The Ice Pick

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Summary: Too Bad I'm An ACLU Member
Review: After first picking this book up, I couldn't put it down. Mysteries don't normally intrique me, but McMillen spawned an intricate plot with an enormous amount of humor. The characters are all "straight to the point" people, and the dialogue and emotions are very realistic. This book made me think, laugh, but most of all proud---it was very exciting that my own university advisor published a book, while I was one of his students. I recommend this book to anyone who doesn't want to read the same old boring stuff.

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Summary: Humor and Mystery all in one
Review: After first picking this book up, I couldn't put it down. Mysteries don't normally intrique me, but McMillen spawned an intricate plot with an enormous amount of humor. The characters are all "straight to the point" people, and the dialogue and emotions are very realistic. This book made me think, laugh, but most of all proud---it was very exciting that my own university advisor published a book, while I was one of his students. I recommend this book to anyone who doesn't want to read the same old boring stuff.

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Summary: Too Bad I'm An ACLU Member
Review: I don't know what to do about this book now. I don't want to give it away because someone might think I support this homophobic, misogynist book. I can't give it to a used book store because I really don't want anyone else to read this book. I don't want to send back the book to the author because I don't want any more of my money to be associated with this book, and I can't burn it because I am against censoship. I do think that the author has a right to write. I guess that's what I get for buying a book in a bar. This is my only recourse...write this review: This book is wrong. It is wrong because it was overtly anti-lesbian, it was wrong because it used language to degrade all women, and it was wrong because the entire middle of the book could have been condensed into one page. The positive attributes of this book are that the cover of the book is green, Kurt Vonnigut reviewed the book, and that it mentions Terre Haute.

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Summary: Readers need an open mind to approach this book:
Review: McMillen's Darren Crawford has repetetive and circular arguments dealing with the question as to whether his wife is being unfaithful to him, which can be tiresome. He is just showing his obsessive stubborn side that will not give up the dilema handed to him. So Crawford isn't Sherlock Holmes, but the reader has a chance to share in the detective work. McMillen can appear offensive, but if you can allow some of the more scrufty moments pass by, then it can take on an air of irony. The epilogue hilarious and that alone makes the read worth it.