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Title: Body Language by James W. Hall ISBN: 0-312-96912-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (25 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Nowhere near up to Hall's standard
Comment: Ever since I picked up a dog-eared copy of Squall Line from my local library I have been hooked on James Hall's sometimes poetic, always inspired novels. But Body Language just can't cut it. A damaged lead character - as per for Hall - who finds a kind of redemption at the end is all well and good. However, the need for love and it's final release is neither wonderfully climactic nor - despite the purple prose - all that smouldering. Instead the love interest is a not particularly interesting nor well-drawn character, and his presence allows for an end that is a little too pat, a little too easy. Plotwise it really is straight out murder mystery via Hollywood - only two characters unaccounted for to suspect, and one she falls for. Not seen that one before... And four characters who are built up over the novel are dispensed with in such a cursory manner as to even make the excuse that Hall is showing us the random brutality of violence a too easy a way out. It just comes across as lazy writing. And that is the crux of my problems with this book. Once Hall wrote like the poet he is - a little Lee Burke with a left of centre Florida outlook. Here the language is throwaway and forced and the characters, on the whole, simplistic. And for someone who writes a crazy plot about strange people - well, why the vicious dig at Hiaasen? (At least that is how it appears. One character is reading a column in the Miami Herald from a hotshot star columnist who 'discovered sarcasm in grade 5' and is having a go at Florida real estate developers. Sounds like Carl to me, and Hall has a sustained go at him.) Too many novelists can't sustain their invention, but I can only hope I see Hall back on form by his next work.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Book James W. Hall has written!!!!
Comment: When I heard that James Hall had written another book, I was all set to read another adventure of the Key Largo Beach Bum, Thorn. I must admit I was a little disappointed when I learned that Thorn would not be appearring in Body Language, but nevertheless I thoroughly enjoyed the book!
Think you got problems? Consider Alexandra Rafferty, Crime Photographer for the Miami Police Department.
She was sexually assaulted at age 11.
Her husband is not only having an affair, but he's also planning an armoured car heist.
Her best friend is on the hit list of every anti-Castro Cuban organization in Miami.
Her live-in Dad is sufferring from severe memory lapses due to Alzheimers Disease.
She's on the run from a pair of gun-toting Whack-O's, one who's built like a Rhino and the other keeps a cochroach as a pet.
With all that on her mind how can she possibly help the police to capture a serial rapist? James Hall spins a suspense filled tale that takes the readers from the seedy back streets of Miami to the white sandy shores of the Florida Panhandle.
This book will keep you on the edge of your seat up to the final paragraph! If you've never read anything by James W. Hall, Body Language is a great place to start!
Rating: 3
Summary: Not up to par
Comment: Read Under Cover of Daylight, Buzz Cut or Mean High Tide if you want a good book by this author. This one has some great possibilities, but it just doesn't quite live up to those. Situations were too contrived and obvious. Check it out of the library and you will get your money's worth. :-)
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Title: Rough Draft by James W. Hall ISBN: 0312974922 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Under Cover of Daylight by James W. Hall ISBN: 0393321258 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Red Sky at Night by James Hall ISBN: 0440225744 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 08 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tropical Freeze by James W. Hall ISBN: 0393318958 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Blackwater Sound by James W. Hall ISBN: 0312986289 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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