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Saint Jack by Paul Theroux (1973)

After my glowing review of the movie version of this book I of course set out to read the inspiration, and, now that I've read it, I will say that while it's a great book, its inconsistent tone makes this one of those few situations when the movie adaptation is clearly superior.

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