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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The Best Book of 2006?

posted by on December 19 at 11:49 AM

Over in The Stranger’s book section, we don’t really bang the drums NYT-style about “the best books of the year” and nonsense like that. (True, the current issue of a certain fashion magazine has me on record calling Charles D’Ambrosio’s The Dead Fish Museum is the best short story collection of the year [it’s true!].) But! Everyone’s favorite reviewer-of-books/crasher-of-parties Paul Constant has come down with a verdict on the best book he read all year—and it isn’t on that NYT list. It came out in hardback in January and it just came out in paperback, and… well, take it away, Paul:

I had no idea that this book was so good when it was released at the beginning of the year, and I’m so happy that I read it in December so that I can declare it the best thing I read in 2006.

The book is called The People’s Act of Love. Yeah, the title sucks. You don’t get cannibalism, a cult of castrates, or a silent assassin from that title. Constant’s review is right here.

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I saw Paul Constant sing "Welcome to the Jungle" at a karaoke bar just Sunday night.

Posted by SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS | December 19, 2006 2:35 PM

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