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Whispering Nickel Idols: A Garrett, P.I., Novel
Price: $7.99
Description
In TunFaire, a city of gorgeous women, powerful sorcerers and dangerous magic, the beautiful, criminally insane daughter of a comatose crime boss has some lascivious designs on private investigator Garrett-who now has to figure out why everyone is suddenly after him.
I'm a little late to the party
Date: 2009-05-29 Rating: 10 out of 10
Unlike some of these other people, I actually just started reading the Garret series last year, I stumbled on them and then ended up buying the whole series. I love them, I love how they read, so easy and I get right into them and then when I'm done, I'm dissapointed that it's over. I hope he keeps writing this series because it's like an old friend you can't wait to see.
BewertungenAn OK book, but could have been Great with a Good EditorDatum 2009-02-24 Rang: 6 von 10Glen Cook's book "Whispering Nickel Idols" is an "OK" book. By "OK", I mean that I would recommend this book as one to read if your in the need for some mindless reading entertainment and want to be amused by witty sayings done by the main character. With a good editor, it had the possibility to have been a great book. Specific observations:
1) This book's feel is best described as "choppy". It has 81 chapters in it, one of which is ONE page of written material. This had to have been deliberately done (or agreed to) by the author. Much like a MTV music video, which used quick "cuts" to create tension in your viewing, this created tension in the reading of the book. Tension which was, quite frankly, not needed or desired.
2) The writing flow was also choppy. I can summarize the book as so: Garrett goes out, does something in 2-3 sentences while making witty sayings/whining about something/whining about money/admiring Tinnie/talks about or visits friends, then comes back and either checks on Dead Man/talks to dead man/drinks beer/talks about Dean/looks at something in door/goes to sleep.
3) Garrett keeps complaining throughout this book. Look, I get it. He's a curmudgeon. I'm tired of hearing him complain. After the third time of him complaining about getting up in the morning it became irritating. Have him do something for goodness sakes.
4) Other than Garrett, the author takes some great characters....and does absolutely nothing with them. No expansion of them, no revelations, no nothing. The two main female characters in this book could have been sooo much more. Heck, there could have been tension between them throughout most of the book (and for good reason) over the main character...and that could have been an interesting subplot. Note to author: Sometimes readers take an interest in the other characters, especially since they've been in how many of the books?
5) The ending was a complete letdown. I'm only telling you that so you won't be disappointed. A whole book....to get to that. Ouch.
The really irritating thing about this book is that with the proper editor, this book could have been really good. Cook's creativity, grasp of his characters, ability to see things and write about them is outstanding. His basic idea of what he wants to do with the book is sound. But he needs someone he trusts to tell him when he's gone too far with some things and not far enough with others (like, oh, moving the story along and not having it repeat it's basic form over...and over...and over again). Just my opinion, your mileage my vary.Utterly RidiculousDatum 2007-08-27 Rang: 2 von 10After reading 90 pages, I still had no idea what the story was about. The book went into the trash.Give Us MORE Garrett !!Datum 2006-05-31 Rang: 10 von 10I don't know what it is about this guy Glen Cook, but I just cannot get enough of him. Any character who claims beer is his favorite food and redheads are his favorite sport is my kind of guy. If someone told me it was possible to blend the fantasy lit world of elves and fairies with the Dectective Noir world of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, i would laugh in their face. However, Glen Cook does exactly that. And it works. I have laughed my way through all eleven Garrett books and I can't wait for more. All I can say is I hope Mr. Cook considers taking some more time off from his job at the General Motors light duty truck plant and writing us some more Garrett. I cannot get enough. Plaid Platinum PantsDatum 2006-03-31 Rang: 10 von 10It feels like it has been forever since the last Garrett, P.I. novel. Glen Cook, who has some truly dark fantasy series to his credit has always used this series, starring a mundane tough guy detective (think Archie Goodwin) and his partner The Dead Man (think an undead Nero Wolf in an elephant suit), as his lighter side. Garrett is usually the butt of the jokes (both his mouth and his romantic abilities keep him in hot water) and The Dead Man provides both magical and mental assitance (as well as a good deal of sarcasm. The result is a steady stream of adventure, crisis, and smirks.
Garrett's problem this time is that he woke up from a perfectly good night of sleep to discover a child called Penny Dreadful has convinced Dean, the housekeeper, to provide a home for a bucket of unusual cats. In short order a number of people (mostly in plaid pants) are trying very hard to kill Garrett. This serves as a distraction from the job Garrett has been hired to do - find out how crime czar Chodo Contague became a vegetable. Making this a bit complicated is Belinda Contague, a beautiful, intelligent, warmhearted psychotic with a yen for the detective. But that's life in TunFaire.
In case this sounds too tepid there is a family of alcoholic pixies, a homicidal vegetarian elf, a born again blacksmith, and a really deadly redhead in the mix, and they are Garrett's friends. You don't want to know about the bad guys or the not so bad guys. The Dead Man, who prefers to sleep is woken up by the chaos and the only thing worse than not being helped by a four hundred year dead corpse is being helped by one that thinks you are a congenital idiot.
These tales are unalloyed fun. Cook often ventures into serious matters, but only for short visits. One of Garrett's weaknesses is a streak of integrity that often gets him into bad situations that he should have lied his way out of, but he is no angel. While this is fantasy, even the exotic creatures have a touch of believability to them. Bad puns, bad neighborhoods, and crazy citizens aside, TunFaire is still the place to be when you need a change of pace.
Produkt InformationAutor:
Glen Cook
Recording label: Roc Hersteller: RocEAN: 9780451459749Format: PaperbackDewey decimal number: 813ISBN: 0451459741Artikelzahl: 1Seitenzahl: 368Erscheinungsdatum: 2005-05-03Sprache: English (Original Language)
Sprache: English (Unknown)
Sprache: English (Published)
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