Any Dennis Lehane fans?
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Finished Gone Baby Gone, and I preferred the movie. Granted, I haven't seen the movie in quite a while, but when I did see it, I loved it. The book seemed to have too many twists and turns for my liking.
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A Drink Before the War (1994)
Darkness, Take My Hand (1996)
Sacred (1997)
Gone, Baby, Gone (1998)
Prayers for Rain (1999)
Darkness, Take My Hand (1996)
Sacred (1997)
Gone, Baby, Gone (1998)
Prayers for Rain (1999)
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From today's Boston Herald:
Boston mystery man Dennis Lehane is going back to the future. His next book is a sequel to his 1999 best-seller “Gone, Baby, Gone,” and is set 11 years after detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro’s toughest case.
Boston mystery man Dennis Lehane is going back to the future. His next book is a sequel to his 1999 best-seller “Gone, Baby, Gone,” and is set 11 years after detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro’s toughest case.
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Nice. Glad to see the series will continue (I am assuming Patrick and Angie are in it). I've got to get around reading the first and third of the series.
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Latest Dennis Lehane interview with Craig Ferguson a couple of nights ago. WARNING: CLIP CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM THE WIRE:
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Given the lack of replies to your question so far, maybe it's okay that I chime in with an unofficial reply. As of this date, I've made two attempts at reading THE GIVEN DAY but neither try made it past a hundred pages...and I like baseball too. Again, this is sort of off-the-record since it isn't fair to comment based on less than a hundred pages, but the first thought that springs to mind in regard to the book is "bloated"...lots and lots of words to say not so much...maybe you can say that the filler helps to create "atmosphere" but my preference is for writing that accomplishes the same with a well-struck single sentence as opposed to full paragraphs. I do own the book, so I'll take another swing at it sometime down the road, at the same time I'll have to really work up the interest to do so.
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I'm about 300 pages in, and I'm enjoying it. Though I guess I can sympathize with Flixtime, as the book takes a long time to unfold. The "Luther" character is just now starting to fit into the main crux of the story (the Coughlins) but it took a while for that to happen. I'm hoping the remainder of the novel is a bit more focused now that its happened.
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Lehane's forthcoming Kenzie/Gennaro book - MOONLIGHT MILE - is releasing November 2nd, and is up for pre-order at Amazon. Following is a little about the new book (caution: don't read what follows if you haven't yet read GONE, BABY, GONE as it contains spoilers for that previous book):
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Fantastic news. I'd call Moonlight Mile more of a follow-up to GBG than a sequel (that was Prayers for Rain) but it sounds like a can't miss.
And going back to The Given Day: while a departure from Lehane's previous work, I thought it was brilliant. As I mentioned in a previous post, things take a while to unfold. But I found it enthralling as things came together.
And going back to The Given Day: while a departure from Lehane's previous work, I thought it was brilliant. As I mentioned in a previous post, things take a while to unfold. But I found it enthralling as things came together.
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I'm in the middle of Moonlight Mile right now and am really enjoying it. Things have definitely changed from the last book, but so far, it's a great read.
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Finished reading MOONLIGHT MILE the other day. I thought it just okay...quick and harmless enough I suppose...not unenjoyable. While I didn't have grand expectations for this work, I was still hoping for better. I thought Lehane really lost the character of Patrick Kenzie...the whole time I didn't sense I was following an investigation with Patrick Kenzie but instead with Dennis Lehane. In the first half especially, there is just too much bitching and bellyaching from Lehane on every topic under the sun, and too much about children, and too much about the economy. I mean a lot of this type of material felt like I was reading a Dennis Lehane personal/social commentary/grumpy-old-man blog and not a mystery novel. All of this delayed the plot from really kicking into gear until later on. At only 25 chapters/324 pages (lots of short dialogue lines and last page of chapters ending with just a few lines at the top of a page), I will say it was a super fast read. MOONLIGHT MILE felt like something in the ballpark of early Crais or Coben except maybe with less humor and more whining. Keep in mind that I haven't read any of the Kenzie/Gennaro books in a long time...I read the last - PRAYERS FOR RAIN - when it first came out in hardcover and that was a long while back. Thus, I have no recollection really if the earlier books were of the same style/tone that I'm bemoaning now.
One point I found rather odd, followed by a couple of other thoughts on the book:
One point I found rather odd, followed by a couple of other thoughts on the book:
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http://www.amazon.com/Live-Night-Nov...=live+by+night
Anybody pick up "Live By Night" yet? As soon as I get some extra money next week or the week after, I'm on this one.
Anybody pick up "Live By Night" yet? As soon as I get some extra money next week or the week after, I'm on this one.
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http://www.amazon.com/Live-Night-Nov...=live+by+night
Anybody pick up "Live By Night" yet? As soon as I get some extra money next week or the week after, I'm on this one.
Anybody pick up "Live By Night" yet? As soon as I get some extra money next week or the week after, I'm on this one.
I'm about 100 pages in on World Gone By-- the follow up to Live by Night-- and its decent. Stephen King calls it "the best gangster novel since the Godfather." I'm not so sure about that.
The Drop was okay, it was based of the movie screenplay and reads pretty much the same. I thought Moonlight Mile was fun enough, but definitely seems like a money grab. I read an interview from Lehane who said he may revisit those characters again at some point.
He also says his next novel (which I assume will be released next year) is about a marriage where the wife is convinced that her husband is living a double-life.