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Title: CONTROL by WILLIAM GOLDMAN ISBN: 0-440-11464-0 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 15 March, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Control
Comment: I have read other William Goldman novels "Brothers" and "marathon man" which were great!! So to be honest compared to those other novels this was quite a dissapointment. I really didn't buy that mind control, time travel stuff. It was just too confusing for my liking and really seemed not to make any sense. The novel was filled with too many extremely dull moments with Edith going in the past with overly long descriptions. Most characters were likable, but so many names were tossed around i just lost track. New characters were introduced towards the end and I quite frankly didn't care about them.
Now on to the good stuff. I have to say the book was quite humorous at times. Billy Bob had his very funny moments.... The action sequences were very detailed and quite entertaining and I really liked the friendship between Eric and Haggarty. The idea of having these characters then connecting the stories together worked quite well at times. Generally the novel was decently entertaining, but it just seemed very inconsistent. One part would be extremely intense, while later on it turns into a ... bore fest.
In general it's a decent novel. It however doesn't measure up to William Goldman's other novels.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very, very good book
Comment: I just read the other reviews here, and I am in agreement with them - I just want to add a few words about Goldman's style. His style is absolutely captivating. He is one of the few authors I read (Trevenian also comes to mind here) not so much to see what he says, but, rather, how he says it. The book has so many stylistic gems that there is no room here to recount them all. However, I must say that the "beer identification" scene is prehaps the funniest piece of prose I have ever read. When Hagerty claims that the actor's name (Mifume, I think) is the only other Japaneese name other than "Hirohito" that he could think of, and even Eric would not have fallen for that, I swear I laughed out loud for about a week. Very, very entertaining read.
Rating: 3
Summary: great characterization in search of a plot
Comment: As already noted in the reviews, Control has some wonderful characters-- the housewife painter Edith Mazursky, the killer Billy Boy, the erudite cop Eric. Unfortunately, the plot itself (a convoluted conspiracy theory about reincarnation and time travel) doesn't hold up and feels rather hackneyed. Possibly that's because the ground has been covered so much since Control was written.
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Title: Magic: A Novel by William Goldman ISBN: 0440051592 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: August, 1976 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Silent Gondoliers by William Goldman ISBN: 0345442636 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Brothers by William Goldman ISBN: 0446512796 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: February, 1987 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
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Title: The Color of Light by William Goldman ISBN: 0446512745 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Boys and Girls Together by William Goldman ISBN: 0345439732 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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