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Summary: Revealing, enlightening, engaging!!
Review: The best thing about this book is the prose. The author has a fantastic style. This a magical book that adresses racism, betrayal, and dignity. It keeps you glued to your seat reading well into the night as you follow the protagonist, Easy Rawlins, as he discovers himself after a midlife crisis. Mosley has done it again! And I look forward to his next book. I hugely recommend this book, all of his books. And if you're looking for a few other great titles, look no further than these, Buckland's Hot List: most creative, The Butterfly: A Fable (Singh); most engaging, The Alchemist (Coelho); most interesting, Life of Pi (Martel); most enlightening, 9-11 (Chomsky); most thrilling, The Lovely Bones: A Novel (Sebold); and finally, the most creative, engaging, interesting, enlightening and thrilling book of all, The Little Prince (Saint-Exupery). These are the books I'd recommend to my family, friends, students, and wife. There are many more, trust me, but these are the first that come to mind (for having left an impact slight or proud as it may be). If you have any questions, queries, or comments, or maybe even a title you think I should add to my list, please feel free to e-mail me. I'm always open to a good recommendation. Thanks for reading my brief but hopefully helpful review. Happy reading. Donald S. Buckland.
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Summary: Gotta read this if you want to know what happened to Mouse
Review: The seven short stories are definitely easy to read, and it's a pleasure to once more be in the company of Easy Rawlings. Here's a chance to finally find out what happened to Mouse, and to catch up on Easy, Feather, Jesus, and Bonnie. 6 Easy Pieces is not as engaging as the earlier books in the Easy Rawlings series; there is not the sense of place and time conveyed in those novels. Still, you won't be sorry you read this book, if you're a fan of Easy Rawlings.
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Summary: Gotta read this if you want to know what happened to Mouse
Review: The seven short stories are definitely easy to read, and it's a pleasure to once more be in the company of Easy Rawlings. Here's a chance to finally find out what happened to Mouse, and to catch up on Easy, Feather, Jesus, and Bonnie. 6 Easy Pieces is not as engaging as the earlier books in the Easy Rawlings series; there is not the sense of place and time conveyed in those novels. Still, you won't be sorry you read this book, if you're a fan of Easy Rawlings.
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Summary: Seven Easy Pieces
Review: This collection includes one new and six previously published longish short stories featuring one of Walter Mosley's most fascinating characters, Easy Rawlins, a man who grew up more or less on his own and who has had his difficulties with the other side of the law at least partly because of his childhood friend, Mouse, who is a killer. He is, like Mosley's other character, Socrates Fortlow, trying to keep his life together in spite of the odds.He functions as a sort of unofficial detective who gets involved in the troubles of people who might not otherwise go to the police with their problems, and as such he serves a real purpose in this gritty urban scene. Of course, Easy has been the protagonist in seven Mosley novels by now. These short stories fill in some of the gaps in his life history and as such contain background and psychological material that I think would be important for readers of the novels.
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Summary: easy historical mystery read
Review: This seven-story anthology focuses on the life of Easy Rawlins as he tries to serve as a role model for his two kids, be faithful to his sweetheart, and stay off the streets of 1964 Watts. Six of the tales were included one at a time with the recent releases of the first six Mouse novels. Yet in spite of the not long ago reissues of these tales, fans will relish seeing them along with one new story in this book though cost should be considered. As always the cast including the allegedly dead Mouse makes Walter Mosley's contributions so much fun to read. SIX EASY PIECES is an easy historical mystery read. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Easy does it.
Review: This was a much welcomed gift to us Easy fans from Walter Mosley, Even though the stories were all published in reissues of his previous works, they seem to flow smoothly. Dead or alive, Mouse has to be one of the most intriguing characters in Mystery Fiction today, aside from Ezekiel Rawlins. This is a must have for true fans, but WARNING; it will leave you ready for more.
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