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matt819

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19. I finished Crooked Little Vein last night
Sat Jan 19, 2013, 11:57 AM
Jan 2013

The gist is that the White House Chief of Staff - the book was written in 2007, so we know what regime he's talking about - hires a two-bit NY private eye to recover a secret version of the Constitution, in the form of a book that has the unique power to return America - all of us - to the path of moral correctness. Hilarity ensues.

The private eye tracks the book from NY to Columbus, OH, to Texas to Las Vegas to LA to Beverly Hills, with each stop weirder than the one before it, though I think Texas and Las Vegas were pretty weird.

The book's a riot.

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