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1 review
Robert B. Parker

New York: Delacorte Press, 1994, 1994

An American Classic
With the vigor of a Spenser novel, this is one of Parker's best, a literary work, and a long read. It is a penetrating look at the dark side of the american urban scene. While a bit slow at first, your patience is well worthwhile. This book covers three generations, and I think it is comparable to Evelyn Waugh's BRIDESHEAD REVISITED. Thank you Robert Parker.

The Easiest Thing in the World: The Unpublished Fiction of George V. Higgins

1 review
George V. Higgins

Carroll & Graf, 2005

Vintage George Higgins Writing in Small Bites
If you have been a fan of George Higgins's writing, you probably know that he had an unerring ability to tell a story, capture the state of mind of the teller, and provide an unexpected reward at the end of the story by tying seemingly disconnected story skeins together. In The Easiest Thing in the World, those qualities are present in all of their glory. None of the material has been ...

Robert B. Parker 2-Pack: Chance & Double Deuce

1 review
Robert B. Parker

Audio Literature, 1999

The Worm Turns
In Chance, you will meet the least trustworthy group of double-dealers you can ever imagine. They won't tell Spenser what's really going on, and switch allegiances at the drop of a hat. Just when you think you know what will happen next, the plot switches off into an unexpected direction. Anthony Meeker, the biggest rat of them all, will keep you fascinated by raising the age-old question of ...

Spenser's Boston

1 review
Robert B. Parker

Otto Penzler Books, 1994

It was great
It was an excellent display of photographs, but the price was far from reasonable (it cost $120 used). I recommend it for any die-hard Spenser fans, but otherwise, don't bother.

Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion

2 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Oxford Univ Pr (Txt), 1983

Miasma -- Not for the Faint of Heart
"Miasma" (or me-ahz-MAH' as the ancients would say it, we think) is a subject and a book that will be of most interest to scholars of ancient Greek culture, religion and language, as well as to students of comparative languages and literatures. It is a dense but well-written text by Parker, an important and recognized scholar. Organized conceptually, the book begins with an introduction to ...

Boxed-Robert B. Parker-3 Vol.

1 review
Robert B. Parker

Dell Publishing Company, 1987

Three early novels from the glory years of Spenser for Hire
This collection brings together the fifth, sixth, and seventh Spenser for Hire novels by Robert B. Parker, representing the early glory days when our hero was trying to figure out how to make things work with Susan Silverman and Hawk was always around to help do the good deeds. The key thing is that Parker refuses to fit into a restrictive formula at this point and that his books are perfectly ...

Lord John Film Festival

1 review
Ray Bradbury, Harry Crews, Robert Bloch, Bertrand Tavernier, Ken Turan, Norman Corwin, Gerald R. Ford, Robert B. Parker John Updike

Lord John Press, 2007

Lord John Triumph
This book is nothing short of amazing. It is clearly an example of what this publisher has become known for - quality, originality and collectibility. This collection of essays, all with authentic signatures of the authors, coupled with dozens of genuine autographs of Hollywood legends, is a work of art. A film fan's dream.

Brothers: A Hebrew Legend

1 review
Florence B. Freedman

Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1985

Brotherly Love
In this charming book for children, two brothers grow up learning to care for one another. This relationship carries over into adulthood, when, faced with a severe famine, they still want to share their bounty with the other. It is a wonderful story for children, especially for brothers.

The Godwulf Manuscript

1 review
Robert B. Parker

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973

A list of the Spenser novels
Spenser novels The Godwulf Manuscript (1973) God Save the Child (1974) Mortal Stakes (1975) Promised Land (1976) (Edgar Award, 1977, Best Novel) The Judas Goat (1978) Looking for Rachel Wallace (1980) Early Autumn (1981) A Savage Place (1981) Ceremony (1982) The Widening Gyre (1983) Valediction (1984) A Catskill Eagle (1985) Taming a Sea Horse (1986) Pale Kings and ...

The Spenser Collection: Volume I: Hugger Mugger and Potshot (Spenser Collection: Vol 1)

1 review
Robert B. Parker

Random House Audio, 2006

Great Book
Great story and interesting character. This is a good series to get wrapped up in.

Mortal Stakes

14 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Books on Tape, Inc., 1989

Batter's Up! Pitcher Pauses. Crack that Ball! Spenser's Heaven Visits Hell.
Loved the reality/fiction twist of Spenser going undercover as a writer to get into baseball back rooms and detect from inside the game. The poem introducing this heavenly concept of work overlapping play was a perfect preface. Of course the meaning in those lines from Robert Frost descend into deadly seriousness, beyond a person's job taking him into his most passionate pastime. It appears ...

