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	• Nobody's Fool Richard Russo Vintage, 1994 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 82 reviews view larger image
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Needs Six Stars, maybe Seven

This is second on my all time favorite list. To be able to make us care so deeply for a ragtag assortment of battle-scarred souls seeking happiness or comfort in a little upstate town, bypassed by both time and the interstate, is true genius. It's a pleasure to watch Sully, a paradigm of failed potential, be revealed as the glue that holds these folks together. "Rub" has to be one of the best supporting characters of all time. After reading the book a number of times, I left it on my desk at work. I could pick it up, open it anywhere, and just marvel in the glory of jubilant dialogue for a few minutes. Russo mined the same material in "The Risk Pool", also an excellent novel. I'd reccommend this beautiful effort to anyone contemplating a career as a writer, both as inspiration and primer. Thank you, Richard.

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A book that reads like a movie

I picked Richard Russo's novel up a week ago. It' s quite funny with compelling characters, people you know and people you'd swear don't exist. Like all good books it ends too soon. Though most of the characters problems are solved, I wanted to continue journey. I read a novel about every 5th book. If they were all written like this I would read many more.

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One of my all-time favorites!

This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is funny, poignant and easy to relate to. I have given copies of this book to numerous friends and relatives and everyone has loved it. I had the chance to talk with Richard Russo a few months ago and while he's working on a new novel, it's going to be at least several months before he's done. I can't wait.

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Satisfying, wonderful, thought provoking, refreshing..

I am actually in the midst of reading this book now, and decided to come to the computer to write about it so I won't finish it before I am ready to! I am gliding through it with growing enthusiasm and gaining compassion for each of the very real, warm characters. If you like Anne Tyler as I do, this is about the best 13 bucks you will spend this month...I have to go now...I need to get back to the book so I can see what happens at Hattie's next!

"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"

I enjoy comedy as much as the next person, but the deep meaning in this book was moving. The book is about life--and how we follow the examples set before us no matter how good or bad. Some of us claim to be better than that, however, no matter how advanced the education, you are still your fathers son. I finished the book wanting more, only to realize that Sully's son would only be repeating the mistakes made by his father years before. A comedic novel about the human cycle.

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