers not …
I can't say I loved this book. That would be a hollow claim. His living in the passive voice drove me absolutely insane; it distracted me continually. His obvious anger at Peter Buck for some damn thing really gnawed at me, too. Finally, once he became a music critic in the book, he did so without drawing any suggestion for why he could call some of the group's songs "shit," he just did it. Lazy af, imo.
I can't say I loved this book. That would be a hollow claim. His living in the passive voice drove me absolutely insane; it distracted me continually. His obvious anger at Peter Buck for some damn thing really gnawed at me, too. Finally, once he became a music critic in the book, he did so without drawing any suggestion for why he could call some of the group's songs "shit," he just did it. Lazy af, imo.

Hunter, John Victor, IV: Maps and Legends
The most thorough and comprehensive biography of R.E.M. yet published, Maps and Legends covers not just the band's entire career, …

Hunter, John Victor, IV: Maps and Legends
The most thorough and comprehensive biography of R.E.M. yet published, Maps and Legends covers not just the band's entire career, …
I want to say I loved this book, but I didn't. There's something to the author's style that I liked in small doses that as the end arrived, amped up. Also, I heard him discuss the book in a podcast. How he described the book didn't really match up with what I read. It's a fun story about a group of guys who went from college kids monkeying around to becoming my favorite musicians of ever and always, but the author left me feeling... like I learned very little? I'm not sure. In the end, disappointing.
I want to say I loved this book, but I didn't. There's something to the author's style that I liked in small doses that as the end arrived, amped up. Also, I heard him discuss the book in a podcast. How he described the book didn't really match up with what I read. It's a fun story about a group of guys who went from college kids monkeying around to becoming my favorite musicians of ever and always, but the author left me feeling... like I learned very little? I'm not sure. In the end, disappointing.

In the spring of 1980, an unlikely group of musical eccentrics -- Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill …

In late 1950s Barcelona, Bea, the wife of Daniel Sempere, and his friend Fermín are trying to help him recover …