Book Reports

[NOIRTRASH]

THE WAY WE DIE NOW by Charles Willeford

Was Willeford's last book in this life. It was the end of the Hoke Moseley detective hard crime series. It almost rates 5 stars and is hard to put down.

Willeford's books always feature 3-4 plots. In this effort Moseley's live-in starts dating a paroled killer Moseley sent to prison 10 years ago, Moseley goes undercover to investigate a Haitian labor camp, Moseley investigates a cold case where an MD was murdered, and Moseley struggles with Miami PDs new anti-smoking policy.

The characters are always 'real' with 'real' flaws and issues. Moseley has dentures, a girl he spends the night with has a retarded child, a labor boss tries to fuck Moseley in the ass, the police department is a ball of red tape so bad its cops cant function inside the law. The whole place is an affirmative action, PC cluster fuck.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

THE WATCHMAN by Robert Crais

I give it almost 5 stars. Hard to put down, Read it in 2 days.

The story Top Dog mercenary killer Joe Pike owes a man a favor, and what the man wants is for Pike to babysit a bazillionaires daughter. Someone keeps trying to kill her, and nowhere is safe to hide. So Pike kidnaps the woman and the whole world goes nuts.

The daughter/woman is a Paris Hilton piece of work with no brains no morals no manners. But she does have a nasty mouth.

Most of the book is bullshit that keeps Pike, the police, and Feds confused. No one and nothing is what it seems. So Pike kills everyone and lets God sort it out. That's the plot, but it unfolds in an interesting way. But dead bodies are everywhere!

I liked the daughter/woman. She's totally fucking worthless for anything. Decoration. The way God meant women to be. She fucks up everything she does. She walks into walls but looks good doing it. The way God meant women to be.

 

[NotWise]

The way God meant women to be.

Talking with God now, are you?

 

[jomar]

You might like Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series. He's a hard boiled LA detective on a mission. A flawed champion of the dead.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Talking with God now, are you?

We talk all the time. He told he doesn't waste his time with you.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

You might like Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series. He's a hard boiled LA detective on a mission. A flawed champion of the dead.

I ordered his first book for a trial read.

 

[jomar]

I'm working my way through them like I did Sandford's Davenport books. Interesting doing it this way to see the character arc across the books.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I'm working my way through them like I did Sandford's Davenport books. Interesting doing it this way to see the character arc across the books.

I went and got ECHO PARK at the library.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

THE FIRST RULE by Robert Crais.

I have no idea how the book ends tho I read it in the past. I recognize scenes as I read, but cant recall where it goes or how it ends. But its excellent so far.

Its the story of a home invasion where everyone of a nice family is murdered by a group of savage black thugs. Then someone murders all the thugs, and don't kill them with any compassion or sensitivity. Its totally raw and extreme. Its what I call a WTF story. The cops are clueless and barking up the wrong skirts.

 

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ECHO PARK by Michael Connelly

I read 60 pages of it and closed the covers forever.

There's a good story in it, somewhere, but the writing is awful. I grew weary, and my mind wandered constantly.

The writer never met a passive verb or adverb he could resist. He makes the simplest activity into OCD. And he makes psychotic observations... like ...I FELT UNPREPARED. That's no feeling, its a judgment about merit.

Its a tale about a serial killer caught with a car fulla dead girl parts. He wants to make a deal with the prosecutor to escape execution. There are many more dead girls the cops didn't find.

But I cant handle awful composition.