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Title: A Stab in the Dark by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0-380-71574-0 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Snore.. snort.. huh? I guess I went to sleep
Comment: I made it the whole way to Jan's and Matt's "enlighting" [not very... cut me a break Block], trite, hack conversation about if he was a drunk or not and realized I was going to sleep. I made a firm decision and tossed the book into the get rid of this asap pile and went and found something else to read.
Block reads like "she said... he said..." conversations. Dry comes to mind. As I said in a previous review if you really hate "show not tell" in novels this is the writer for you. He does no showing at all. I feel as if I am listening to someone outline what might be a very good book. I had read another book of his which had the same fate as this one: halfway I tossed it into the get rid of this do NOT pass on to someone you like pile.
Matt comes across as the most pathetic attempt at an alcoholic I have encountered in novels [or in real life and I use to work Drug and Alcohol units]. He meanders aimlessly thru his addiction and Block meanders aimlessly thru the plot. Well suited for each other. It's a shame. As I said previously there is great potential for a GREAT story here. It was wasted more than Matt ever was in his drinking days.
IF you must try Block, I suggest the library.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Hardboiled Fiction
Comment: This is the 4th book in the Matt Scudder series and is a very appropriately titled book, with Scudder investigating a stabbing murder that happened 9 years ago. He doesn't particularly look forward to the case but, with nothing better to do, he begins to sift through old ground in between cups of bourbon-laced coffee.
The Matt Scudder character is the important feature of this book as we follow his tortured journey around New York City chasing up clues in a long-dead case. He unearths clues and leads as a good detective should, but it's his battle with the bottle that proves the most fascinating story. He finally gets a good hard smack across the chops in this book which may help put him on the road to sobriety, at least, it scares him enough to consider he may need help.
This is another fine example of an outstanding modern hardboiled mystery, just part of an outstanding hardboiled series.
Rating: 5
Summary: Scudder sees the err of his alcoholic ways...
Comment: This is probably the best Matt Scudder book I've read yet. It takes us to a time when Scudder drank but never thought about his habit as something that was gradually controlling his life. He picks up a very interesting case, a particularly greusome murder that slipped through the cracks 9 years earlier and is only now receiving a true investigation. When the beautiful young girl turns out to be anything but an innocent victim, her father (Scudder's client) fires him and refuses to go on cooperating with the investigation. It's too late for Matt, though. He's onto something here, and he knows it. Scudder won't rest until he's solved the case, or at least finished himself off with a case of bourbon.
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Title: In the Midst of Death by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380763621 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Out on the Cutting Edge: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380709937 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380763656 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block ISBN: 038076363X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Eight Million Ways To Die by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380715732 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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