The Godwulf Manuscript
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780395180112 (0395180112)
Publish date: January 1st 1974
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Pages no: 186
Edition language: English
Series: Spenser 4 (#1)
Driving back to Boston, I thought about my two retainers in the same week. Maybe I'd buy a yacht. On the other hand maybe it would be better to get the tear in my convertible roof fixed. The tape leaked. I came to this series about thirteen (possibly fourteen) years late, but to be fair, I would hav...
“Kill her. Don’t kill me.” This starts off breezy. Spenser likes to wisecrack. The title is more Lovejoy than Fleming but by chapter 3 wheels are spinning and the corpses are arriving. Then we get into heroin-peddling, mob connections, a rather bizarre black magic episode and naughty old Spencer man...
Re-read of an early Spencer novel from the '70's. This was still enjoyable but I had forgotten that Spencer was not quite as much of a stand up guy as he was written in later novels. The wise cracks were still there but some of the attitudes were less than stellar.3.5 Stars for a long time favorite ...
My husband read several of the books in this series back in the 80s and really liked them so we listened to this one on audible. I was not that impressed with The Godwulf Manuscript, but he says they get better. I found the narrator to be very flat. There was no expression in his voice whatsoever an...
I didn't like Spenser, and that's a problem with a novel starting a series, one in a first person voice where Spenser is supposed to be your intimate guide into the story. If you don't like your narrator and protagonist, then you're going to need a really strong voice or plot or style or characteriz...
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