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Summary: The Sam Spade of the '80s
Review: I recently read that Fletch, the movie, was a terrible adaptation of Fletch, the book. Well I liked the movie, so naturally I got curious about how much better the book could be.The book turned out to be very close to the movie. It's really more like a screenplay than a novel: mostly action and dialogue, it lays down the facts and lets you do your own musing about what's going on. Like a good screenplay, you can really see the story coming to life in your head. Fletch, the character, is the typical wandering man. A drudge-reporter, twice divorced, dodging alimoney, sliding from romance to romance, hardly earning enough to get by but good at what he does, Fletch is a modern noir hero. He's always going undercover, pretending to be other people, perhaps because he's searching for who he is. For the lonely searcher, or for the average reader, Fletch is good entertainment in book or movie form.
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Summary: FanTAStic!
Review: Let me just state, for the record, that I am not a fan of Mystery novels. I don't read mysteries. Period. However, the Fletch novels fall into a category of unique exception. Like the works of Leonard and Ellroy, the Fletch novels trancend their genre to become standouts in the field of character-driven fiction. The dialogue pops, the scenes blend beautifully into one another and the plots flow seamlessly. It's no wonder Kevin Smith claims to have learned dialogue from Gregory MacDonald. The dialogue leaps off the page. The words paintthe image of every scene. I would recommend these novels to anyone looking for a legit read.
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Summary: FanTAStic!
Review: Let me just state, for the record, that I am not a fan of Mystery novels. I don't read mysteries. Period. However, the Fletch novels fall into a category of unique exception. Like the works of Leonard and Ellroy, the Fletch novels trancend their genre to become standouts in the field of character-driven fiction. The dialogue pops, the scenes blend beautifully into one another and the plots flow seamlessly. It's no wonder Kevin Smith claims to have learned dialogue from Gregory MacDonald. The dialogue leaps off the page. The words paintthe image of every scene. I would recommend these novels to anyone looking for a legit read.
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Summary: Best Plot and Dialogue of All Time
Review: Please read this book. The plot is amazing. Perfect in its pacing and just enough left to your imagination to make it fun. The dialogue is a stitch. If you saw the movie "Fletch" with Chevy Chase, you can just see and hear Chevy Chase delivering the lines. There is no shortage of laughs in this book. Very little in the book happens outside of Fletch's view so you see what he sees. The book abounds in dialogue and is told almost exclusively through dialogue, pages and pages of it. The wit is amazing. Read and enjoy.
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Summary: Best Plot and Dialogue of All Time
Review: Please read this book. The plot is amazing. Perfect in its pacing and just enough left to your imagination to make it fun. The dialogue is a stitch. If you saw the movie "Fletch" with Chevy Chase, you can just see and hear Chevy Chase delivering the lines. There is no shortage of laughs in this book. Very little in the book happens outside of Fletch's view so you see what he sees. The book abounds in dialogue and is told almost exclusively through dialogue, pages and pages of it. The wit is amazing. Read and enjoy.
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