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Gone Bamboo
by Anthony Bourdain

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• not as good as his first but still interesting
  This isn't quite as good as Bone in the Throat but is still pretty engrossing. The plot isn't much, and the ending is disappointing, but still Bourdain turns a good phrase and I couldn't put the book down. The characters are likeable, and you care about what happens to them, although there is something uncomfortable about liking characters who are ruthless killers. Some of the story line could have been developed further, but still this is a pretty good read.

• Great follow up
  Tony's first novel "Bone in the Throat" left us in stiches with laughter. Much of that humor were the situations those characters got themselves into. In Gone Bamboo, the humor was mostly the off-beat characters themselves.
  Although both formulas worked, I liked the first one better but both are five star reads. As far as substance, "Bone" gets 5 stars and "Bamboo" gets 4 but I give "Bamboo" an extra star for the risks involved by the author in what could have been a sophmore jinx.

• Very Entertaining
  All in all, the book was very entertaining. I read it on the airplane on a recent trip to Puerto Vallarta. I heard it was set in St Martin, and since we've been there before and are returning later this year the setting piqued my interest. The book starts out a little rough, but when the author eases up a little on the excessive adjectives it becomes much more readable. I didn't think the ending was great though. In fact, he tried to tie up loose ends after the climax, but the last part reads as though his... more info

• Less cooking this time, and more shooting . . .
  Henry Denard is an American ex-pat living with his wife, Frances, in a nice hotel on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. They hang around with friends, eat barbequed chicken, and drink a lot. And every so often, Henry gets paid to kill someone. It's a good living and they're happy. Then Henry messes up an assignment by only wounding the target, which irritates the customer -- a cross-dressing New York wiseguy, whom you may find amusing in the first chapter but who quickly becomes more menacing and a lot... more info

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