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225: A Very Different Idea of Fun

Published: Dec. 13, 2014, 10:15 p.m.

b'It\\u2019s your usual detective story, with a guy obsessed with a mystery, a femme fatale, and\\u2026 an asteroid that\\u2019s about to kill most of the living things on the earth? That\\u2019s the premise for \\u201cThe Last Policeman\\u201d by Ben Winters. We liked the book (and its two sequels) quite a lot, though that comes with a big caveat based on what your definition of \\u201cfun\\u201d is, and apparently if you\\u2019re a soulless monster or not. Plus: What are we reading?'