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Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs. The Ugly American (Akashic Noir)
by
Ken Bruen ,
Eoin Colfer , John Rickards , Ken Wignall , Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author) , James O. Born , Sarah Weinman , Gary Phillips
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Brand new stories by: Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Jason Starr, Laura Lippman, Olen Steinhauer, Peter Spiegelman, Kevin Wignall, Jim Fusilli, John Rickards, Patrick J. Lambe, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, James O. Born, Sarah Weinman, Pat Mullan, Gary Phillips, Craig McDonald, Duane Swierczynski, Reed Farrel Coleman, and others.
Irish crime-fiction sensation Ken Bruen and cohorts s...more
Irish crime-fiction sensation Ken Bruen and cohorts s...more
Paperback, 250 pages
Published
March 1st 2006
by Akashic Books
(first published December 31st 2005)
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So, yet another installment in Akashic's city-based NOIR anthology series (I'm not reading them as fast as they put them out, so until they slow down I'll never catch up). Thank you very much public library ILL!
As I've said before in previous Akashic reviews (Chicago Noir, D.C. Noir, etc.), the pattern of these anthologies (essentially crime stories - any intention to hew to a definition of noir as entailing specifically dark or morally questionable/conflicted worldviews kind of falls by the way...more
As I've said before in previous Akashic reviews (Chicago Noir, D.C. Noir, etc.), the pattern of these anthologies (essentially crime stories - any intention to hew to a definition of noir as entailing specifically dark or morally questionable/conflicted worldviews kind of falls by the way...more
I wanted to love this, but ultimately it is difficult to Noir well in a short story. And if you're going to attempt it in an anthology-type collection, I would have required the stories to be significantly longer. Instead of a few well thought out, thematically linked stories, we had a bajillion half baked attempts, only a couple of which came close. I love Ireland, and I tend to love Irish writers, but this just felt like a lot of empty posturing.
I enjoy all the noir books. This seemed to me to be even darker than most. I loved the tourism director story!
I do not appreciate being assailed by gratuitous profanity in the first chapter. No thank you. NEXT!
A good book to keep on the night stand since each story is short enough for a quick read before going to sleep. In general, Iseemed to enjoy the stories written by the Irish authors more than those written by non-Irish, but I kind of expected that. I was looking forward to seeing what Laura Lippman had to offer since I like her style usually. Her story was good, but not the best in the collection. My favorite was The Portrait of the Killer as a Young Man by Reed Farrel Coleman. The twist at the...more
Too complicated
A must for me since it features a number of stories from favorite writers of mine, and overall they're pretty solid. Especially notable to me is Sarah Weinman's entry, not so much for its quality (although it's good) but because her punchline reminds me so much of one of the anthology's other contributors, Laura Lippman (whose "The Honor Bar" is the standout here).
There were a couple of shorts that were not too bad...
TITLE/AUTHOR: DUBLIN NOIR edited by Ken Bruen
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Mystery 2006, 228 pgs
Short stories set in Dublin by various authors.
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Mystery 2006, 228 pgs
Short stories set in Dublin by various authors.
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Ken Bruen, born in Galway in 1951, is the author of The Guards (2001), the highly acclaimed first Jack Taylor novel. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. His novel Her Last Call to Louis Mac Niece (1997) is in production for Pilgrim Pictures, his "White Trilogy" has been bought by Channel 4, and The Guards is to be filmed in Ireland by De...more
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Little Mike realized that his friend was actually serious. 'Two of us? Father Hillary had God Almighty helping out, and look where it got him.'
'I know. But we're a team. For years, since primary. Batman and Robin.'
'Robin got killed,' said Mike.
Christy was shocked. 'He did not, did he? Jesus, I didn't hear about that.'
'Yeah. It was a big shock. The Joker kilt him.'
'That fuckin' Joker. I didn't see that coming.' ("Taking on PJ")”
