Interesting take on the dividing line between history and fiction. Aside from what the book is ostensibly about -- the JFK assassination -- it's also very much concerned with what it is to be a historian and researcher, how much of oneself moves in and out of a fixed story. There are a lot of ways to read this, I think, which makes it really engaging. Also the book itself is very beautiful, with a lot of attention paid toward the design and feel, which enhances the feeling of it being an interactive kind of text. This is something I could definitely reread at some point and have an entirely different experience.

This one didn't really click with me. I'm not sure why.

Brilliant.

Brilliant.

Based on what I read in the recent author visit (I skimmed because I haven't yet read the book) and comments here (I'm particularly looking at you, Karen), I've chosen this for my book club read to read in May. Looking forward to it.

(Just realized that every single note of mine about this one has included the word "fascinating." Which is not a word I use much in describing books, I don't think. But there you go.)

Really a fascinating book — not quite like anything I've read before. And I'm glad we got a chance to quiz the author about it.

What a great combination of historical fact and invention. I was left with an eerie feeling of that refurbished bubbletop limousine being haunted.

Oh my God, I freaking loved this book and I was such a skeptic. I thought it was way overhyped and I didn't really think the whole "mixture of truth and fiction" would work for me at all. Loved. It. Must own Mr. Lincoln's Wars.

A quarter of the way through this, it's just great. I might be halfway through it if I weren't tempted to read so many passages repeatedly. As a Dallasite, the locations are familar to me, it's chilling to think this all took place so close to where I live. Oh, that funeral home owner! The line where he exclaims about the theft of his hearse, oh my god, it made me laugh out loud, it's an example of stuff I hear practically every day.

Starting this today for next week's discussion. Kat was just mentioning French flaps in one thread, I think this is the first book I've owned that has them, talk about confluence.

OK, I'm totally fascinated by this and the whole process of it. Eager to quiz Braver about it all!

I'd give anything for a chance to sit down and read it straight through ...

Set "Mr. Lincoln's Wars" aside for the moment to concentrate on this one before Braver's visit next week. I loved it from the very first sentence but am only a couple dozen pages in.