Great Novel, incredible dialog

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	• Lush Life: A Novel Richard Price Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 151 reviews view larger image
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Gritty

Get ready to take a tour of the underbelly of the City in this work. Gritty, shocking, at times touching, this book will keep you hooked until the last page.

Good Book, worth a read

Its hard to review this book because its just not really the type of book I would normally read. Its an Amazon "Vine" review after all. But what first intrigued me about this book was my friend kept raving about her favourite show, "The Wire". I've never seen it but she loved it and said it was brilliant.

It was a good book. I liked the gritty mystery of it. I think the best part was the cool New York setting. Although, some parts of it just seemed generic `cop show' material. Some parts of the book seems to drag a bit, like he tried to make it longer than the story required.

One thing that kind of turned me off about it was the back and forth talking. Reading the back, one of the reviews states Price is "the greatest writer of dialogue". It seemed 90% of the book was he said, she said, he said. It got kind of repetitive, but its probably just one of those things that you either like about a book or don't, and I didn't.

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Just a Great Read

Lush Life is a great read, really enjoyable, compelling reading. I'm surprised to see it referred to as a police procedural--that genre is pretty limited. Calling Lush Life a police procedural is tantamount to calling Pride and Prejudice chick lit. While Lush Life has some elements in a police procedural--there is a dead body and police are involved--Lush Life goes beyond the typical police procedural example. Why is this one so terrific? Outstanding dialogue, complex, flawed characters with complicated motivations, entertaining forays into personal lives, humor and wit. Enjoy!

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Great Novel, incredible dialog

Calling this a cop book or a mystery misses the point. This is a book about NY, about dialog, about the sounds of the street. I didn't realize it was a mystery until I was 1/3 through it. He writes with a fantastic ear for dialog human interaction, and a true command of the novel. Great great book. Take it to the beach and forget everything else you brought with you.

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