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Title: The Havana Room by Colin Harrison ISBN: 0-374-29986-2 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.86 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great writing, compelling read
Comment: Is there a better novelist crafting well-written, utterly engaging stories about Manhattan than Colin Harrison? I doubt it. He locks you in from page one, dazzles you with superb writing, and fills the pages with daring plot twists. This is a story about a lawyer, who after an accidental mishap, loses his wife, child, career and dignity until he happens to stumble into a midtown steakhouse with a mysterious private room called...you guessed it. This is really a book about losing a child (either through death or divorce), but we're clearly not in Oprah-ville. Some things strain credibility (like how does an unemployed lawyer down on his luck afford lunch and dinner EVERY DAY in a steakhouse?) and the plot gets a little too tricky at times, but it's easy to ignore these faults because of Harrison's huge writing talent which breathes life into his characters and Manhattan. I, for one, couldn't put it down. I wish he would write faster...I can't wait for his next book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Ick
Comment: I'd give this book no stars if I could. I liked nothing about it -- all of the characters are unpleasant and poorly drawn. They don't act like real people or speak like real people, and the things that happen to them aren't things that would happen in real life. The "style" is off-putting as well. I mean, should you really notice that a book has a "style" when you're reading it? Usually, I don't like to speculate on the marketablity of a book (I like to think that writers aren't writing merely for market) but in this case that's the only way to put anything positive in this review. I imagine this book might appeal to a small segment of middle-aged male readers, but it's not bright, brave or new enough to appeal to younger, savvier readers and it's got nothing in it at all that would appeal to women.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not believable story
Comment: This book was easy to read. I read it in two days. But, I was not happy with the storyline. It was not believable. Too many things happened that would not happen in real life. The characters' emotional reactions to the events in the book did not seem appropriate. In other words, horrible things were happening and no one seemed outrageously scared or enraged. This is the book's major flaw.
The story was also a bit predictable. I kind of sensed where things were headed before I turned the pages. However, I kept reading it which indicates it was an okay book.
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Title: Mr. Paradise : A Novel by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060083956 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Paranoia : A Novel by Joseph Finder ISBN: 0312319142 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Narrows: A Novel by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316155306 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Absolute Friends by John le Carre ISBN: 0316000647 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 12 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Train: A Novel by PETE DEXTER ISBN: 0385505914 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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