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Bored to Death: A Noir-otic Story by Jonathan Ames

colorfulleo92's review

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3.0

This was a reread. The blurb and cover had me intrigued to read it again to see if I liked it more. It's more of lukewarm feelings. It was ok but not enough pages, plot or whatnot to get into it or get attached to anything

sbaunsgard's review

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3.0

Better at the beginning (during the bumbling detection) than at the end (when the 'action' happens). Overall, OK.

chaddah's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious fast-paced

3.0

jlc's review

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4.0

More or less matches the plot of the pilot episode of the TV show with a few details about the narrator changed, but takes a wildly different direction once he gets to the hotel room...

Upon finishing the short story I had this strange sense of deja vu -- and not just because I've recently been binging on the TV show. Dug through my bookshelf and found issue 24 of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern that I originally read "Bored to Death" in back in 2007. I remember enjoying it then too.
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