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Sep 30, 2022
Mohammed Abdikhader Firdhiye
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it was amazing
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This felt like reading two different novels at once, Easy was a classic hero in hardboiled PI in the mold of Nathan Heller or a Marlowe, Lew Archer type but the huge difference is the experience of being a black man in 1940s LA. The quality of the writing reminded me of those great PI novels but Easy despite being cable of protecting himself as a WWII soldier was afraid of every white man, white boy, white woman. Talking to one could get you killed for no reason. The cops can beat to you to deat
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The power and precision of the writing is what first won me over - there's a bit when a white man, DeWitt Allbright, walks in to a black bar; he walks in, stands just inside the door, Mosley writes "...he had all the time in the world" and with these words you can sense, understand the moment and almost experience it yourself.
As a series of books, the Easy Rawlins novels are a complex of Californian tragedies and have no equal, to my mind, in charting the descent of ane man into a dark place in ...more
As a series of books, the Easy Rawlins novels are a complex of Californian tragedies and have no equal, to my mind, in charting the descent of ane man into a dark place in ...more
I loved the setting and I think Mosley described it perfectly. It was almost as if you smell those nightclubs. But some of the plot dragged a bit to me and was all over the place. It's a good book and I definitely liked it but I didn't love it.
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Jun 05, 2020
Amy Bruestle
marked it as to-read
