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Review Date: 6/2/2010
Helpful Score: 1
This is a good series for taking breaks between other series. Reading it is restful and the characters become like old friends you know. It really is like listening to some good gossip. I don't know if one book alone would be that satisfying but starting from the beginning and working your way through soothes and entertains.
Review Date: 3/9/2010
I don't find these books to have a huge narrative momentum--they are not exactly edge-of-the-seaters. The characters seem just a bit wooden, and the dialog isn't compelling or even super realistic.
BUT. There is something so sweet, peaceful, and relaxing about reading this series. You get familiar with the characters, and there are questions left open from one book to the next that keep you interested in what might happen next time. I find I keep reading them from one book to the next, and even look forward to them, and enjoy being in the middle of one. So I guess I'll stick with the series, and recommend it to the group.
BUT. There is something so sweet, peaceful, and relaxing about reading this series. You get familiar with the characters, and there are questions left open from one book to the next that keep you interested in what might happen next time. I find I keep reading them from one book to the next, and even look forward to them, and enjoy being in the middle of one. So I guess I'll stick with the series, and recommend it to the group.
Review Date: 6/2/2010
As you read each of these books it becomes that much more inevitable that you'll read the next one.
Review Date: 6/15/2017
Reading the #1 Detective Agency books is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, as I'm not sure if I ought to be reading about a Botswanian woman detective written by a male Scotsman. However, 44 Scotland Street has a lot of the same charm and feels guilt free.
Review Date: 6/2/2010
I'm getting to be a real part of the family over there at Cedar Cover...
Review Date: 6/9/2010
Each book you read of this series gets a little warmer, a little better, as the characters become more familiar. If you want to read to relax, this is a very nice way of doing so.
Review Date: 10/30/2013
Greatest American book ever. What be said beyond that?
Review Date: 10/30/2013
Everyone needs to read this at least once!
Review Date: 11/10/2016
Enjoying it very much!
Review Date: 10/9/2023
Fun book, a little over the top with the lighthearted flirting but a good window into another time and place.
Review Date: 6/2/2010
This book is really funny! Read it on a plane and laugh out loud the whole way. Great situations, great characters, great resolutions.
Review Date: 6/21/2012
It's fascinating to me that, although this book was written decades ago, the observations and perceptions appear to be very current. The description of the pathologies seem eerily accurate even from the standpoint of today's knowledge.
Review Date: 10/30/2013
Wow! Really good! Really interesting and readable AND good writing--a nice combo.
Review Date: 2/18/2010
A great Westlake--very funny, great dialog, hero an innocent with smarts. This is the reason I continue to read Westlake!
Review Date: 6/2/2010
Kinsey Milhone is fun and entertaining. I like her voice and her style. Sticking with her!
A Coffin for Dimitrios (aka The Mask of Dimitrios) (Charles Latimer, Bk 1)
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Review Date: 10/22/2015
Great early noir.
Review Date: 6/2/2010
I've just discovered Lisa Scottoline and she is GOOD. I feel as if she should be more famous. Her plots have some nice surprises, her initial premises are above average interesting, her characters are original, whimsical, realistic, funny. I intend to read all her books!
Review Date: 10/30/2013
I love Joanna Trollope! It's so nice to read a book that deals with relationships and situations most people don't write about, or if they do they do it in ways that are broad and stereotypical. Joanna Trollope is always nuanced, always interesting. Daughters-in-law does not disappoint.
Review Date: 10/26/2015
An averagely good story in its genre. Definitely on the readable side of the scale. Necessary if you're following the adventures of Hester and Monk.
Review Date: 6/2/2010
Why do I like the self-destructive protagonist of this book? Don't know, but I do! Anyway, she's smart and it's fascinating to read the legal stuff. Scottoline rocks.
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