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Title: Tunnel Vision by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0-440-21752-0 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Paretsky at her incredible best!
Comment: I've read many reviews who fault Paretsky on the believability of this book - but I say who cares? Vic Warshawski isn't meant to be realistic (a real PI would never be as interesting!) Vic is the kind of character everyone can relate to - she's fast and tough, but thoughtful and very kind hearted. Her escapades in Tunnel Vision - including a run in with a rather large aeroplane and a fight with a Romanian muscle mountain - are engaging, exciting and fabulous to imagine. Paretsky is one of the very best crime/thriller writers around today! If this is the first Paretsky you have read - the others are a must!!!
Rating: 2
Summary: Too Hard to Believe
Comment: I've read every Paretsky / Warshawski book but the last (as we speak), but I'm disappointed at the pretty unbelievable action in this one. I often feel like our author and our leading lady have the same problem as Robin Cook sometimes -- when the characters start moving around and breaking into places and being mugged, being tailed, etc. etc., it just gets a little tough to believe. I believe if V.I. stayed put a little more and did a little more cerebral work and a little less hotdogging 'round Chicago, we'd both be happer.
I'm still a fan, but I'd rather see fewer and more well developed characters, a somewhat less complicated yet compelling plot, and surely less social commentary. Letting some reasonable actions speak for themselves is better than rubbing our faces in it. Would like to see Paretsky stop reading Grisham and get back to her earlier self!
Rating: 5
Summary: Not a ladies mystery
Comment: This is my first exposure to Sarah Paretsky. I thought that Tunnel Vision was a first rate mystery. The details in the underground scenes were fantastic. I felt like I was really there, just steps behind the flood. It was so vivid it was terrifying. I can see those chicago tunnels yet! Sarah Paretsky has a good head for technical detail, good as Crichton et. al., hell, good as any man, writer or otherwise. This is by no means a gentile "ladies tea party mystery. "V.I. Warshawsky is tough yet desireable, one cool lady detective. Highly recommended.
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Title: Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440210690 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Guardian Angel by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440213991 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440208459 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 05 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Hard Time by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440224705 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Killing Orders by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440215285 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 05 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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