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Summary: Skillful twists lead to demise
Review: Colin Dexter's ability to weave a good tale is masterful indeed. His work truly works one's mind. There is no easy way through a Morse tale, even this last one. Dexter's use of appropos tidbits to introduce each short chapter have the links one finds in Annie Proulx. These Dexter novels are no simple whodunnits. I, too, love the PBS Mystery series featuring Morse and plan on taping and watching The Remorseful Day and its prequel The Final Morse this Thursday night. I am glad that I met the challenges of reading the novel first. One feels that Morse's death is a self-fulling prophecy. His alcoholism and diabetes do not produce a new Morse, just a dying one. This demise is both inevitable and in character. All the strings are found and tied up with this final chapter of his life. I find that I am not only entertained by Dexter's writing. I grow mentally as well. I really must get to Oxford before I die. Now that Morse is gone, I have one more reason.
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Summary: The Remorseful Day-Colin Dexter
Review: Dazzling. A fully satisfying closure to a truly great series. Although some of the more recent Inspector Morse novels have not equalled Dexter's highest standards, The Remorseful Day represents Dexter at the peak of his formidible powers.
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Summary: The Remorsefull Day
Review: Enthralling reading. Being so unlike the real thing it becomes believable. BUT Colin you killed my Endeavour Morse. Shame on you. Doyle brought Sherlock back to life..........
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Summary: Hard to say goodby
Review: Fourteen stories of Chief Inspector Morse just simply weren't enough. Colin Dexter's marvelous writing and puzzles within a mystery simply added to the already page turning plots and depth of characters and always with a side trip to your dictionary. This book is no exception to his wonderful ability to make you feel you know these people and places personally and are there witnessing as the events unfold. I read the last part thru teary eyes and now hope there can be one more visit to Reichenbach Falls in literature.
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Summary: It haunted me for days!
Review: I am so disappointed to see the Inspector Morse series end, but I have to say Colin Dexter is a champ in the way he achieved it! A year ago, a woman was murdered and left in an unpleasant state in her home. The Chief Superintendent has a new lead in the case. He has assigned Morse and Lewis to it. Morse, who is on vacation, won't bite. He refuses to work the case for the CID, but it doesn't stop him from being one step ahead, as usual, of Lewis. Of course Lewis, as usual, humbly works him self into the ground following leads and being Morse's second pair of eyes and hands. During this investigation, something is different about Lewis and something is worrying Morse. Mr. Dexter gives us plenty of intriguing characters that are as thought provoking as he crossword puzzles. The list of suspects is lengthy and perplexing, and the twists and turns are plentiful, but I have to say the greatest one will broadside the readers and leave them speechless at the close of the book. Mr. Dexter's skill at making his characters so life like, as if they were acting out in ones mind, is amazing. I took my time reading the mystery and found myself back tracking so I wouldn't miss a thing! Once I finished, I was haunted for days with the mystery and the outcome of the series. Mr. Dexter didn't just end a popular series in an astonishing way, he also intermingled a complex whodunit with an emotional twist that the characters and readers share. I have never used this word with any book I have reviewed, but I will with The Remorseful Day, it's stupendous.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I didn't think Colin Dexter was up to his usual skillful writing in this book. Perhaps it is just as well it is the final Inspector Morse novel.
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Summary: the remorseful daysorry to say goodbye
Review: I enjoyed this book not so much for the mystery but for the insight into Morse,Strange and Lewis. I really felt bad to lose Morse, he was such an interesting character and you don't find to many like him. I really would have liked to see him retire with his music etc. Pat Rowe(Connecticut)
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Summary: A Fascinating Finale
Review: I found this book to be a fitting, fascinating finale to a wonderful series. Colin Dexter provides another thought-provoking literary mystery yarn, with an added suspense of challenging the reader not only to solve the murder puzzle but also to discern what Morse is trying to hide. I found it sad going though to realize that evidently the series is at an end. Perhaps there will be flashbacks provided from the memory banks of reliable Sgt. Lewis. In any event, well done!
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Summary: Sadly, The Last Of Morse
Review: I have been a huge fan of the television version of the "Inspector Morse Mysteries" and because I have found them to be so well done, I decided that diving into the original written word might be very interesting. This was a correct assumption on my part. What a wonderful series and an amazing character. I'm very saddened to know that this book, "The Remorseful Day" is the last in a long and well done series. The most brilliant thing about Morse is that in the end he's a normal man with flaws. You can certainly find fault with many things he does, but it's with a certain charm and mystic that makes it all very endearing. I find him to be dashing, charming, wise and very gruff. That may be one of the things I enjoy most about him. He's no pushover and certainly not a man to be taken lightly. I love everything about him and certainly rank him right up there with Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and all the other famous English Detectives that have wowed and amazed up all. Comic relief is always added by Seg. Lewis. (Morse's sidekick) He seems to be a bumbling idiot but, so sweet and charming you just love him. I'm very sad to see Morse go and can only take comfort in the fact that I can keep these mysteries with me for ages and ages. A wonderful conclusion to a spectacular journey.
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Summary: A Disappointing Day
Review: I have read all oof the Inspector Morse books and loved all of them but the last. I don't feel that Ciolin Dexter needed to "trash" Morse's character as I think he did in this, the final book. Morse always drank a lot but not to the extent he did in this book. It really sullied his reputation and I didn't appreciate that. I hope John Thaw does not act in this final novel. Dexter is a marvelous writer and I enjoyed the twists and turns--- and the vocabulary, but not what he did to my dear Inspector Morse. I was affronted. twists and turns ---and the vocabulary, but not what he did th my dear Inspector Morse. I was affronted/
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