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Nineteen Seventy Four - Community Reviews back

by David Peace
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Dantastic Book Reviews
Dantastic Book Reviews rated it 9 years ago
When a little girl goes missing, crime reporter Eddie Dunford is on the case. Eddie finds a pattern between the girl's disappearance and others. Where will the trail lead and will Eddie have anything left when he gets there?There's a greasy spoon close to my house that serves something called The Me...
O! what Man will do fore a Rime!
O! what Man will do fore a Rime! rated it 11 years ago
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. Nineteen Seventy-Four is about Edward Dunford, a crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post, covering the murder of a young girl. His search for the truth gets him in a lot of trouble, and I'm really not saying that lightly, ho...
sandin954
sandin954 rated it 14 years ago
Extremely dark, with characters who were particularly unsavory, a plot that at times seemed to go off the rails, and some scenes that were too graphic for me. The one upside though was the intensity and style of the writing. It grabbed me from the beginning and compelled me to keep turning the pag...
Only Mostly Dead
Only Mostly Dead rated it 15 years ago
Just read the other reviews/comments on this and don't have much original to add.Very dark (especially for me), compelling story. A little bit implausible plotwise but everything moves so fast that you don't have time to notice until it's over. At least you don't if you read it like I did, basically...
What I'm reading
What I'm reading rated it 16 years ago
Dark, so dark and brutal. Grey and muddy. Violence, corruption and desperation, all rolled up into a story line that grips you and doesn't let go of you until the end. It can not end differently and it's bleak and horrible. I'll definitely read the second novel but not for a few months. The images P...
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