Roger Conner

Somewhat rambling

Revisado: 06-09-20

The suspect becomes clear fairly early, but what crime he has committed remains a mystery almost to the end. Maybe too many scenes that don’t move the acrion. Susan‘s “I have a Harvard PhD“ gets overworked, for example but at one point she does contribute physically to her own rescue

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Complex love affair and drug trafficking

Revisado: 08-07-18

Spencer is stumped for quite a while trying to untangle the web of romantic jealousies and betrayals that underlie the drug trafficking in Boston.

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Narrator is NOT Spenser!

Revisado: 05-21-18

The narrator does not give a performance--though few do. But the worst part (not his fault) is that I can in no way picture Spenser in the personality of the narrator's once.

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Big chase one of the best; love stories painfully genuine

Revisado: 02-21-18

Final scene flips expectations without enough foreshadowing. Some of Spenser's meditations get long winded and repetitive. Hawk is surprisingly ineffectual. So Parker seems to have been playing with playing against expectations. In spite of that it's a good read and interesting to see a different woman react to him as a lover.

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Democracy thwarted by the US government an the New York Times

Revisado: 02-07-18

And amazing and still timely exposure of not only how the military is forced to circumvent laws made obsolete by changing alliances, but also how the press will deliberately twist a story to heighten victimization—even the NYT.

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Rather a gem.

Revisado: 02-07-18

Wonderfully read story which includes a devastating satire on the casually wielded power of the press as it existed up until a couple of generations ago. Plenty of satire of lawyers and government officials as well. But it is in the characters and what money does to skew conscience that the story hinges.

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Beyond Bertie Wooster

Revisado: 10-01-17

It turns out that Wodehouse can write clever, witty, imaginative stories, full of Wooster-type humor with an amazing variety of people an situations.

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I don't understand the glowing reviews

Revisado: 02-11-16

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Someone who likes sentimental soap operas with sort of tragic endings.

What was most disappointing about Lauren Groff’s story?

The dialogue is banal. The story rests mostly on the pillars of meticulously ana;used sex scenes. The male character's suddenly revealed genius and unexplained success as a playwright are as unrealistic as his ending. The prose is without without distinction except for occasionally labored flights of imagery, but well-sprinkled with clichés.

Did Will Damron and Julia Whelan do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

I guess they did as well as anyone could with the bland uniformity of the prose.

What character would you cut from Fates and Furies?

Both.

Any additional comments?

I was warned that the first half (the man's story) was pretty dull, but the second half (the woman's story) was really good. I confess that I was so put off by the first 60% that I just sampled the last part after having read a summary. Although the plot acquired more variety, the faults of prose and dialogue did not tempt me to slog through to the end.

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Astounding voice actors

Revisado: 04-09-14

Would you consider the audio edition of The Name of the Rose to be better than the print version?

Yes, actually. The vocal characterizations helps enormously in keeping track of the several personalities.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Name of the Rose?

The theological debates among the monks, which were quite authentic as I understand. Again hearing them dramatized added greatly to what might otherwise seem rather dry.

Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?

Hard to choose. They were all good.

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Terrible voice actor

Revisado: 02-08-14

What did you like best about Playmates? What did you like least?

The reader makes no vocal distinction between characters. His attempt to portray black dialect would be funny if it didn't spoil the reading so. Get the book
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What didn’t you like about Michael Prichard’s performance?

See above

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