Books by Lawrence Block
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review 1: Block's Matthew Scudder novels are a favorite of mine, even if I'm not a huge fan of short stories in general. I do love a good Lawrence Block story, which most are, so I gave this book a spin. "The Night and the Music" is one of the few short story collections that was satisfy...
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review 1: Frustrating. After enjoying his first Scudder book so much, I probably shouldn't have jumped straight to his last book (#17, written about 30 years later), but it was the only one available at my library branch. That'll show me. I waffled between 2.5 and 3 stars, but it ended ok,...
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review 1: Fairly enjoyable collection of 3-4 relatively unrelated stories about Block's Keller, who's retired from the killer business and living a boring life in New Orleans as a house rennovator and stamp collector with a young wife and small child. He gets drawn back into doing a few jo...
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review 1: I was very glad to get this as a gift, and very glad to read it--but it's terrible. Aside from a couple early Ed London stories showing the beginnings of Matt Scudder, a passable sci-fi story, and a not-bad story he rewrote later, it's bad. Unless you like many laughable sexual...
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review 1: Even if I hadn't known this was written by Lawrence Block, I would never have mistaken this for a book by a woman. What happened to story arc? This was just a series of scenes with graphic sex and murder after murder. Did Lawrence Block simply have a deadline to meet and this ...
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review 1: This is my first Bernie Rhodenbarr book, I enjoyed his character, the effortless way he enters whichever house he feels compelled to. I like his best friend Carolyn, I got caught up in their weekly food and drink dates. I enjoyed the whodunit, poor mrs ostermeyer (sp) and what ha...
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review 1: It's rare I give a book by Mr. Block anything less than five stars. Nor can I put my finger on why I liked this one less than any of his others. It's not that it's not well-written, because it is. It's not that you are left hanging at the end, even though you are, because I've n...
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review 1: After seeing A WALK AMONG TOMBSTONES at the theater, I was looking for a novel that would make me feel as sad and as bleak as the movie did, without the unfortunate elements that I had to forgive in the theater. This was the closest option and I grabbed it. It doesn't have the sa...