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Don R. Hamilton

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Bloated, implausible, Annoying

Total
1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-25-24

Every bit as believable as "The Perils of Pauline" or any other silent-movie serial,

I enjoy a good adventure story-- even ones that reach beyond credibility. The Sharpe series for example stack up improbabilities but are respectful of history. But this mess could not insult our intelligence more if our protagonist slashed his way out of Auschwitz with a lightsaber, I do not know why I finished this story. When I did, I could not believe it was only 12 hours long. It felt like 12 weeks.

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Self-conscious Effort at Cozy Mystery/Gothic

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1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-16-24

Performance okay, but cannot save a boring story-- one I could not finish.

The narrator is hard to distinguish from other women (at least in the audio version). The author wishes to set up the mystery-writing central figure as a pompous know-it-all with quirky habits. The result is a crashing bore of a character-- it is really hard to know how the assorted characters surrounding him have not fled into the dark and stormy night, Early on, we learn he is nearing his death and wants someone to memorialize him. I wished he would die and end this nonsense.

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Preposterous story, long and boring

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1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-21-22

Scott Brick, a favorite performer, could not save this turkey. Harlan Coben has improved enormously sine this.

Daytime soaps would be embarrassed to air this ridiculous plot.

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Mechanical, Predictable, Cardboard Characters

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1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-25-22

I listed to almost half this book before I gave up and returned it. In retrospect, I think the narrator kept me going, but in the end, she could not keep this mess pasted together. I think I know how this story ends up-- and think I knew well before I determined that I did not give hoot about what happened to any of these characters.

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Why do so many hate the police? This book tells you

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-05-22

I wavered between shock and dismay. Corruption so brazen that it seems political and career officials had to know or strongly suspect what was going on.

Reading this book tells you why so many people in poor areas hate the police.

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Sympathetic fool battles Hollywood beasts

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-17-21

Good with minor problems. The protagonist, Mia, thrusts herself into danger repeatedly. It is as if she is the female lead in a mad-slasher movie. You know the type. When fleeing a murder with a chainsaw in one hand and an axe in the other, she runs into the corner of a dark basement where no one can hear her scream. Nevertheless, Mia is an endearing character, full of English resolve and kind gestures . She trusts everyone except the ones who tell her not to trust anyone. All the same, this book moves fast and looking forward to the next novel from Catherine Steadman.

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Starts Slow but Big Payoff

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-10-19

Opening is a bit of a slog, something like the first climb of a roller coaster. After that, speed, fun, thrills and amazement. The is a delightful romp through history, bureaucratic idiocy, management jargon, death by PowerPoint, sword fights and more. Imagine a picaresque time with Candide, Sheldon, Princess Leah, and Stephen Hawking. You will not be sorry.

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J.K Rowling Channels Doyle, Chandler and Hammet

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-05-18

Set in today's London, but with shades of Holmes, Chandler and Hammet. Ms. Rowling, writing as Mr. Galbraith, has given a protagonist injured in Afghanistan, an intellect capable of stringing together clues as well as Sherlock, and a private investigator with a sense of justice framed in the sensibilities of film noir. There is even a Watsonian character plopped into a story reminiscent (but not a copy of) The Big Sleep..

Galbraith plays the game fairly. Every single clue was there for us to see, but we have no chance to get ahead of the protagonist. We even get a denouement with the detective outlining the entire case to the killer.

A great detective story that forces me to wade into the series.

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The performance brought it up to a two

Total
2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-10-18

In mad-slasher movies, the audience screams at the woman: "Don't go upstairs! There is no way out!" And, of course, the heroine goes up the stairs. This whole book is like that. In the movies, a few of the women must get killed, but eventually one woman, through courage and pluck and common sense conquers the mad-slasher. Not in this story.

No one could do as many stupid things as our protagonist and survive. Toward the end, I wanted her to get killed. Then I could scream at her: "Your colleagues told you so! I told you so! The mad slasher told you so! This is what you get!"

Prose is clumsy and the plot absurdly convoluted with too many contrived red herrings. I hope this series improved, but I'll never know.

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Opens Strong, Gets Stronger

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-11-18

This fine thriller starts with the strongest opening of any book I have read in years. What follows does not fall off. Catherine Steadman gave me everything I I want in a thriller. I was constantly asking myself the greatest question of all: "And then what happened?"

The story is unlikely, but relentlessly plausible. At several points I asked myself if this character or that would behave as described. Every time I asked the answer was the same-- "Yeah, I know someone who would do that."

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