Books by Johnny Shaw
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review 1: I would have liked this better if I hadn't already read Dove Season and Plaster City. I thought those were great. This one had some great parts and the situations and characters were good, but somehow didn't come off as well for me. There was more telling what people thought than...
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review 1: I am not sure why I did not like this book more, especially since some of my GR friends gave it 4 stars (Dan S., Kemper, James T.), but I didn't. Jimmy Veeder returns home to the Imperial Valley, on the U.S. Mexico border when news of his father's impending death from cancer fin...
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review 1: Another Amazon Prime freebie, so I had not read the first book in Jimmy Veeder series, although I never felt that I was missing out on any pre-established narrative. This read a lot like an 80's action movie, along the lines of Lethal Weapon style buddy story I'd say, only with a...
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review 1: The only book by this author that I read before this one was Big Maria, a very funny, farcical adventure that I loved despite some rather explicit grossness. I expected this book, published earlier, to be more of the same. I was wrong.This book is still quite funny, but it has ...