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Title: Hush Money by Burt Reynolds, Robert B. Parker ISBN: 1-59007-206-5 Publisher: New Millennium Audio Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.63 (68 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: SPENSER IS STILL THE GREATEST EXAMPLE OF OUR SPECIES.
Comment: I READ THIS BOOK LIKE THE OTHER 24 THAT HAVE COME BEFORE IT. THE BOOK TAKES US DEEP INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUSAN AND SPENSER. I THINK THAT THIS IS THE MOST COMPELLING STORY LINE FOR A WHILE. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPENSER AND SUSAN WAS SUPOSED TO FAIL: HOWEVER, JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE PERFECT LOVE OF PEOPLE THAT SHOULD BE TOGETHER IT ALWAYS PROVES OUT. THESE BOOKS ARE NOT ABOUT MURDERS AND CASES, THEY ARE ABOUT A MAN THAT IS A REAL AND COMPLETE MAN THAT LOOKS AT THE WORLD, THAT IS NOT SO PERFECT AND ONLY TOO REAL, AND WISHES THAT HE COULD BRING THE REST OF THE PEOPLE THAT HE DEALS WITH TO HIS LEVEL OF HUMANITY. HAWK IS THE CLOSEST THING THAT SPENSER HAS EVER FOUND TO HIS SELF. BUT HAWK IS ALSO AT THE OTHER END OF HUMANITY THE WAY HE LEADS HIS LIFE. IT IS VERY INTERESTING HOW THESE TOTALLY DIFFERENT MEN, BUT THE SAME INTERACT. THE TRUE MEANING OF THE BOOK IS THE PERFECT LOVE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. I HOPE THAT PARKER LIVES TO BE 100 AND WRITES A BOOK EVERY YEAR. I JUST ASK ONE SMALL THING..WHAT IS SPENSER'S FIRST NAME????????????
Rating: 4
Summary: SPENSER HOOKS UP WITH HAWK, AND WE HAVE A GOOD TIME
Comment: HUSH MONEY Robert B. Parker Putnam $22.95 309 pp.
In this latest installment, Spenser hooks up with Hawk for the entire novel: he also hooks up with Susan Silverman enough times to turn foreplay into fiveplay, sixplay, even sevenplay. Spenser fans need read no further to know that a lot of fun is in store for them.
However, readers less familiar with this venerable series may need a few more facts. Spenser, the one-named private eye, has beaten up bad guys and bandied about bon mots on the bestseller lists for some twenty-odd years, in some twenty-odd novels. A poetry-spouting ex-pugilist with a gastronomic flair, he and his sidekick Hawk could waltz through the entire WWF stable without soiling their sartorial splendor. Hawk, imperturbable quick-tongued African American, was Spenser's "homey" before there was such a word. In HUSH MONEY, Hawk asks Spenser to help an African American professor at Harvard, denied tenure for spurious reasons; he supposedly spurned a young man who then committed suicide. As Spenser soon discovers, the professor was straight, and the boy was killed. Then, while Spenser carefully skirts the pitfalls of political correctness in the groves of academe, his main squeeze Susan entreats him to take on a stalking case for a friend of hers. Before long, Spenser finds himself treading lightly around the grounds of sexual harrassment, as the beautiful stalkee becomes his stalker. Spenser sets up the boy's murderer for he and Hawk to take out, while he sets up his stalker for Susan to take on.
The plot here is as thin as the "villain." However, the real pleasure, the power actually, lies in Parker's wordplay, a form of homage to Spenser's namesake, the great English poet. When Spenser's stalker demands to know what's so great about Susan, he replies without a beat, "The way she wears her hat,...the way she sips her tea." When his nemesis calls him an "unutterable" unnameable, Spenser admires the epithet rather than be insulted. At his best here, Parker spins a three-page tension-filled stake-out around the word "guileful." And, as always, he has a way with the vernacular: Spenser notes that what they have "...almost sounds like a plan; "'Do,' Hawk said, 'don't it.'"
Good writing about people who are good company makes for a good time, and a great read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good issues, not quite hit upon squarely though
Comment: For much of the series, the characters in Spenser books with the notable exception of Rachel Wallace are heterosexual. Of late, though, Parker has introduced detective Farrell, a gay, and in this installment, he examines attitudes toward the gay life style. One problem, though, and this is talked out in the book, is the fact that the majority of people Spenser meets are shady in one way or another, be they of a different ethnic background, or sexual preferance, or whatever.
We do learn of an incident in Hawk's background along with a little more information as we meet his mentor and the mentor's son.
Spenser actually is working two cases here, both pro bono, one for Hawk and the other for Susan. There's irony here. In a previous book, Spenser tried to help her ex-husband, and now for one of her friends. Both times, Susan finds herself betrayed by those she thought she knew.
By the way, I notice more and more criticism lately of Susan Silverman's presence in the books. But she is an essential character. Spenser has a code of ethics and there are times that he feels he has to violate that code in order to do the right thing. This causes enough turmoil that, let's face it, the guy needs a shrink, but is very unlikely to seek one out. His falling in love with one neatly solves the problem. Hence, Susan.
So the story has some failings, but basically should give you four or five enjoyable hours while you read it.
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Title: Sudden Mischief by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 042516828X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Small Vices by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425162486 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Hugger Mugger by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425179559 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Paper Doll by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425141551 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Stardust by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425127230 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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