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Title: "The big double bed was empty, as empty as my soul." (pg 339)
Review: I just finished reading this book, and dear god is it terrible. In 355 pages there are 12 deaths. 12! That's an average of 1 death every 30 pages. There is a mysterious gang of Druids, a drug deal gone awry, stolen nuclear waste, a plot to blow up an air force base, and the mob. There's also Bob- poor dead Bob- who, as the protagonist puts it, is "a good kid, gay or not" (pg 344). Additionally, women in this novel are only mentioned in relation to their sexual relationships with men. Although the setting of the novel is a coed college (Hamilton College) and the protagonist does much of his detecting by talking with students and professors at the school, he never once encounters a female student or a female professor. This book provides excellent material for my senior thesis, which is about men's colleges and men at Hamilton College in particular, but I don't think the novel is worth reading for any other reason.
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