The Judas Goat

16 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Houghton Mifflin (T), 1978

Less rhetoric, more action makes for much more enjoyable read
Although I'm one who doesn't mind a more cerebral book, typically, I found the first few books in the Spenser series to be a bit overfull of rhetoric and therefore lacking in the essential action necessary in a PI novel. Not "The Judas Goat." Here the action takes us across the pond to London, Holland and Amsterdam, then back to Montreal where Spenser - with the help of Hawk (I was so happy to ...

Early Autumn

32 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Delacorte Pr, 1980

A Great Spenser Novel
EARLY AUTUMN is the seventh Spenser novel, and it's definitely one of the best ones. In this story, Spenser first meets 15-year old Paul Giacomin, who will become something of a surrogate son to him. This novel is mainly about their relationship with each other, and how Spenser teaches him how to grow up and deal with life in a self-respecting way. I love this novel because Spenser teaches ...

A Triple Shot of Spenser (Spenser Mysteries)

3 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Berkley Trade, 2005

A Triple-shot of Great books!
In Pastime, Paul Giacomin comes to Spenser asking for help in tracking down his mother, who has gone missing. Never the best of mothers - having often abandoned Paul to his own devices when he was younger, causing Paul to develop as a very neurotic youngster before Spenser took him under his wing in Early Autumn (as Paul says at one point "she used to literally hide under the bed . . . but I ...

Pastime

20 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Dove Audio, 1991

Vintage Vignettes on Varieties of Rain? Dining on Times Past? Casting Pearls Before Swine? Oh Yeah. Tim Taylor approved!
The beginning chapters of PASTIME used a dramatically different stye from previous books I've read in the Spenser series. As other reviewers have helpfully described, this one's personal, and as such, to me it felt warm and "homey" (though, after the first chapters, the Spenser/Hawk/mob grit got going with full guts and grandeur... then paused periodically for more cozy "cookie" breaks). ...

The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (Best American Mystery Stories)

8 reviews

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997

A Strong Collection
"The Best American Mystery Stories 1999" is a strong collection of modern crime related short stories that run the gamut from Private Eye tales to ameture sleuth stories to whodunnits? They are as varied as the authors themselves. Some giants of the genre check in here, including Lawrence Block with "Keller's Last Refuge," Loren Estleman with an Amos Walker short "Redneck," and John Updike with ...

Paper Doll

22 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Putnam Adult, 1993

Color Crayons & Paper Dolls. Tigers Beware.
Push a Pin into the perfection balloon. What is marriage ... what are styles of domesticity ... to a wealthy WASP, to a liberated couple like Spenser and Susan, to a good-guy gay cop, to a State Senator, to an aging wealthy southerner. The concluding scene in DOUBLE DEUCE, # 19 in the Spenser series, catered a surprising twist to Susan and Spenser's attempts at traditional homemaking. That ...

Small Vices

44 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Putnam Adult, 1997

One of the best books in the Spenser series.
This is my second reading of 'Small Vices'. I'd read it before, years ago, and all I remembered was that this is the one in which Spenser gets himself shot and very nearly killed. (The beauty, I guess, of having so many Spenser novels is that it is hard to keep them all straight so I can go back and re-read them like they're new every few years). If you are familiar with Spenser, most of your ...

Ceremony

10 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Penguin Books, 1992

Fire Crackers & Burning Jewels
Some of Spenser's hottest wisecracks have been fueled lean and mean by surged anger raring to box ear lobes and boogie the brawn... which he did in one of the scenes in CEREMONY, ruining a dark party scene with a long run of blood. This # 8 in series pinged out of the bag with humor popping. Harry Kyle, "successful" salesman, was pushing to write off his daughter. He was painted brightly ...

Weeds of the West

14 reviews
Larry C. Burrill, Steven A. Dewey, ...

Diane Pub Co, 1996

Overpriced by the phony publisher
This is a wonderful book. The only problem is it is badly overpriced by "DIANE" who states she is the publisher. The real publisher is the University of Wyoming and this 9th edition priced at $45.00. The real publisher didn't realize they had to get a new ISBN number for the new edition. So the 9th edition bears the old ISBN number 0-941570-134. Perhaps Amazon could assign a number with the ...

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