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Nose: A Novel (2013)

by James Conaway(Favorite Author)

3.15 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1250006848 (ISBN13: 9781250006844)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

review 1: A wine connoisseur friend of mine recommended that I read this book. I really enjoyed it, but I can see some drawbacks. I'm from Northern California, and have been to the wineries plenty of times in both Napa and Sonoma Valley's. You can barely move in Napa without hitting wine snobs and vintners pouring WAY overpriced wine. The book describes this turf pretty well, and I like the story. If you are not into wine, or haven't visited and seen how wine enthusiast act, then you may not find this book very entertaining, hence the reason it got lots of 2 star reviews.
review 2: About half of the book is completely character-driven, yet all of those characters bored me to tears. If Conaway had intertwined the plot-fueled second half with the slow-as-molasses, charact... moreer-driven first half (or even given more atmospheric details to that first half to make me lose myself in beautiful descriptions), I suspect I might have cared more about Les, Sarah, Claire, and C.J. As it was, I didn't much mind what happened to anybody, which made it hard to care about the (rather paper-thin) mystery element. Those who know a lot about wine and Napa Valley culture may enjoy this book more than I did; I have only a passing understanding of wine. less

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