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Careless In Red by: Elizabeth George List Price: CDN$ 29.95 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 18.87 You Save: CDN$11.08 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780061160875 ISBN: 0061160873 Label: Harper Manufacturer: Harper Number Of Pages: 640 Publication Date: May 06, 2008 Publisher: Harper Release Date: May 06, 2008 Studio: Harper Sales Rank: 3769 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Painful in RedIf you are a fan of Elizabeth George, as I am, you will find this book excruciatingly painful. Unlike her previous books, this one is pretentious (giving characters names such as Daidre, Santo, Selevan, and Dellen does not make a novel literary!)and whenever the action veers away from police routine to personal relationships, it is downright precious - a cross between the worst of Mary Wesley and some third-rate whodunnit. The characterization at these moments is nowhere near George's usual highly plausible and enjoyable style. For example, when an 18-year old is found dead after a climbing fall, the female police officer investigating his death, upon discovering that the dead boy has a black eye from being punched, immediately asks the pathologist ... Read More: Rating:  - I wish it was betterI must admit getting hooked up on the Thomas Lynley/Barbara Havers stories through television. Recently, I bought several of the book versions of the works of Elizabeth George to see, how much more enjoyable details are there in print. In general, the books are way better. This one seems to be the exception. There is so much unrelated detail, that it becomes painfull to read through it, especially, because the main plot is also disappointing. I did not give up on Elizabeth George, the next one must be better again. Rating:  - A KEENLY UNDERSTOOD NARRATIONOne would be hard pressed to find a more perfect reader for the latest Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley mystery than London born Charles Keating. After all, who else could neatly toss off such lines as "A bit daft, that, but it's summick to do, innit." with easy authenticity? An experienced actor who appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-Upon-Avon, he soon became known to American audiences with his work on TV's Another World and numerous Broadway performances. He brings both decisiveness and keen understanding to his narration. As many will remember Lynley lost his wife in a previous novel, "No One To Witness" when she was fatally shot outside their London home. Numb with grief Lynley ... Read More: Rating:  - Flawed Look at Husbands without Wives and Children without MothersCareless in Red will surprise most fans of the Thomas Lynley/Barbara Havers novels. Elizabeth George doesn't return to her roots, but attempts a more literary novel that primarily explores how fragile husbands and children are without wives and mothers to love and nurture them. Those who just want a good mystery will wonder why all the extra characters and plots are in place until they realize that the mystery is secondary to telling stories that build the major theme. As the book opens, Lynley is a wreck following the murder of his wife and unborn child. He's been trekking along the coast without thought to comfort and safety, becoming little more than a homeless man. That mind-numbed state is disturbed when he spots a dead body and is pulled ... Read More: |
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