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Lädt ... Blood on the Moon (Original 1984; 2005. Auflage)von James Ellroy
Werk-InformationenBlut auf dem Mond. Sonderausgabe. von James Ellroy (1984)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. If you're an Ellroy fan, then this is interesting enough to warrant a 3 (to see the development of Ellroy's themes and obsessions), but if you're not it's probably a 1. So I'll settle. Un asesino en serie, metódico y concienzudo, del que nadie sabe nada. Los asesinatos se han producido a lo largo de los últimos veinte años sin que nadie sospechara que podía haberlos cometido la misma persona. Lo más sorprendente es el parecido, en algunos aspectos de la vida, entre Hopkins y el criminal. Ambos personajes están obsesionados por las mujeres. Ambos las aman, aunque cada uno a su manera. Ambos, también fueron violados de niños. Son dos iluminados con una misión que cumplir y que terminan enfrentándose al cruzarse sus caminos. Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins seems to be a genius at his job but so much in his private life. But his insight provides a link with the deaths of females over the last twenty years if only he could convince his superiors to provide the manpower. Strangely I think overall I really enjoyed the book, but it had its moments when I was not too sure of that. A man has been brutally murdering women over many years and getting away with it because no one has ever connected the deaths as each murder is quite different from the last. But police detective Lloyd Hopkins notices something at one wrongful death that leads him to connecting the pieces. Can he also find out who the killer is before more innocent people are consigned to death? So, I had previously read Ellory's L.A. Quartet books and had enjoyed them for the most part. There were certainly some problematic parts, with racist and misogynist language being big on that list, but I felt those could be chalked up to showing a seedier side of the so-called "good old days." On the whole, the mysteries and characterizations were compelling enough to overpower the issues. So I thought I might try this other series as well. Well, here is a different story altogether. The book immediately opens with a gratuitous scene of physical and sexual violence that is unsettling. (Further acts of violence are later included; while also bloody and gross, these seem to fit the narrative a bit better and are somewhat less disturbing.) The narrative then shifts awkwardly to race riots, which really have very little to do with the rest of the book and seems to just be an excuse for Ellory to drop the n-word repeatedly. The rest of the book then takes places in the 1980s (aka the same time it was being written) so there's really no reason for the outdated misogyny and fake morality to be so prevalent. The fact that Hopkins The characterizations felt choppy at best; Hopkins and the killer are the only ones really given much development and even that is pretty bare bones. In fact, it's more like "back story" than development as "development" would imply some kind of growth or change. Side characters are exactly that -- there just to move the narrative forward and equally able to change personalities as needed for the story to proceed. The story itself is not that compelling either. This book is decidedly not a mystery because you see from the killer's point of view and know who he is stalking and even why he is doing the things he does; the only thing you don't know is his actual name (although you know all the other details of his past and present situations, such as the high school he attended and his place of work). As this is an Ellory book, you also know that somehow or other Hopkins will put the pieces together eventually; it's just a matter of how and when. Sometimes such a device can work well, but here it sort of fell flat. It should have ramped up the suspense but instead it all felt so inevitable. Ellory is definitely talented as a writer, and you can see some of the literary devices he was going for, such as setting up Hopkins and the killer as mirrored foils. But this book just doesn't have enough value to outweigh the cons. I won't be continuing on with this series. Note: the audiobook narrator did a good job, but he could not save a bad book. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheLloyd Hopkins (1) Gehört zu VerlagsreihenEtiqueta Negra (100) Il giallo [Mondadori] (2525)
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He's a thinking man's cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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