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  <title><![CDATA[The Hunter]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1962</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Stark]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, for me, is what defines hard edged gritty fiction.  <br/><br/>First in the now epic 'Parker' series started by Donald E. Westlake under the name Richard Stark in the early 60's.  While the single minded juggernaut that is Parker may not be the first protagonist with absolutely zero rede...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35246772">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 10 10:56:59 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The office women looked at him and shivered. They knew he was a bastard, they knew his big hands were born to slap with, they knew his face would never break into a smile when he looked at a woman. They knew what he was, they thanked God for their husbands, and still they shivered. Because the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37336055">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[From ISawLightningFall.com<br/><br/>Cognitive dissonance. College-level psychology may teach the technical details of the term, but experience usually schools us all in a far more primal understanding of it early on. We learn quickly that cognitive dissonance is best friends with perplexity, confu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66282349">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[They left him for dead, gutshot in a burning building. But they didn't make sure he was really gone and that was their fatal mistake. Because when the criminal is Parker, hell hath no fury. Tracking the double-crossers to new York City, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, Parker wants the man who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54056396">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great start to a fine crime series.  I hesitated over reading this one, since I've seen both the Lee Marvin and Mel Gibson versions. Not to worry, the book is considerably different (though Gibson's version seemed closer to the original story). Stark's (Westlake) Parker is one brutal character, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48509389">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stark's first Parker novel, from clear the hell back in 1962. Quite an introduction to hardcase noir for anyone who has never experienced it. This has been adapted for film twice, once for the trippy 1967 &quot;Point Blank&quot; with Lee Marvin and once for the 1999 &quot;Payback&quot; with Mel Gibs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39784007">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15415989">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first, and scrappiest of the Parker novels.  He's not quite as perfect, as under control as he becomes, and there is a raggedness that I really like at work here.  Also, a wonderful limning of 60s NYC.]]></body>
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    <review id="61192609">
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  <read_at>Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Donald Westlake, under the name Richard Stark, has written some of my absolute favorite crime novels I've ever read. The kind of crime novels where the main character is a criminal and you want them to get away with it. The characters are serious, competent professionals and the main character, Park...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61192609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54321219">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alex]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the original hard boiled tough guy. Stark (Westlake writing as Stark) boils the essence of a smart no-nonsense tough guy down from the work of the greats that wrote detective and crime fiction before him, and created Parker. Forget the movies you may have seen - be they timeless classics or ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54321219">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the real deal.  As tough as &quot;tough-guy&quot; novels get, and well-deserving of its cult-classic status.<br/><br/>Richard Stark was one pseudonym of Donald Westlake, but this is nothing like Westlake's usual comedic mysteries.  The &quot;hero,&quot; Parker, spends the novel getting bac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45604685">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60544542">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A shockingly violent classic noir.  There's not much to the plot-- Parker, the amoral protagonist, has been wronged on a thieving job, and sets out to get an unbelievably bloody revenge.  But Stark (or Donald Westlake, when not writing under the pseudonym) is a wonderful crime writer.  His character...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60544542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48202558">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 04 07:42:28 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Stark's &quot;Parker&quot; is a bad guy doing bad things. Parker, as he is only known throughout the novel, is a professional thief. He lives a good life spending most of his time between jobs in resorts and hotels with his sexy wife Lynn. Life is good until Val Resnick offers him a job that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48202558">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Parker story. He's a tough bastard and does not abide by conventional morality and thus, like a character in a Tarantino film, always has the element of What the f--- on his side. That is, he punches people before they can react. Trouble with reading it today is that the idea has been done...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72170869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40215800">
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Stark is one of Donald Westlake many pseudonyms.  &quot;The Hunter&quot;, also released with the movie's title &quot;Point Blank&quot; is the first of a long running crime series totally 28 books.  The anti-hero Parker is the most hard-boiled crook in fiction.  Although noted for comic caper...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40215800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43778762">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great crime novel. This was written over forty years ago, but the power of this character, Parker, resonates today. Mel Gibson made a movie of this book called Payback, which really pales in comparison to the stark, violent nature of this novel. Parker is one character you can't sympathize wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43778762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35592731">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Published in the early 1960's, this is a noir novel in the pure pulp fiction tradition. While the narrative is interesting, man seeks revenge from those who did him wrong, the treatment is done in a very wild, violent and creepy way. The main character is way out there as the kind of anti-hero that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35592731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46415385">
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    <name><![CDATA[Marshall]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Stark was one of the pen names of the late Donald Westlake.  He wrote at least 100 books and he was a true master of the craft.  The Parker books I read were written in 1962, and they not only stand up to the test of time, they stand head and shoulders above so much of what has been written ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46415385">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 01 15:03:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like crime fiction then you need to read this.  If you've read it then you know that Stark/Westlake is the real deal and you'll want to read all the Parker novels.  I need to re-read my Jim Thompson books and see how they compare stylistically (after I've read more &quot;Parker&quot;!)]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[JBEG]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 15 13:07:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 15 13:10:11 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like my bad boy crime fiction, and I appreciate the influence of the Parker novels, but there is just nothing to like about this guy-- he is all bad and without a single interesting characteristic I can think of (except maybe for his really big hands). I'll go back to my Jim Thompson]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 05 10:34:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 05 10:36:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was great fun to read. Was turned on to this by Darwyn Cooke's graphic version that just came out, and have been on a binge of watching the movies and reading anything related. Great two-fisted crime with beautiful women, schemes, and a real bastard for a protagonist. ]]></body>
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