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Indlæser... Sydney Noiraf John Dale (Redaktør)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This is one of my favorites out of the Akashic Noir series. It's divided into 3 sections: Family Matters, Sex And The City and Criminal Justice. I enjoyed all of the stories, but Sex And The City is my favorite section. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I want to fully admit that my three star rating is probably greatly my fault--this being the third "Noir" collection I've read, I should clearly stop receiving them for review because they're just not up my alley. I rated each story individually as I read them, and the average was a little under a 3. The collection is divided up into three sections, generally about Family, Sex, and Criminal Justice. Family, for me, was the best of the three. A few 4's in there: "Good Boy, Bad Girl;" "In The Dunes;" and "In the Court of The Lion King."I'm not puritanical but I'm not a huge fan of graphic sex in my literature, and I see plenty of crime in my job so it doesn't hit me as dark or jarring as it's probably meant to. The family section was primarily what appealed to me--I'll stop reading these Noir books now. Again, no knock to the genre, just a personal preference. I'm going to be honest, parts of this made me chuckle. But even for a sci-fi comedy, some of the dialogue was pretty unbelievable (think Hitchhiker's Guide but less clever), and I really didn't enjoy the world building that let so many fantastical technologies all be developed at the same time to be incorporated in one cyber-partner for our protagonist. I am a big sci-fi fan, but the introduction of technology into this world was implausible and poorly done. The story was fun, but not enough to draw me in past the dialogue and other issues. Unrelated: I LOVE the cover, so kudos there. **I received a free Advance Reader Copy of this book in exchange for this unbiased review (and I'm sorry it took me so long to provide that review--since having kids my brain power allocated to reading has been severely handicapped).** This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. The stories in this volume of the endless series are consistently well-written and do a great job of invoking the Sydney-area locations. But they are almost unremittingly grim, often nihilistic, and not that entertaining. After reading it, it is the setting that stick in my mind, not the characters or plots. Belongs to Series
Nothing lasts in Sydney, especially good fortune: lives are upturned, shops are sold, roads dug up, trees and houses knocked down, premiers discarded, and entire communities relocated in the name of that economic mantra--growth and progress. Just when you think the traffic can't get any worse and the screech of the 747s descending over your roof can't get any louder, along comes a wild electrical storm that batters the buildings and shakes the power lines and washes the garbage off the streets and you stand, sheltered under your broken brolly in the center of Sydney, admiring this big beautiful city. What never changes, though, is the hustle on the street. My father was a detective in the vice squad shortly after the Second World War, and he told stories of busting SP bookies in Paddington and Surry Hills, collaring cockatoos stationed in the laneways of South Sydney, and arresting sly-groggers. Policing back then was hands-on for the poor and hands-off for the rich. Crime and Sydney have always been inseparable: a deep vein of corruption runs beneath the surface of even its most respectable suburbs. No library descriptions found. |
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