The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia—with hilarious results....
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Jan 19, 2010
Eric_W
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Victor Geishel does it again. Rollicking good noir. Morgan, a visiting professor at a Midwestern university (Geishel assures his colleagues it certainly NOT the one where he teaches creative literature,) wakes up naked next to a young coed he bonked the night before. Problem is she's not waking up having been given some pills by her weed dealer that should really not have been taken with all that alcohol.
Morgan's also teaching poetry to some grad students, one paper he is forced t More...
Morgan's also teaching poetry to some grad students, one paper he is forced t More...
Jan 29, 2012
abo
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Ti chiami Jay Morgan, e proprio non vorrei essere nei tuoi panni.
Un tempo eri un poeta di talento, adesso la tua vena creativa sembra essersi esaurita, e non riesci a buttare giù un verso decente che sia uno. Hai una cattedra (precaria) come professore di Letteratura inglese alla Eastern Oklahoma University, dove cerchi di insegnare la poesia a un branco di alunni privi di qualsiasi sensibilità letteraria. Bevi troppo, cambi ogni anno il college dove lavori e non sai resistere al fascino di una More...
Un tempo eri un poeta di talento, adesso la tua vena creativa sembra essersi esaurita, e non riesci a buttare giù un verso decente che sia uno. Hai una cattedra (precaria) come professore di Letteratura inglese alla Eastern Oklahoma University, dove cerchi di insegnare la poesia a un branco di alunni privi di qualsiasi sensibilità letteraria. Bevi troppo, cambi ogni anno il college dove lavori e non sai resistere al fascino di una More...
Feb 03, 2010
Shullamuth
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This could have been a good book. The premise was fun, the characters interesting, the first 40 pages rocked and rolled, but then the characters never developed further and became less interesting and more devices of plot. By the time I got to the end, I didn't care anymore.
Sep 05, 2010
David
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Wasn't a bad book, the territory was well-ploughed...but for all that it was okay. Worth a look if you don't have anything to do on a rainy afternoon. Some great action scenes.
May 02, 2008
Josh
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Picked it up in a hostel because it wasn't in German, or one of the MANY pulp soldier of fortune novels.
The first third was pretty funny, about a poetry professor who wakes up with a dead student in his bead, and an ex-mafia don that gets rid of the body so that the professor will edit his poetry.
But then once the drug deal goes wrong it just degrades into standard shoot em up snoozcore, the kind that there's way too much of already and isn't particualy interesting for an More...
The first third was pretty funny, about a poetry professor who wakes up with a dead student in his bead, and an ex-mafia don that gets rid of the body so that the professor will edit his poetry.
But then once the drug deal goes wrong it just degrades into standard shoot em up snoozcore, the kind that there's way too much of already and isn't particualy interesting for an More...
Nov 26, 2010
Tasula
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Although the characters were not likeable, moral or even well-intentioned, the book was a lot of fun.
Feb 25, 2008
Ken
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This is Victor Gischler's second book, and it follows a graduate student as he enrolls at a university in Eastern Oklahoma. You might be saying to yourself--didn't Ken work with Victor at such a place--and I know what you're thinking. But we were located in Northeastern Oklahoma. And we didn't have a graduate program. And our dean did not wear women's underpants.
Jul 21, 2009
Christopher
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Read Gischler's "Go Go Girls" and thought I would go back and read some of his older stuff. The book starts off slow and never really picks up from there. The mix of gritty urban life and small college town just never really clicked for me. Somewhat predictable. Not his best effort.
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