Or: Sorry, Marlies.
Scotty Bowers came back from World War II as an ex-Marine who’d fought in the Pacific. He went to work at a gas station in Hollywood. One day a famous (male) movie star dropped by for gas, picked Scotty up and took him back to his mansion for sex. A few days later, a friend …
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The first thing you’ll want to do when you finish reading this great thriller is go looking for more information about the Dreyfus Affair. Which is a little strange, because this book is all about the Dreyfus Affair (when an innocent French army officer was railroaded in 1894 for selling army secrets to the Germans, …
It’s said you should never meet your heroes. Perhaps you shouldn’t read about them either. This brisk, very readable, biography of the legendary comic doesn’t appear to be a deliberate hatchet job, but the subject does not come out in a decent light. Milligan emerges as a self-absorbed workaholic (pretty much?) oblivious to the concerns …
The ones - old and new - I enjoyed the most, in absolutely no order at all. (But I'll start with the best cover.) (Good story, too.) Missionary Stew by Ross Thomas Del Toro Moon by Derby Karchut This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks Redeployment by Phil Klay …
