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    <body><![CDATA[Walter Mosley manages to be an extraordinarily prolific writer but at the same time one of great quality, who has shown equal facility in tough but politically and socially literate crime writing and also in witty and wise post-modern science-fiction.<br/><br/>Black Betty is a fine demonstration o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80584057">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Easy Rawlins. He is honorable and courageous, able to show his vulnerability, loving and loyal, especially with his wonderful kids and his friends (not all so wonderful). That said, I think I have to stop reading the series for awhile. The world in which Easy lives is so vicious and violent t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76340119">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 22 05:59:53 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[With Black Betty, Mosley delivers what you'd expect from an Easy Rawlins mystery if you came to it having already read a few others such as I had.  The crime to be solved is made to seem convoluted but ultimately turns out to be relatively simple.  But as with each book in this series it isn't reall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45814370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find Mosley's books very entertaining and easy to read. I'm still not sure what to think of his treatment of gender, but I should think he's a lot better on women than other writers of noowah, and he's a LOT better on race.<br/><br/>I recognised the structure of this story -- millions of things ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65860897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[another of the Easy Rawlins stories. Interesting characters, thoughtfully used to illustrate deeper social conditions and relationships, especially racial. But without really beating you over the head with it. You root for some, you hope some get the come-uppance they deserve. Only on a rare occasio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57848552">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a man who does detective type work for people and in this story Easy is looking for an old acquaintance of his. It's written in the present tense but occurs in the 50s and is based in L.A. I would probably read another of his books, I liked the way he wrote.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[WALTER MOSLEY IS BY FAR THE BEST AFRICAN-AMERICAN DETECTIVE WRITER. EASY RAWLINS IS HIS BEST CHARACTER AND HIS BEST SERIES, BUT BLACK BETTY TAKES A CLOSE 2ND FOR HIS CHARACTERS.  THIS IS HIS BEST BOOK SO FAR.<br/><br/><br/>THERE SHOULD BE AN AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOKSHELF!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the way Walter Mosley depicts the time of the 50s and 60s. He described places I visit now in LA during this time. And you find yourself wondering… Great book. Read the complete serious when you can, you’ll embrace the characters.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say? I am a Walter Mosely FAN!!! I have read just about EVERYthing he published. I especially like the Easy Rawlins stories. i wish they would do more movies of his work too.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the Easy Rawlins series. Read this immediately after the Socrates books - and I think I like Mosley's ex-con short stories more! But I'm a fan of just about anything he's written.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like the idea of this series, but the books are so unrelentingly grim and depressing that I just gave up. <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Walter Mosley mysteries and this is another good one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[probably the best book in the Rawlings series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easy reading; won of my favorite in the series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Black Betty by Walter Mosley (1994)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good book, I like the L.A. setting and the time period (1961) - it's very film noir/Chinatown/<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep" title="The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a>, except from the point of view of a black detective.  I loved the movie &quot;Devil in a Blue Dress&quot; but had never read any of Walter Mosley's books.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38525288">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You expect it to be all good because you loosely base you pre-opinion on a song with a similar title and rocking god drinking game and then it turns out to suck.  Think James Patterson if patterson was a 2nd grader]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Disappointing.  Too many characters floating around doing not much, and Easy kept on talking about how a real man is supposed to act.  Didn't read Gator Green.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easy Rawlins, has moved from Watts to West L.A. with his two adopted children.  Hired to locate a sultry female acquaintance from his early days in Houston.<br/>]]></body>
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