Smarter than You - FOOL

Fool: A Novel by Christopher Moore
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Bawdy and brilliant, Christopher Moore is just plain funny.  This whole book is tongue-and-cheek almost to the point of The Princess Bride.  And I love The Princess Bride.  Moore never disappoints and I hope he'll try more random genre stuff in the future.

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As the Moulin Rouge says - FLAWLESS

Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Fascinating story, albeit based on multiple sources with a lot of the most interesting details still missing (because the police don't even know).  I'd be interested in a follow-up in ten years tracking how the guys who made the heist are living the life, but still keeping their stolen riches in hiding.

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Climb In - TAKE ME WITH YOU

Take Me with You by Brad Newsham
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Enjoyable travelogue, and the person Newsham selects to bring back to the US is the one I was rooting for.  But he chooses at the very end, and there's no follow-up.  In fact, Newsham spoke to my book club last week and admitted that he couldn't find a publisher to back the writing of the rest of the story.

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