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If you like hard-boiled detective stuff, this is for you. Leonard even throws in a faded 1950s movie star so you get a bit of film noir along the way.
Halfway through, there’s a twist which isn’t entirely unforeseeable, and it all reads pretty well. While it is a novel that very accurately captures its era, this in many respects is a shame.
Misogyny is rampant with all the women being represented as sexual objects in one way or another and all the men represented as macho in one way or … well pret ...more
Halfway through, there’s a twist which isn’t entirely unforeseeable, and it all reads pretty well. While it is a novel that very accurately captures its era, this in many respects is a shame.
Misogyny is rampant with all the women being represented as sexual objects in one way or another and all the men represented as macho in one way or … well pret ...more
Jan 20, 2008
Virginia
marked it as 1001-books-to-go
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