by Robert B. Parker
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...
Really liked...first of Spenser novels. Curious though because Parker said in interview(s) later that he didn't create first name for Spenser. However, on page 87 of paperback, Spenser (as I read it) is called Jim by two cops escorting him from campus. Only reference to Spenser's first name. Per...
The Godwulf Manuscript has gone missing from the university and Spenser's been hired to find it. But what does the stolen and ransomed manuscript have to do with the murder of a dope dealer, seemingly by his girlfriend? And can Spenser figure out what is going on before being murdered himself?This...
Audible is doing a great service by issuing many of the original Spenser novels in audiobook form and read by one of my favorite readers: Michael Pritchard, who also does the Rex Stout mysteries. The Godwulf Manuscript is apparently the first Spenser novel (you know, spelled as in the poet.)Some fo...
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