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    <body><![CDATA[Audible is doing a great service by issuing many of the original Spenser novels in audiobook form and read by one of my favorite readers:  Michael Pritchard, who also does the Rex Stout mysteries. The Godwulf Manuscript is apparently the first Spenser novel (you know, spelled as in the poet.)<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70285451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This first book in the Spenser series is set in 1973. It is pre-Hark and pre-Susan. He is portrayed as a hard hitting, hard drinking, skirt chasing independent P.I. with a soft spot for the underdog. <br/><br/>Spencer is hired by the president of a local university to find a stolen 14th-Century ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63044659">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently I read/reread all 35 book in the Spenser series.  This was motivated by my finding an early book that had somehow escaped me and realizing how many references one misses if one reads them randomly.  While each book stands on it's own as a story, they are better in order.  There is the intro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46165618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Often in reading these Spenser books, I have wondered about Spenser before Susan.  In 1999, I decided to re-read them all in order . . . foolishly thought I could get it done in 2000. Ha! I finished the last back title just three weeks before the very latest was published. It was a great ride to go ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39606592">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hurray!  I finally read the first Spenser book.  It was<br/>good to see how the series started, but I much prefer the<br/>quicker wit of more recent books.  <br/>Favorite quotes:  &quot;I had discovered new dimensions of boredom.&quot;<br/>and &quot;Her eyes behind the big pinkish eyeglasses wer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47262900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good start for a great detective, this is the first Spenser novel.  It's an introduction into his character and the city of Boston as it relates to him.  The story is a missing valuable manuscript from a university library that takes Spenser, naturally, to the dark reaches of a cult and the mob.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26225967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spenser is a wise-cracking private eye who keeps getting himself knocked around and shot. A writer friend suggested him as a guide to writing PI's.  Probably good advice if pot-boilers are your goal.  By which I mean an enjoyable read, tailored for anyone who likes the genre, and not requiring too m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47887601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed the way I think about detective fiction!!  Mystery is not so much about who done it, but rather it provides a setting in which the hero can strut his noir chops and make cynical comments.  I have never enjoyed hairy chested he-man adventure so much!  I plan on reading a lot more Pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65204684">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Does anybody write snappier dialogue than Robert B. Parker? I've listed his first Spenser novel as a collective for the whole. I own 25 in this series. I can't recall which one references Alton, SC, but it was so much fun reading it and knowing I walked similar steps in Aiken as Parker had done.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read a lot of R.P.Parker books but never this first one in the Spenser series. I've managed to track a copy down and look forward to reading it and see how it all started.<br/><u>December 2008.</u> Ordered this from the reserve stock of the library and read it at the weekend. It's interesting to noti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38080411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My second Robert B Parker book.  Spenser is a comfortable hero to follow in a series.  This is a 1973 copyright and the library book is quite musty.  I found this one minimally dated.  The Gloria Steinem glasses reference... that's about it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spenser is hired by a Boston University to recover an ancient manuscript, the Godwulf Manuscript, that was stolen and ransomed.  In the process of locating this manuscript, people start dying, and a young woman is set up to take the fall for at least one of these murders.  The young woman's parents ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11529475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Spencer novel.  He is a PI with attitude and a scarcastic wit.  His writing style makes me laugh. Great characters. The TV series Spencer for Hire was based on these books.  He's a prolific author and one I enjoy]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book of the popular Spenser series.  The Manuscript is this rare script that is missing and Spenser is hired to find it.  This is an OK book.  Enjoyed the Spenser character though. &quot;Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30881938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've come to read Parker late and he already has so many books in print.  I wanted to read the first Spencer.  1973!  What a culture shock! Cigarettes, drinking, longline bras, girdles, Boston was the hotbed of revolution! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had read this Spenser novel first, I probably wouldn't have continued reading them.  The mystery investigation is clever enough, but the character of Spenser hasn't distilled and is too James Bondish.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first book in a long series and it reminded me a lot of classic hard boiled detective fiction, it was also short. ~ 200 pages, a friend loaned me all 35 of them so I should be reading a lot of them in the comming months.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful start to a series that's gone strong for many years.  Parker's dialogue is fabulous and the characters quite strong.  Spenser (with an &quot;s&quot;) is the working man's hero.]]></body>
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