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Title: Thieves' Paradise by Eric Jerome Dickey, Bill Andrew Quinn ISBN: 0-7927-2563-8 Publisher: Chivers Sound Library Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 10 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (118 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Count your fingers after you read this book . . .
Comment: to make sure that you weren't somehow beamed into the pages of Thieves' Paradise without your knowledge or consent or got conned on your way out at the end by that sweet talking Dante Black. Eric Dickey always takes us in a different direction than most writers, yet he keeps us grounded in reality. He even keeps us off balance by writing novels that don't resemble each other in any shape, form or fashion. Who have you read lately who tells the story of a bodyguard's life and makes you enjoy it? Dickey's "got jokes" galore and snappy jargon. Always expect Dickey to be unique. Now he's telling the story of a thinking bodyguard/hustler and we can even like this con artist without thinking about the stereotypical muscleman image that characters such as this usually conjures up. That's because Dickey catches us before we start those preconceived notions and tells us the heart wrenching story of Dante Black's adolescent trauma.
And who else have you read lately (male or female) who can write... (not love) scenes that makes you sweat! I've read all of the major male African American fiction authors, but nobody and I do mean nobody can whip it on you like Eric Dickey. Just ask Pam (Dante's love interest/... actress/partner in crime) who is much older than Dante, but admits that even with her experience with men she can't keep up with Dante's 25-year-old sex feasts. Many women would die tryin'!!
The other cast of characters become someone you've met before but can't remember where. They are just that familiar and comfortable, but don't let me convince you. Just read the first chapter and then try to put the book back on the shelf. Betcha can't read just one!
Rating: 4
Summary: Reader's Paradise!
Comment: Oops.
I've done it again. I rarely fall in love with a writer on their debut effort. 'Thieves' Paradise', if I'm not mistaken, is Eric Jerome Dickey's 7th novel? I've been asleep at the literary wheel.
With the exception of the prologue (which was a dramatic and necessary bit of background - though I would rather have gotten it a little later in the story), I was hooked from chapter one by his cool, gritty style.
From 'cool hand' Dante & Scamz, to grotesgue Big Slim and the sad Pam; from smokey and murderous dives to lifestyles of the rich Cribs & Clubs . . . the characters and settings in Thieve's... are so real you can see them, smell them, and feel their pain.
I don't know if anyone else has ever experienced this---a moment when you simple must make eye contact with the writer and say, 'You go, Boy!' or 'You nasty MF!'---but at least once in every chapter, a certain scene, turn of phrase or just SOMETHING caused me to flip the book to EJD's picture on the back cover and express some sort of dramatic emotion. The book is THAT GOOD!
Now I'm not one to ruin a plot, so simply put . . . it's about crime, scams, and the things that we sometimes must do to make a buck. But it's the fullness and richness of the characters (mostly Dante & Big Slim, some of the other's are less 3-dimensional... but that's OK 'cause it works), which makes 'Thieves' Paradise' my most engaging read of 2003 . . . to date.
The good thing about getting my teeth into E. J. Dickey at this stage of his game is that I can now backtrack and absorb the first six novels.
Big Ups to Eric Jerome Dickey, you've got one more fan, not that you need it, I'm sure.
Rating: 3
Summary: A page turner, yet missing something
Comment: I found this to be a good book, like most of Eric's work. However, the characters were somewhat under developed. Pam, for instance, is sitll a question mark as far as I'm concerned. This book could have used a little less setting description and more character dialog.
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Title: Naughty or Nice by Eric Jerome Dickey ISBN: 0525947760 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 27 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey ISBN: 0525947248 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 12 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Liar's Game by Eric Jerome Dickey ISBN: 0451201345 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Friends and Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey ISBN: 0451188039 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Between Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey ISBN: 0451204670 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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