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Title: The Poet by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0-446-60261-2 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (173 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Read!
Comment: A reporter, Jack McEvoy, looks into the death of his twin brother, a homicide detective who is found dead in his vehicle, an apparent suicide. Doubting the facts, he investigates the circumstances of his brother's death and uncovers cases of assumed suicides of other officers, with one commonality, a suicide note that apparently is a line from a poem. This opens an official investigation for a serial killer dubbed "The Poet." This book may not grab you right off the bat, but after you get into it, you keep turning those pages longer than you intended to. If you like details of crime investigations you will like this book. The main character, Jack, is not a super-hero, but a believable and likeable good guy, who's persistence and determination one has to admire. The pedophile personality in the book is very disturbing, and the murders descriptive, so it is not for the squeamish reader. I liked the fact that the book keeps you wondering as to who the real cop-killer is. The only disappointment was in the killers motivation - when the real killer is revealed, it is unclear what caused the individual to go wrong and created such an evil, warped personality... it is also open to a sequel, but since this was written in 1996 I should think Connelly would have had one out by now if he is going to do one.
Rating: 5
Summary: The BEST mystery/thriller I've ever read!
Comment: This was my first Michael Connelly book I've read. I have never read an author who could add twists and turns to characters and make them believable until now. I have enjoyed Grisham and others but I must put Connelly at the top now. I am now reading The Black Echo to see how his first book in the Harry Bosch series will stack up. The Poet was a real page turner.Connelly's grasp of what the dark side of our society might be like is scary but yet totally within the realm of possibility.I never knew how the book would end until the final page and thats the way it should be.The characters were well developed and made me feel that I had emotions both good and bad towards them.His style of short chapters made for easy but addictive reading.I understand why he won the EDGAR award for this book. READ IT!
Rating: 2
Summary: Plodding along dissappointment
Comment: I feel like I read a different book than many of the other reviewers. A great fan of Baldacci, Grisham, Chrichton, smart writers and surprise twists - this one was a let down. After a foreward by Stephen King, which promises the world - the let down was even worse.
I've never read a Connelly book before - and maybe that makes the difference. The concept was good, the writing okay - but it just plodded along (apparently he hasn't heard that old adage about leaving out things that contribute nothing to the story or character development). Hoping for an eventual payoff after all the reviews and blurbs - I forced myself to stick with it. A final thrown-in "twist" that had absolutely no rational - was the poor payoff. It was basically a lazy writers "surprise twist", one I'd expect from an author if everyone wasn't raving about him. Won't buy another one of his.
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Title: Trunk Music by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0312963297 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Void Moon by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0446609145 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0312958455 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Angels Flight by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0446607274 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0446667900 Publisher: Warner Vision Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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