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The Sun Never Rises In The Big City (2000)

by Jeremy C. Shipp(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 1

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review 1: A pretend mystery becomes a real mystery when a "rag" (slave) girl is killed. The rag's powerful owner goes looking for the killer.The pacing is excellent. The twist is unexpected and a little funny. But as a whole, the story just didn't gel for me. I never really got into the avant-garde type of SF that revels in moral ambiguity. If you like stories like this, you'll probably find it a 5-star read.
review 2: This short story Kindle e-book started out as a generic hard-boiled detective novel with a broad asking a shamus to investigate her apparently lecherous husband.But then the broad dies, and the story turns into something altogether different.Shipp writes gritty dialogue worthy of the hard-boiled genre. In fact, I downloaded the story on the basis of the di... morealogue on the first page alone.The story is pretty weird and throws curve balls at the reader a lot of times. I kept wondering what the heck was going on, and I didn't see the ending coming. Probably because I had no idea where the story was going most of the time!I did not know anything about the story beforehand and I downloaded it on the basis of reading the first page. I didn't know it was a bizarro story, but if I did, that would have probably spoiled half the fun.On the whole, I enjoyed reading this--I love bizarro--and am now interested in checking out the author's other work. Attic Clowns looks interesting, for starters. less

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