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Fly Me
Fly Me | Daniel Riley
8 posts | 4 read | 2 to read
A nation on the verge of a new era-and a girl caught between her past and the ever-expanding present. The year is 1972, and the beaches of Los Angeles are the center of the world. Dropping into the embers of the drug and surf scene is Suzy Whitman, who has tossed her newly minted Vassar degree aside to follow her older sister into open skies and the borderless adventures of stewardessing for Grand Pacific Airlines. In Sela del Mar, California-a hedonistic beach town in the shadow of LAX-Suzy skateboards, suntans, and flies daily and nightly across the country. Motivated by a temporary escape from her past and a new taste for danger and belonging, Suzy falls into a drug-trafficking scheme that clashes perilously with the skyjacking epidemic of the day. Rendered in the brilliant color of the age and told with spectacular insight and clarity, Fly Me is a story of dark discovery set in the debauchery of 1970s Los Angeles.
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Misanthropester
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For a 1st novel, this is promising but ultimately middling-poor in quality. A more astute editor would've shaved this down by at least a hundred pages & far too often what is intended to be meaningful is actually trite or rather purple prose.

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Misanthropester
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A nice element in this is how Pynchon becomes the dude-bro bible that the mc Suzy has to put up with

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Misanthropester
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There are passages seeming to dance on the edge of merit, at any moment about to dive into pretentiousness or emerge poetic

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Misanthropester
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There's a stylized dullness to this story that's making it difficult to endure it

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LibrarianRyan
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#bookmail 1. Fly me looks interesting.

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NovelVisits
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There was a lot to like about Fly Me, Daniel Riley's fun debut. Set in So Cal in 1972, the book tells the story of Suzy, a new college grad turned stewardess. She falls into every possible cliche of the era, including drug smuggling. The start was slow and the ending crazy, but the middle made up for it. Full review here: http://www.novelvisits.com/fly-me-daniel-riley-review/

Misanthropester I'm finding this woefully uneven & somewhat disinteresting but for a first novel I suppose I shouldn't be too hard 7y
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