I love this book review...
Dec. 14th, 2006 02:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eviltammyAsk the Parrot by Richard Stark (in Entertainment Weekly Nov. 24)
If you're a fan of hard-boiled thrillers, slap in a mouth guard: This sucker's been boiled so long you might break a tooth. The latest installment in Stark's series about one-name master criminal Parker is a man's book, dammit, and so the focus is largely on cars and guns. Not in an action-movie kind of way, mind you; nothing in the book is in much of a hurry. Parker is practical, the men trying to stop him are noble but misguided, rifles are described more specifically than characters, and the ending is just that: the end. Stark (a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake) has no use for floofy denouements. Real men just stop reading when they're done.
They gave it a C-. I enjoyed it. But I really enjoyed the review.
If you're a fan of hard-boiled thrillers, slap in a mouth guard: This sucker's been boiled so long you might break a tooth. The latest installment in Stark's series about one-name master criminal Parker is a man's book, dammit, and so the focus is largely on cars and guns. Not in an action-movie kind of way, mind you; nothing in the book is in much of a hurry. Parker is practical, the men trying to stop him are noble but misguided, rifles are described more specifically than characters, and the ending is just that: the end. Stark (a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake) has no use for floofy denouements. Real men just stop reading when they're done.
They gave it a C-. I enjoyed it. But I really enjoyed the review.
