Michael Chabon’s The Final Solution. “The longer this story settles into my mind, the better and better it is – both as a story, but also technically. Chabon’s writing is of such a high caliber, he can outshine his own plotting, characters, etc. Not showing off, mind you – just so very good that i...
The Final Solution is Michael Chabon’s homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s a delightful short novel with a once-famous but never-named sleuth, now an elderly bee-keeper, drawn into a mystery involving a mute Jewish boy and his African Gray Parrot. In Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, almost the wh...
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. The Final Solution is about an old man, once a famous detective but now resigned to old age, who decides to solve one last mystery: the case of a missing African parrot belonging to a young Jewish boy refugee from Germany during ...
I knew when I picked up this book that it was a Sherlock Holmes tribute, but somehow I’d managed to forget that fact by the time I started reading it. I’m kind of glad I had… I came to the story without expectations, and very much enjoyed it. It might disappoint some readers who expect a more tradit...
I am between three and four stars on this one. On the four stars side, Chabon is a great stylist and one of the better writers of prose I have read in some time. On the three stars side, there is not much story here. This has the plot of a short story fleshed out (to some degree) to a novella length...
I started this just before lunch and finished while having a cup of tea at Cacao's later in the afternoon. So, yes, it's short. And enjoyable. I'm just trying to give myself room to manouevre with the 3 stars. I gave The Yiddish Policeman's Union 5 stars, I have a couple of others of his on the shel...
This was my first book by Chabon and it was the one of two that my friend Chas recommended as a starting point. I must say I enjoy Chabon's style and look forward to reading another. However, I was disappointed with the fairly thin plot and by what I would call a simplistic tribute to the Holmes leg...
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