The Dining Car

I really liked the characters in this book and so even though the plot wasn't that great I still kept reading. Jack was a college athlete who got drafted by due to an accident he had to reinvent his life and the book is about him going to work for a magazine writer as a bartender. Jack's growth and......more

The narrator of this novel is a once-famous college football star whose career ended after an accident. Once he recovers, he is employed as a bartender on an elaborate, old-fashioned railroad dining car owned by a rich, alcoholic, eccentric man. This character is modeled after legendary Lucius Morri......more

I really wanted to love this book, and at first, I did. While the characters were mostly likeable, the location was thrilling. A contemporary story set aboard an elegant 1932 Pullman railcar, the story promised intrigue, with one of its’ main protagonists a fastidious culinary magazine writer named......more

Annoying characters and a very thin plot sadly makes this a bit of a waste of a great concept and setting. This has virtually nothing to do with luxury rail travel or fine dining - it's about an old, rich drunk journalist who writes a food column which is supposed to have a huge fan base although the......more

GNAB I received a free electronic copy of this novel from Netgalley, Eric W. Peterson and Huckleberry House (Indie) in exchange for an honest review. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. This was a wonderful novel, based loosely on the life and times of Lucius Morris Bebbe. Peterson's p......more