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Summary: Compare to "Poet" seems like a dissapointment
Review: "The Poet" was my first book by Michael Connelly. It as awsome. I thought all of his books were as suspensful and interesting as "The Poet". I bought "The Trunk Music" and it was a dissapointment. The plot was unfolding very slow. It was full of unneseccary boring dialogs and lacked that marvelous suspense force that keeps you interested and read further. "Blood Work" is much, much better.
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Summary: Cliche and derivative.
Review: I bought this book because I saw it in the bargain bin at Barnes and Nobles. I was looking for something light to read (having just finished a dense, difficult read). I found it pretty dull. It relied on a long tradition of LA detective cliches, but it didn't do anything new with them. The story was slowly paced and the characters were about as stock as you can get...."the sleazy b-movie director with ties to the mob", "the washed up actress trophy wife", the "depressed hooker from Las Vegas who really just wants another shot..." cmon....
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Summary: After reading "Blood Work" and the " Poet" ,
Review: I had difficulty at first switching to a new lead character, but now thoroughly love Harry. And just ordered the other "Harry books". Keep writing and I'll keep reading.
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Summary: Very suspensful
Review: i loved the book,, but i cant say too much about it because i dont remember the story itself that much, since it has been a while since i have read the book, but i remember not putting it down and it had a solid eneding
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Summary: Connelly never disappoints
Review: I've read the first five Harry Bosch novels, and have come to regard them as one continuous narrative in the eventful life of an old friend. Trunk Music was one of the better installments, and displays Connelly's typical mastery of plot development and authentic characterization. I've never found anyone in this genre whose dialogue rings truer, reminding me of a print version of a Steven Bochco show. Trunk Music also re-energizes the formula by introducing some great new characters in fellow cops Kizmin Rider and Grace Billets, and bringing back old flame Eleanor Wish. Connelly weaves ambitiously intricate mysteries, always with several possible outcomes suggested. At times he seems to overreach, and the ending here feels a little rushed and unsatisfying. It's not that he leaves loose ends; everything is explained in his chosen scenario, it just seems that something with greater ironic power might have been available in this case. However, as I began this review, the more of these I read, the less I require them to be stand-alone masterpieces, and the more I simply relish inhabiting Bosch's world for a while.
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Summary: Not as good a THE POET, but still a decent read
Review: I actually read this book on the plane from California to New York and back. It was a page turner, and a quick read (and I'm a slow reader). I expected more from the author who gave us THE POET. It didn't have the same punch, and he telegraphed all the plot points...but I'll be reading the next Harry Bosch thriller as soon as it comes out.
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Summary: Just Another Day at the Police Park
Review: This is the first Connelly book I have read. I felt as though I was reading a cheap murder mystery that I could of watched on TV and saved some time. The story wasn't all that bad. There just wasn't something there that clicked with me. I am an avid reader and love a good suspense or murder mystery. So, I feel as though I can judge from cheep to a good read and this book was just in-between. I will most likely try another book by this author hopefully with better luck.
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Summary: Not his best, but plenty good
Review: Connelly hits a triple with this one
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Summary: Harry Bosch, holier-than-thou
Review: This was the third book I've read by Connelly, and the one that finally made me cry "Enough!" The plot, like all the others, is pinned to betrayal in high places, with enough red herrings thrown in to force the evacuation of a fish pier and keep one off-balance. But the character of Bosch, sheesh. He started out decent enough, but becomes in "Trunk Music" even more self righteous than the good cop delivering a lecture on a bad TV series. When he finally pitches his coup de grace to one of his (many) "tormentors," (noone's as smart or good as Harry) part of me wanted the "bad guy" to jump up and eloquently defend himself against the raving lunatic. Ah well.
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Summary: Awful, formulaic with an annoying main character
Review: Connely's Bosch is a loser. His gratuitious ranting against the IAD types, to give us a supposedly "common enemy," is hackneyed; the plots always revolve around a betrayal that one can figger from page 85, once one has slogged through one of his tomes. I picked up his first with high hopes and ended it feeling suckered. In fact, all of his lead characters, far from being the "common man" he appears to intend, come off as annoying whiners. Arggh.
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