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The Inner Circle
The Inner Circle
Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
Fresh on the heels of his New York Times bestselling and National Book Award- nominated novel, Drop City, T.C. Boyle has spun an even more dazzling tale that will delight both his longtime devotees and a legion of new fans. Boyle’s tenth novel, The Inner Circle has it all: fabulous characters, a rollicking plot, an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670033447
ISBN-10: 0670033448
Publication Date: 9/9/2004
Pages: 418
Rating:
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 29 ratings
Publisher: Viking Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Caryn9802 avatar reviewed The Inner Circle on + 91 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
An intricate look at Dr. Kinsey's sex research of the 40s and 50s at Indiana University. Although this novel is fiction, you would never guess it. It reads like a biography. Hard to put down!
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Helpful Score: 1
I really liked this book. It was very thought provoking, distrubing, and an illustration of the importance of science in our lives. It also deals with the topic of obession and where obession ultimatly brings us.
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Helpful Score: 1
I am a fan of Tom Boyle work and I appreciated his style in this book of addressing the once-taboo topic of Alfred Kinsey's research through the eyes of a young man who experiences his sexual and social awakening while working for Kinsey, but I could not get through this one. It sat by the nightstand as a reading in progress for more than a month, but I found myself eventually reading a few pages at a time before putting it down. I finally put it down for good just 2/3 of the way through the story. It is rare that I do not finish a book, but I just could not see the promise of the denouement justifying the effort to get through this one.
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This is a signed copy.
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I've enjoyed all of his books. He takes a real person and event that may be somewhat non-traditional and writes a novel around it. You still end up with a realistic notion of the person and the event/life. A movie had been produced on the same topic as this book--I'm going to watch that next. He's a good writer and easy to follow.
PaulaB avatar reviewed The Inner Circle on + 10 more book reviews
Enjoyable read. It urged me to look into the actual life of Kinsey.
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This book was pretty "out there" but I enjoyed it. I was in college in the 60's when The Kinsey Report came out so I could really recognize some of the characters' thought processes. Not everyone is going to enjoy the story, but Boyle's writing is really funny.


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