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Title: Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibus by Armistead Maupin ISBN: 0-06-016649-5 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 06 November, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My New Best Friends
Comment: These books, these masterpieces of words, feelings, and emotions. . .Do you enjoy getting angry, laughing, and feeling enobled all at the same time? Read these novels. After V.1 (Tales), you begin to know the characters-maybe even like them (Especially Mouse). By V.2 (More) these people become part of you-you begin to envision being part of the converstation-the proverbial fly on the wall. By the last, I wanted to take Michael in a basket and bring him home with me. Please read these novels, you gain a new understanding of the indulgent 70s and the 80s-the decade we paid for all that indulgence. Thank you Mr. Maupin!
Rating: 3
Summary: Stop at "Further Tales of the City."
Comment: What Armistead Maupin spent three books building up, he spends three books knocking down. I was made to care so much for these characters that reading the final three books in the series is like listening to someone bad mouth your family. Everything that I loved about the first three books (the absurdity, the strange innocence, the surrogate family the characters have created for themselves) is gone. In all honesty, my main problem is that the story and the characters simply don't do what I want them to do. The characters simply don't seem to like each other anymore. I realize Maupin was in a very different place in his life when he wrote the final books, but I just didn't enjoy reading them. It's remarkably childish, but in my mind the series ends with book three.
The first three novels get five stars from me, straight across the board. The final three novels with this collection, get about a three. "Babycakes" is pretty good, "Significant Others" is just okay, "Sure of You" is quite bad.
Rating: 2
Summary: Loved the first one...
Comment: I read "Tales of the City" the way a dog reads a bone. I devoured the book in a single sitting and then began a frantic search for my car keys so I could buy the next installment. I love the first three, like the fourth, tolerated the fifth, hated the sixth. The final book seems intent on destroying the magic the earlier books created. Partly it's because the story and characters didn't do what I wanted them to do, but mostly because Maupin seems to have developed a hatred for some of these characters. It's like listening to someone bad mouth your family. I re-read the first three all the time. I'll never read the sixth one again.
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Title: Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin ISBN: 0060924926 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Maybe the Moon : A Novel by Armistead Maupin ISBN: 0060924349 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Night Listener : A Novel by Armistead Maupin ISBN: 006093090X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: More Tales of the City (Showtime Tie-In Edition) by Armistead Maupin ISBN: 0060929383 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title:Further Tales of the City ASIN: B00006FDBN Publisher: Showtime Entertainme Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $40.48 |
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