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I read Kitchen Confidential in 2001 on a flight back from Bangkok and I have bought every Bourdain book the week it came out for 23 years. I assumed The Reader would be a greatest-hits package and I'd already own everything inside. I was wrong. The France 1973 diary spreads alone, with his handwriting and marginalia and the food sketches, are worth the hardcover. The Joel Rose graphic novel piece was something I knew existed and had never seen in book form. This is the volume I'm going to keep on the shelf when the paperbacks finally fall apart.
Mark, Lifelong Fan, 52. Illustrative composite based on AV-S-1