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Summary: A little bit too weird.
Review: This attempt at transcending the sci-fi genre ends up feeling like a mixed bag. Rather gory at parts, it ends up feeling like an alternative Anne Rice universe with the emphasis on blood and sex. If there was a higher metaphysical purpose or meaning in the story, I missed it.
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Summary: Mosley's Worst, By Far
Review: This book can be summed up in one word, "Awful"
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Summary: Forced and unnecessarily disgusting read
Review: This book is not what the cover and reviews promise, I enjoy
sci-fi books, but this book was forced and a pointless read. I will never read another Mosley book again! There goes five hours of my life I will never get back! If you feel the need to read this book, I beg you, warn you----don't do it, please! I mean Gray Man---get real! (if I could give it negative five stars I would)
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Summary: Mosley captivates and intrigues from beginning to end!
Review: This book is rich with symbolism. When I first started reading the book, I thought Mosley had gone over the deep end. As I continued to read, I realized why he is one of the best.
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Summary: Mosley?
Review: This book reminds of The Stand more than it does Walter Mosely. I keep forgetting that Stephen King didn't write this. It is a definite departure from what I've come to know. But it is intriguing.
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Summary: Amazingly Good Book
Review: This book was incredible! It's the first book in a long time that I took with me everywhere until I finished it. I know some other people have bagged this novel, but I found it to be stimulating, powerfully allegorical, and compelling the the way the characters are developed. Give this book a chance, you will not regret it!
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Summary: A wonderful diversion ...
Review: This read is much different from Moseley's other works. I'm hungry for more. Way to go Easy!
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Summary: Dim Story
Review: This was a very disappointing story. I listened to the unabridged version and fell asleep on parts of the story without feeling like I missed anything. It took quite a while to get into and understand what was happening with the mysterious blue light, which is never truly explained. Chance, who tells the story of the blue light, is not a character that you come to care about, he's one of many people with a confusing story connecting him with the blue light. The other protaganists did very little to help push the story along, and I could not figure out the reason for the antaganist, Greyman (who by the way was corny). Though parts of the book was interesting, the ending left me highly annoyed. It was over 9 hours of wasted time.
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Summary: More Easy Rawlins! More Socrates Fortlow!
Review: Walter Mosely is one of my favorite authors. I read all of the Easy Rawlins mysteries. I also read Gone Fishin' which is not a mystery and Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. So, of course, I picked up Blue Light with anticipation. I didn't enjoy the book. I couldn't wrap my brain around it. It seemed a little too strange. I think I prefer the hard, street, reality mystery and drama that attracted me to Mosely's writing in the first place. So, this is the one Mosely book I won't finish. I do look forward to the author's next endeavor.
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Summary: Deeply Profound, Dogmatically Disappointing
Review: Walter Mosely's writing style will captivate you, in fact it is the catalyst that brings you to the end of this trite novel. However the unfathomable plot and foolhardy character's make you wonder, when will this novel end? Mosely's attempt at the mystical is by all means fulfilled. The "blue light" awakens those who perceive, touch, and experience the bounty of death, and it is the character death that leads Mosely's diverse characters into the depths of the woods. The culmination occurs in a place where the fearless "blue lights" believe they are safe (and you thought this group was enlightened). You would think in the early stages of the novel that Mosely is attempting to reveal a divine group of individuals, who are on the brink of understanding the essense of life, however the end reveals this story is nothing more than a ficticious tale of good versus evil.
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