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Title: Kill Flash by T.J. MacGregor ISBN: 0-345-33754-9 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Kill Flash - over-long, irritating and tedious
Comment: When I got to p.18, and 'her nimble fingers were quickly peeling a kiwi fruit' - have you ever tried peeling a kiwi with your fingers? - I had an ominous premonition that this book would be less than compelling reading. My expectations even at that level turned out to be over-optimistic. The book slowly began to acquire characters whose sole purpose seemed to be to play a part in some future unlikely twist in the plot, and when the guy supposedly shooting a documentary about the making of the film, (and using a video camera) replied to a question that he would 'probably shoot 8 or 10 thousand feet of film (in a video camera?), even darker suspicions began to form. She had already made it fairly obvious that she had (has?) approximately the level of knowledge about film-making that one can pick up from a day trip at one of the film studios, but the final exasperations arrived when there began appearing at regular intervals words which no-one outside of lexicographers would ever have come across, let alone use. The list includes: enjambment, p.72; sparges, p.77; the rapacious(?) set of his handsome face, p.80; the big tsunami(?) in the sky(?), p80; impudicity, p.86; chatoyant, p.100; refulgent, p.109; immixed, p.129; spicules p.132; coriaceous, p.142; erubescent, p.155; crescive, p.179; pother, p.185; tristfully, p.211; etiolated, p.248; caligenous p.281; gloam, p.325; exiguous, p.347; pelagic, p.350; perdurable, p.351; and colubrine, p.367. Other gems include Ms. Bedford refusing to answer questions 'unless you've got a warrant,...' (police need a warrant to search, not question) Also a waitress serves reporter Moreno a demitasse of Cuban coffee (p.299). A demitasse? To a hard-bitten reporter? Cuban coffee? In America? Things must have liberalized while I wasn't looking. Ultimately, though, one becomes totally unconcerned with what happens to the cardboard cut-out characters as they pursue their allotted tasks in the rambling rat-maze that has been constructed for them, and all that kept me grimly wading through to the end was the determination not to miss any of the sprinkling of two-dollar words that proves that the author has a well-thumbed thesaurus: unfortunately she is unaware that the gratuitous use of obscure words makes her the literary (if that isn't a too over-complimentary classification) equivalent of a preening and pretentious name-dropper.
Rating: 3
Summary: Trashy Mystery
Comment: This was a typical trashy mystery, lots of sex, violence and mayhem. The only redeeming feature was Mike and Quin, the detectives. Their relationship and insights were great
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Title: Death Sweet by T.J. Mac Gregor ISBN: 0345337530 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Other Extreme by T. J. MacGregor ISBN: 0786013222 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Hanged Man by T. J. MacGregor, T.J. MacGregor ISBN: 0786006463 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Out of Sight by T. J. MacGregor ISBN: 0786013230 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Black Water by T. J. MacGregor ISBN: 0786015578 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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