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hermetic

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11. Oh wow

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 02:43 PM

Mar 2024

I've always held Mr Doctorow in the highest regard though haven't read anything lately. That's about to change...

"The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California's prisons are traded like stock shares... A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash.."

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What Fiction are you reading this week, March 10, 2024? [View all] hermetic Mar 2024 OP

You could leave copies in Little Free Libraries & laundromats. CrispyQ Mar 2024 #1

I seem to recall when that came out hermetic Mar 2024 #5

I read King Rat in about 1965 or 66. I haven't reread it; I find it the darkest of the Clavell books. rsdsharp Mar 2024 #8

I will find It Can't Happen Here on audible so I can listen to it. MontanaMama Mar 2024 #2

Thanks for your rec hermetic Mar 2024 #3

Oh, I liked that book! CrispyQ Mar 2024 #6

Same! It wasn't at all what I was expecting. MontanaMama Mar 2024 #14

I'm still slogging thru William Kent Krueger's book, japple Mar 2024 #4

Yikes! That's awful. hermetic Mar 2024 #7

"The Bezzle" by Cory Doctorow justaprogressive Mar 2024 #9

Oh wow hermetic Mar 2024 #11

I'm about halfway through, "Solitude Creek," Bayard Mar 2024 #10

Ah, yes hermetic Mar 2024 #12

Happy 20th DUnniversary! niyad Mar 2024 #16

Hey, thanks! hermetic Mar 2024 #17

Just started King of the Dragonflies NanaCat Mar 2024 #13

Sequel to last week's book with attorney Marc Kadella yellowdogintexas Mar 2024 #15