mystic river by dennis lehane offers roughly 150 pages of perfect prose before the story begins to fall apart - just a little, though. the momentum of the book carries it right through to the end, despite the speed bump experienced by said thinning.
i'm going to watch the movie tonight and see how it holds up against the written word.
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