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    <body><![CDATA[Seeing the re-released edition with the supercool Wire-a-like cover reminded me of how searing this book is. In this age of chatty blog writing it's refreshing to read reportage of this quality. Like Mark Baker's &quot;Cops&quot; but with less shock and more awe. The characters and dialogue ring wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47910965">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three cheers...I finished David Simon's HOMICIDE last night. Elated I did, too. It's a honker (600+ pages). The storyline tracks a Homicide squad in the Baltimore PD over a year (234 murders in '88). Two main things held my interest. First, I liked the parts on the individual homicide detectives. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36616733">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are a fan of the TV show the Wire, you should read this book.  David Simon started making the transition from Baltimore Sun beat reporter to creator of the greatest TV show ever made (IMO) by taking a year off and writing this book about a year in the life of the Baltimore city homicide depar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66327750">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an astonishingly thorough, evocative, and accurate piece of journalism. The book intimately relates, at root, what the real lives of homicide detectives are like -- it totally changed the way I look at crime and the systems we create to control it. Enough platitudes for you? It's a good book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18122652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved The Wire as much as the next guy, but though this book is awesome, it's a bit of a let down after that.<br/><br/>As a piece of journalism, it's incredible. There aren't many reporters who could get this kind of access to a bunch of miserable homicide cops (Simon seems to have spent every w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40182217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a compelling book which provides a fascinating insight into the world of the homicide detective in the city of Baltimore.  The cases, the departmental politics and the dark, deadpan humour of the detectives are all shown unsparingly. Simon makes the detectives come alive on the page and pain...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41477474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book, journalist David Simon spends a year with the Baltimore Homicide unit and writes from the inside out about a city and it's impulsive, calculated and downright deranged inhabitants. Whether it's drug dealers, domestic violence or dope fiends on the make this book has it all. A Year on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73693381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[David Simon is far and away the best journalistic long-form writer I've ever read. He brought that room and those streets to life in a way I didn't think possible. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Homicide: A Year On the Killing Streets</em> is a dense book, but then the topic -- a full year spent with the Baltimore Police Homicide Department -- is worthy of an in-depth treatment. Little is glamorized here and there are times when I was surprised that the Baltimore PD agreed to let <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1315.Louisa_May_Alcott" title="Louisa May Alcott">David Simon</a> res...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42872756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent, in depth look at the detectives of Baltimore's homicide department. <br/><br/>This book also spawned an excellent TV show, &quot;Homicide: Life on the Street&quot;. Fans of the show will recognize a lot of the cases and characters that were used in the show. <br/><br/>However, this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71640037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was inspired to finally read this by finishing Season 5 of The Wire, which Simon co-created.  Dated now, but still a completely enthralling experience.  If you haven't read this and have any interest in The Wire, police investigations, Baltimore, urban issues or the late 80s drug culture, or any c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80180223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book,  A close up look at what it means to work in an dysfunctional state organisation which long ago lost any grand narrative with regard to the good it is supposed to be doing.  When that happens everything falls back on the personal morality of the people manning its day today operation, tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67590962">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simon does a really great job in this exhaustive, detail-oriented portrait of a working but inherently dysfunctional homicide unit in what appears to be one of the busiest little cities for such a line of work, the character-in-its-own-right city of Baltimore, MD. <br/><br/>I came to Simon's book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47220924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now, this was a cool read.  'Homicide' was David Simon's first book, at the end of his journalism career and the beginning of so much more.  And just like every other Simon fan who has read this book recently, I was drawn from 'The Wire' first.<br/><br/>Simon spends a year on call as a 'police int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43476878">more...</a>]]></body>
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