I liked this, but I think I'm one of the few who didn't love it.
I liked this, but I think I'm one of the few who didn't love it.
The impact of this one built with each chapter. I didn't get far in my first attempt at this book years ago. The style is Hemingwayesque. Spare prose, mostly simple sentence structure, repetitive phrasing, a rather staccato rhythm. I felt on first read that it was too dry, too much like a novelized ...
Beautifully written, you can see Bradbury stretching his skill here. It is pretty amazing to think that this was written more than 60 years ago. It is definitely a product of its time with all the pipe smoking and "Golly, gee" dialogue. Still, as a characterization of the post-war attitudes of progr...
A pretty good debut PI novel set in the Windy City. The author was the creator of the A & E TV series "The Cold Case Files" and the plot centered on an old rape case. The audio was read by Stephen Hoye whose tone I did not care for at the beginning of the story but did get used to.
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