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Dennis Lehane took a big leap in his work with this first novel following his stunner of a masterpiece, Mystic River, tackling a period piece for the first time, with a story that somehow both narrowed and widened his scope. It's about two U.S. Marshalls stuck on a job at an island-based criminal asylum, tracking down an escaped convict during a dangerous hurricane.
I haven't read this in a while but I remember it being such a great example of a popular best-seller that fully deserved the attent ...more
I haven't read this in a while but I remember it being such a great example of a popular best-seller that fully deserved the attent ...more
I barreled through it in three days hardly able to set it down, and usually only doing so for obligations (that pesky teaching job of mine), then I got to the end and I was confused, let down and just damn well didn't know what to think. So I thought about and and set about reading others reactions with google as my ally.
Now that I've thought about it...it's a dark, atmospheric, oppressive, Gothic, and moody mystery thriller that is expertly written with a pugilistic prose, savvy dialog, brill ...more
Now that I've thought about it...it's a dark, atmospheric, oppressive, Gothic, and moody mystery thriller that is expertly written with a pugilistic prose, savvy dialog, brill ...more
Dennis Lehane must write excellent synopsis for scripts. The plot on paper would sound fresh and novel, and very smart. When he tries expanding those into books however, the effort sucks. This is my 4th Lehane book, and I have had this feeling after each one, of just how pedestrian the writing is, how the dialogue is cringingly lame, how it all feels like one scene after the other from a supposedly cool screenplay, left for the directors to interpret their vision through it.
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A page-turner to be sure, but not a patch on Mystic River or Lehane's other Boston-set mysteries. The upcoming Scorsese film with Leonardo DiCaprio as U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels should be a good ride, but in the book there's too much of a sense of waiting for that big surprise.
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Mar 20, 2009
Owen
marked it as to-read
Apr 06, 2012
Nikki
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Sep 13, 2013
Greg Bernhard
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