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Election by Tom Perrotta

September 5, 2020 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr12bingo adaptation, Bingo #3 (vertical, Music to Violet) The movie version of this novel came out in 1999, and I have never seen it in full so I cannot tell you how faithful it is to the book. But I can say that this is a really fun read, and pretty quick. Author Tom Perrotta employs a variety of characters as narrators recalling the events of a few short weeks in the spring of 1992. One might not think that a high school election for […]

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Election by Tom Perrotta

Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta

January 31, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Election – 4/5 The publication of this book is kind of curious. Tom Perrotta had had a book rejected or something like that and they asked him if they had anything else to offer, and he pulled this book out. Before it was even published it was already optioned and filming began. So the book came out almost at the same time as the movie. And this was one of those movies I randomly saw in the theater in high school and was blown away […]

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