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Title: Grievance by K. C. Constantine ISBN: 0-446-67849-X Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: trying too hard
Comment: constantine simply tries too hard at the dialogue
lacks the intellectual vigor to pull it off
annoying, distracting, and boring
i will finish the book only as a personal challange
Rating: 1
Summary: A Horrendous Disappointment
Comment: While searching for authors who are in the same elite class as Parker and Sandford, I decided to give Constantine a try. I selected "Grievance" based upon its seemingly interesting content and favorable reviews. "Rugs", the detective featured in the book, as well as the other characters, are boring and the dialogue is extremely distracting. I find Constantine's attempts at capturing "real" language both stilted and juvenile. Through their "working class" dialect (as it's been described), the characters are portrayed as incompetent, ignorant buffoons. Members of the correctional services, as well as social services, should be offended. I cannot discuss the plot, because after almost 150 pages, it didn't really materialize. This is one of the few books that I will not finish. It is, almost without a doubt, the worst book I've ever read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautifully writen and very affecting book
Comment: Constantine captures the sadness of forgotten towns and their citizens like no one I have ever read. America has thousands of these places, old industrial towns like this one, almost closed down farming communities and so on. There are no real villains here--just victims, and their problems, so wrenchingly written about and described in their own words, will break your heart. This book is allegedly a mystery, but that only forms a rough scaffolding for his social commentary which is the real point of the book. A beautifully written, gritty book.
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Title: Saving Room for Dessert: A Rocksburg Novel by K. C. Constantine ISBN: 0892967633 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes by K. C. Constantine ISBN: 1567921922 Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Blood Mud (Mario Balzic Novel) by K. C. Constantine ISBN: 0446676403 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Family Values by K. C. Constantine ISBN: 0892965452 Publisher: Warner Books Inc Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Bottom Liner Blues: A Mario Balzic Novel by K.C. Constantine ISBN: 0892962895 Publisher: Warner Books Inc Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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