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Title: God Save the Child by Robert Parker ISBN: 0-440-12899-4 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The first of two perfect partners for Spenser ...
Comment: Although, Spenser continues his ogling ways, he meets his match in Susan Silverman. You know the repartee can only develop between these too, and you know that Spenser sees a certain toughness in Susan that compliments his own.
After two books, Parker continues to put the fun in dsyfunctional, as he creates the perfect suburban couple trying to be something they're not (a recurring them in most Spenser novels). Yet, he leaves enough room for redemption, and the beginnings of reformation and restoration.
Once finished, I couldn't wait to continue Spenser's journey, and see where Parker would go next. My annual ritual of moving through the series - for 10 years now - never fails to satisfy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic Spenser!
Comment: Robert B. Parker, God Save the Child (Berkeley, 1974)
One of the great enduring mysteries in the literary world-and it says quite a bit that a piece of genre writing has had such a pervasive cultural effect-is the first name of Robert B. Parker's longstanding favorite good guy, Spenser. What short memories we have, for it's revealed in God Save the Child, the second Spenser novel. (The book contains the one scene where someone says his first name and isn't later contradicted. And no, I'm not going to tell you what it is.) Not only that, but it also pinpoints Spenser's age, which is something that's come up in more than one recent review. And yes, he is getting up there. (I won't tell you that, either. But pretty soon, the A&E made-for-TV movies will have to case Don Ameche and Garrett Morris as Spenser and Hawk.) For any Spenser fan, those two things alone should be reason enough to go back and correct any error they may have made by not reading this at their earliest opportunity. To cap off the must-read things about this book, it's where Spenser first meets Susan. Okay, get thee to a bookstore and get to work.
In this case, Spenser is hired to find a runaway kid. After a few days of wheel-spinning by both Spenser and the cops, a ransom note turns up; the kid's not a runaway, but a kidnap victim. Spenser enlists the help of a smart-aleck state cop and the kid's guidance counselor (Susan Silverman), and things go about the same way they usually go in detective novels. Those used to later Spenser novels will find the prose much drier than the average Spenser novel; whether Parker hadn't yet developed the distinctive Spenser style or whether the publisher was leaning on him to sound more like Ross MacDonald is anyone's guess. But don't worry, you won't be hurting for wisecracks, culinary commentary, and other such Spenserian traits.
While the book itself is vintage Parker, it's plain to see that the publisher was still thinking of Parker in dime- novel terms back in 1974. Hopefully reprints have corrected some of the more egregious errors of spelling and grammar, but if you happen to get your hands on the mid-seventies Berkeley paperback (...), be prepared for some painfully obvious screwups, if you happen to notice such things. I considered using the book to start a bonfire the second time Spenser "payed" a bill. (Amazing that they didn't spell his name Spencer throughout.) Obviously, it's not a knock on Parker, but still worth noting for those who get annoyed by proofreading errors in their pulp fiction. ****
Rating: 4
Summary: Parker gets to second base...
Comment: In this second Spenser novel, Parker finally gets off running. The first one was a bit sketchy, with Spenser being drawn with large strokes, but not yet as solid a character as he becomes here.
You don't really read these novels for the plot; you read them for the great dialogue, the humor, the repartee, and Spenser. Okay, the story's good as well - Spenser looks for a missing boy, after the parents hire him, but ends up finding more than he bargained for.
In this novel, Spenser meets his lady-love, Susan, who has an important role throughout much of the later novels.
A fine Spenser, and Parker is now at cruising speed. Read the rest of the series.
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Title: Mortal Stakes by Robert Parker ISBN: 0440157587 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Promised Land by Robert Parker ISBN: 0440171970 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 05 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Judas Goat by Robert Parker ISBN: 0440141966 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Early Autumn by Robert Parker ISBN: 0440122147 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 05 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Looking for Rachel Wallace by ROBERT PARKER ISBN: 0440153166 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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