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Loading... The Plutonium Blonde (Daw Book Collectors)... relationship with, like, the human movie director she's learning from.
For ages I thought this was titled something like The Plutonium Blonde, or another book by that author, but nothing there matches the plot I remember. The book Agent to the Stars is also not right.
Does this ring any ... My reaction exactly on The Plutonium Blonde. "tried really hard to be clever, but a little too mechanical about it, didn't really care about the characters. Too comic-booky." ...
Then I did a re-read of A Separate Peace by John Knowles (better than I found it in high school) and tried The Plutonium Blonde by Zakour/Ganem (thumbs down).
Read Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose for Early Reviewers (OK) and now reading Peter Wicked by Bro ... 50) The Plutonium Blonde by Zakour and Ganem. They didn't hit the mark on this one...humor a bit leaden, not much action, etc. ... Dominion by Charlie Huston
48) Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston
49) Hit and Run by Lawrence Block
50) The Plutonium Blonde by Zakour and Ganem
51) (22) Peter Wicked: A Matty Graves Novel by Broos Campbell
52) Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
53) (23) H.M.S. ... ... Read in 2008, * indicates a re-read
1/2 Nylon Angel by Marianne de Pierres
1/4 Snake Agent by Liz Williams
1/6 The Plutonium Blonde by John Zakour & Lawrence Ganem 2.5 tried really hard to be clever, but a little too mechanical about it, didn't really care about the characters. To ... Kushana: Another one for the subgenre: The Last PI on Earth series by John Zakour. I've only read one of them The Plutonium Blonde, they are supposed to be humorous noir, but I weren't overly impressed. ... Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood by Oliver Sacks
Platinum : ten Filipino stories by F. Sionil Jose
The plutonium blonde by John Zakour
A spillage of mercury by Niel Rollinson
Bonus volume: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi The "Zach Johnson" series of future detective parodies really should be more popular then they seem to be, The Plutonium Blonde being the first in the series.
Also, I'd have to say that the best non-fiction book I've read this year is Hitler's Beneficiaries by Gotz Aly, which examines how Hit ...
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