Fat Ollie's Book
by Ed McBain
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Read in February, 2003
I've read all the 87th precinct novels and found over the years that I enjoy the detectives of the Eight-Seven, their cases and their personal lives. I, however, don't like Ollie Weekes and am dismayed that he's playing an increasingly larger (no pun intended) role in the series. And it isn't because of his bigoted views, although they play a part, it is because he's not an interesting character. He's one-dimensional and has not a single quality that makes him an interesting "person" t...more
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Read in January, 2005
This was the first Ed McBain book I read and I didn't expect to like it much ... residual English prof snobbery, I guess. In truth, it wasn't a very accurate introduction to the 87th Precinct because it's pretty late in the McBain oeuvre and focuses almost perversely on an ancillary character. It's a little more ... dare I say ... literary than some of the other 87th Precinct novels. There are some interesting metafictional elements here, but Pale Fire it ain't.
So what I can say? No...more
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Not my favorite, but my husband liked it. Features Fat Ollie, a detective from an adjoining precinct of the 87th. Ollie is about as politically incorrect as a person can get and still preform his duties and not get sued. This book develops his character.
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As much as I like the 87th Precinct series and Steve Carella, I don't like a book that centered around Fat Ollie. He's a bigot and not a very good detective. It's difficult to have any sympathy for a guy like that.
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Read in January, 2007
recommends it for:
everyone
This book is part of Ed McBain's popular 87th Precinct series. This particular book focuses on one of his characaters Ollie Weeks a disreputable, bigoted, dirty-mouthed cop.
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Read in September, 2008
I like Ed McBain. This is good. Not one of my favorites.
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So clever and funny, the situations and thoughts of characters...
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