I'm suddenly curious about those weirdos with the money and cultivated landscapes. I'm as descended from William Bradford as the next guy, but none of my close blood's ever attended Harvard or been fictionalized in a Wall Street greedfest film. This is the latest bit of art ( this was the first) that's sent me thinking about "WASP culture." I had always thought WASP was supposed to be generic white Anglo American, but I'm realizing it's something much more precise (and moneyed) than that. I would love to know Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho lead was influenced by a character from this series. Although one aspect of the mystery was obvious to me long before it was obvious to the dick, I didn't see how it resulted in the mystery's solution until the very end. The mystery itself was nice and intricate. I quite liked it, even though all the female good guys are drop dead gorgeous and all the male good guys are drop dead gorgeous and even though the jokes pound and pound and pound until you die from the lack of blood. The boys, apparently at random, picked this book our for me from Barnes and Noble as a Christmas present. 007) Drop Shot by Harlan Coben, finished January 18
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