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Title: Their Wildest Dreams by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0-345-43939-2 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fast, Fun and Clever!
Comment: The pace of this book is much quicker than Mr. Abrahams' previous efforts. Additionally, he does a masterful job of injecting subtle, self-deprecating humor into the main character, Nick Loeb.
I thought the author's utilization of Amazon.com's book review feature was particularly clever.
The dialog is sharp and realistic, with many surprises along the steadily developing plot.
I have read several of this author's previous books, enjoying The Fan and The Tutor. I found Revolution #9, The Perfect Crime and Lights Out to be a bit slow and tedious.
This novel is definitely Mr. Abrahams' most entertaining effort to date.
Rating: 4
Summary: Character rich increasingly fast paced novel
Comment: Several stories of varied characters converge in a literally explosive climax in this extraordinarily well written novel. On the Mexican US border outside of Tucson, lives Mackie Larkin, a divorced housewife who dreams of owning a dance studio but after a failed real estate deal, desperately needs money just to make ends meet. Her daughter, Lianne falls for an older man who works at the same ranch her father does. Nicholas Loeb is a mystery writer who travels to rural Arizona to get hands on experience in law enforcement. Buck Samsonov is a crime lord who runs a couple of strip joints in the region. All their paths converge in this very clever crime novel. The question is who will be on top in the end.
After a slow start the plot becomes increasingly fast paced once we get to know each of the characters and their separate problems. Alternate chapters are used initially to reveal the individual characters. Part of the change in momentum occurs when the characters' lives converge making the separation by chapter no longer necessary. The characters, a major strength of the work, are all original creations. The conclusion is a bit problematic and unrealistic. However, this one is well written and very much worthy of a reader's time.
Rating: 2
Summary: A Little Fun to Read, but typical airplane book: No depth.
Comment: An author can often choose any kind of book he wants to write. Peter Abrahams (PA) breezes through this sometimes interesting story with cliched dialogue and a plot that should have some edginess, given its inherent nature, but falls flat almost all the time. This book also struck me as being very anti-male, probably soup de jour in PA's neck of the woods. The ex-husband is a jerk; the chief cop is dumb and owned by the villains. The villains of course are all male. The daughter's boyfriend is nice, but mentally dull. The author in the story (read: book within a book) is trying to write a novel for which he is particularly unsuited (only star appearances on the Today show or with Diane Sawyer or Oprah...ad nauseam will sell his book). He is saved in the end by the unbelievable heroics of the daughter, who is Supergirl incarnate. One nice thing was the lead bad guy is Russian, not German ... I kind of think PA is playing a joke on his readers: ordinary housewife becomes extraodinary stripper (a transparent implausibility); her daughter who saves the day; the obtuse writer whose life is turned around by a reader/reviewer (e.g. moi) on Amazon. This book will stay in my mind more than one minute solely because of the ways prudish PA limply describes how stripper/dancers get the big money when performing. Get thee to a rocking strip joint gallant author PA and gain some authenticity in your writing. Other problems: obligatory lesbian strippers (authentic, for once); as already noted: unsubtle to the max super teen girl; the happy ending: good girls and guy should be drawn and quartered, which would have happened if the reality established in this novel had been adhered to. Turbo lets lil' one save the day. Unreal. Unreal. Readers who like this book won't read Ruth REndell, so I won't recommend her. But Michael Connelly, please, read him and get depth, sound characterization, a good plot (almost all his novels) and great prose.
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Title: The Tutor by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0345439414 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Revolution #9 by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0345445805 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Perfect Crime by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0345426800 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Last of the Dixie Heroes by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0345439406 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Fan by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0345445791 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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