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Summary: NOTHING SPECIAL!!
Review: This is the first Walter Mosley book I have read. Everybody seems to be rating this author very highly and say that his books are amazing. I'm not convinced. It seems like an ordinary mystery story to me. The dialogue and language is a lot more relaxed than you would find in most books which makes it easy to read. Nevertheless, I found a lot of it hard to follow and found that I got bored with it very easily even though I did manage to finish it. It is worth reading but don't expect anything special because it really isn't. The characters are very believable but they suffer from a disjointed and in some ways unbelieveable story. Make your own mind up. I prefer John Grisham every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
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Summary: NOTHING SPECIAL!!
Review: This is the first Walter Mosley book I have read. Everybody seems to be rating this author very highly and say that his books are amazing. I'm not convinced. It seems like an ordinary mystery story to me. The dialogue and language is a lot more relaxed than you would find in most books which makes it easy to read. Nevertheless, I found a lot of it hard to follow and found that I got bored with it very easily even though I did manage to finish it. It is worth reading but don't expect anything special because it really isn't. The characters are very believable but they suffer from a disjointed and in some ways unbelieveable story. Make your own mind up. I prefer John Grisham every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
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Summary: Rawlings is weird
Review: This is the second Easy Rwalings book, a series by Walter Mosley.
It's a short and fast-paced book, easy to read. There are two problems with Easy Rawlings, though. As happens with all Mosley books, the plots are kind of misty, you just don't know for sure what Rawlings must do or discover through the story. Other thing I find extremely annoying is that, except Rawlings, other characters are completely undeveloped, they're just names thrown into the story, making it a little confusing, you almost never know who is who and what part they seem to take in the plot. Easy Rawlings is a funny character, though a little too stupid. He acts before he thinks. Mosley thinks this is a means to provide action in the book and it works well, but I thought Easy was rather obtuse sometimes. But maybe Mosley just wanted to create a story as close to reality as possible. As in "Devil in a blue dress", the most interesting character is Mouse, Easy's friend, a murderer without scruples, who should get a book of his own. I'll give a try to "White Butterfly", the next book in the series. Grade 7.3/10
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Summary: Brilliant weave of provacative mystery and intrigue
Review: This was my first Walter Mosley novel. I had not done any reading for fun for some time. This book engulfs the reader in the world that Easy Rawlins exists in. All characters are beautifully distinct and colorful. You will truly enjoy this book.
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Summary: There's much to enjoy and ponder...
Review: Watts-1953 and everything's easy for Ezekiel Porterhouse "Easy" Rawlins. His real estate investments are doing well, he has good friends and finally has access to the woman of his dreams [downside: she's the estranged wife of his best friend!] Things become not so easy very quickly though as our protagonist attracts the attention of a zealous IRS agent, becomes a reluctant undercover agent for the FBI, loses one of his best and long time friends and finds himself a possible suspect in several murders. To clear himself and make peace with his inner world, he must find the killer[s]. Mosely guides his audience through various characters, locations and situations. What appeals to me about his writing, aside from the fluid use of language and imagery and the creation of believable, albeit complex characters, is his ability to distill and articulate certain thoughts as they existed in the minds black people in America in the 50's [if not today!]. Mosely writes about who and what he knows, just as Gresham knows the law and creates settings and situations based on his particular knowledge, so too Mosely. A Red Death is solid, colorful and entertaining storytelling. Take it, "Easy!"
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Summary: There's much to enjoy and ponder...
Review: Watts-1953 and everything's easy for Ezekiel Porterhouse "Easy" Rawlins. His real estate investments are doing well, he has good friends and finally has access to the woman of his dreams [downside: she's the estranged wife of his best friend!] Things become not so easy very quickly though as our protagonist attracts the attention of a zealous IRS agent, becomes a reluctant undercover agent for the FBI, loses one of his best and long time friends and finds himself a possible suspect in several murders. To clear himself and make peace with his inner world, he must find the killer[s]. Mosely guides his audience through various characters, locations and situations. What appeals to me about his writing, aside from the fluid use of language and imagery and the creation of believable, albeit complex characters, is his ability to distill and articulate certain thoughts as they existed in the minds black people in America in the 50's [if not today!]. Mosely writes about who and what he knows, just as Gresham knows the law and creates settings and situations based on his particular knowledge, so too Mosely. A Red Death is solid, colorful and entertaining storytelling. Take it, "Easy!"
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