The Devil You Know: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0609609645 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael P. McCullough said Interesting. I normally do not read best-sellers or "page-turners," but when I saw that the author was a teacher at the Iowa Workshop and that it was set in the Boundary Waters wilderness in the seventies (I went on two life changing trips in this area as a teen from Chicago in the seventies) I was excited about reading this book. I enjoyed the book a great deal and stayed up later t. "Comma Town USA" according to Perry Bishop. I just finished reading this book, The Devil You Know, and while the story, in and of itself, was interesting, I had a very hard time getting around the exceedingly long, sometimes exasperatingly so, sentences that could, on their own, constitute a paragraph, even one of ample length, requiring multiple readings of the same information, in an attempt to glean the author'. Would have made a good short story Saunadog I had high hopes that this would be an exciting read because of the basic premise of a family being chased by bad guys in the wilderness. There were some suspenseful sections, but they were hardly worth reading all the extraneous parts to get to. I think the author tried too hard at creating literature than in writing a good story. Characters could see in the dark becaus
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