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Ok, I'm going to do a standard review for the rest of the Mrs. Murphy books I read, because I really can't think of something smart to say about every single one of them. Actually, it's hard to come up with something smart to say about any one of them, because they are not really smart books. Though, no, that's not true. They aren't trivial as such, they aren't too easy - or, in other words, they don't hurt my brain while I read them. But I think we can all agree that they are also not "great literature", and certainly not intellectually challenging, and as such, they are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. (that and the talking animals, of course) But they are pretty straight-forward crime stories, not overly complicated, but also never boring. They live from the interaction of the characters and the settings, both of which Brown handles brilliantly. That she also manages to make the reader fall in love with the characters, not only the familiar ones, but also the new ones she adds in each book, shows that a master she really is. And so I have no problem admitting that I have read and loved every single one of the Mrs. Murphy books, and I'm convinced that I'll continue to love them for as long as she continues to write them, which I hope will be until forever.

The Day of the Locust is one of those books that keeps popping up on "Best Book" lists and so it was always one that I was interested in reading. During a recent re-read of my favorite graphic novel Y: The Last Man, Yorick, the main character stated that it was the best book ever written, so that clinched it - I had to read it. It is the story of a set builder in Hollywood set in the late 1930's. It can definitely be described as Hollywood Gothic. It has a set of eccentric, desperate characters trying to make sense of life in a town that nothing is real. Tod Hackett has come from Yale to Hollywood and is working on sets of movies (which he sees as beneath him). Throughout the book, he continues to plan his next painting "The Burning of Los Angeles". As Tod (and the reader) meets desperate character after desperate character...those in which Tod refers to "those who have come to California to die....the painting become more complete in Tod's head as he plots how they'll appear his painting. The symbolism and themes were definitely lacking subtlety. There are passages after passages about the falseness of Hollywood – people dressed as things they are not, build made to represent buildings of other times, fake cowboys that have nothing better to do than stand around pretending to be cowboys. But despite the obviousness of the book, I kept with it and was glad I did. As I was reading, I was really considering a 1 star rating, but the last quarter or so bumped the rating up.

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