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The Serialist [With Earbuds] (2010)

by David Gordon(Favorite Author)
3.69 of 5 Votes: 3
ISBN
1441727914 (ISBN13: 9781441727916)
languge
English
publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
review 1: This book was awesome. It took me a bit to get into it, I think that had to do with reading another first person novel right before this, and transitioning between those voices wasn't easy. That's totally on me though. After I got the feel for the character I almost couldn't put the book down. I read on my breaks at work and made it back late quite a few times just trying to get the next page read. It's fun, fast, and insightful. I loved it. I want to read it again one day and see if the clues are as obvious as the narrator tells us they are right before the reveals.
review 2: I very much wanted to love this book and how could I not? It had at least three things I adore: Jim Thompson novels, Prime Suspect, and Amtrak hot dogs. But, in the end the relentl
... moreess sliding from humor to horrific violence was a little too much. Not too disturbing, that would be giving the author too much credit for a gimmick born of too much education on writing. It was just a sort of whipsawing that was slightly nauseating, like a roller coaster that's three minutes too long less
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charcoal
Great mix of thriller and humor. Kind of like a mix between Douglas Adams and Stieg Larsson.
areej
Way too predictable. Comedy is an interesting twist for the gory serial killer genre though.
buscador030
Funny and kinda kinky. Not for prudes.
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