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Hieroglyph: Stories and Blueprints for a Better Future
Ukraine: Zbig's Grand Chessboard & How the West Was Checkmated
The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Our Souls at Night: A novel
Above the Waterfall
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction
The Homicide Report: Understanding Murder in America
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The Gods of Mars
A road trip written with a 20-something sensibility. I enjoyed the writer’s use of language but found the tale, overall, rather tedious. It sounds wonderful in anticipation, but it did not sparkle for me. The author seeks out a fellow who had been present at Einstein’s autopsy, and who made off with Einstein’s brain. Paterniti befriends the codger—in his eighties—and they set off cross-country to California where the codger intends to leave the remnants with one of Einstein’s descendents. They have some amusing interludes while [b:on the road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21E8H3D1JSL._SL75_.jpg|3355573], but I would skip this one. I would expect that this writer might produce something of value eventually. If not, his gift for language would have been wasted.