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This novel is of the kind that your eyes hit the page and before you know, it, you sit up blinking, having devoured the book in one setting. The style is clean and flows well enough to do that. I also admit I have a weakness for books set in my home town of New York City, so that was another plus for me.
Yet I didn't leave the novel wanting to read more of Block or his protagonist/narrator Matthew Scudder for several reasons. Some of those reasons are idiosyncratic, I know. I hold it against Scu ...more
Yet I didn't leave the novel wanting to read more of Block or his protagonist/narrator Matthew Scudder for several reasons. Some of those reasons are idiosyncratic, I know. I hold it against Scu ...more
My first Lawrence Block, which just also happened to be my first Matthew Scudder. Very interesting character, very well plotted. It just seems so dated.
Feb 02, 2011
Nicole
marked it as to-read
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Zoe
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Katie
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