Patrick JamesElectric Literature wants to know whether year's biggest—as in thickest—books can save your life. To put the prose to the test, they hired a gunmen to fire some rounds at everything from Jonathan Franzen's Freedom to Joshua Cohen's Witz. They even shoot up a Kindle.
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