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Indlæser... The Big Kill (1951)af Mickey Spillane
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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. My fifth Mike Hammer book. I liked Spillane's style from the beginning, with its crisp dialogue and total lack of political correctness. And, even though I enjoyed this one, it was over-the-top ridiculous for the most part. Mike takes more of a licking, and of course, keeps on ticking. Anyone else would have spent a few days in the hospital or been in a coma. Talk about concussion protocol! Ol' Mike's brain ain't gonna survive many more books like this one. Too many dames falling for him too. And, that crazy ending! That was just stupid. ( ) A thrilling final forty pages (out of of 168), but otherwise I thought it a little plodding for a novel with such unabashedly flat characters. I did enjoy that [spoiler alert] the plot hinged on a couple reels of microfilm. Given the publication date (1951), I was curious to know whether the villains used nitrate- or acetate-based film stock. The difference actually could have made for an interesting plot wrinkle. Speaking of wrinkles, the prize for most over-worked figurative language goes to "she wrinkled her nose"--I can't even imagine what that's supposed to look like, unless it's the expression people sometimes make when they smell something noxious. The final paragraph, with its deus ex machina (or, if I may, infans ex machina), stretched credulity just way too far, but some might find it a cute and ironic ending to a hard-boiled mystery. I enjoyed learning that Spillane was a dog lover and attended Kansas State College. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
The rain clawed at the windows of the bar. Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone. But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse. By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wise guys to find out how a reformed ex-con got desperate enough to die like that. What Hammer doesn't know is how a beautiful woman will figure in--and how many bullets justice will take. No library descriptions found. |
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