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Una Sporca Faccenda (2014)

by Robert Littell(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

9788866881421

review 1: Quite a surprise, in that this is very different from what I have previously read by Littell.It's actually sort of fun, but I began to lose patience towards the end. Initially, it read like a very clever satire of the standard hard-boiled private investigator genre. That dissipated, though, and some violence which struck me as a bit over the top eventually put me off.Lemuel Gunn, the P.I., is hard to distinguish from others of his type. He is a standard war veteran-type, though the Afghan conflict this time, who lives in a shabby and eccentric way and has the usual preoccupation with women with endless legs and other pin-up-worthy body parts. That the dialogue is the typical snappy type is not a negative, but also not distinctive.The plot, though, is indeed inventive, ... moreand the Southwestern setting is not the proforma big coastal city one. All this adds up to a reasonably enjoyable reading experience, but with a bit of guilt that my reading time was not spent on something more sustaining.
review 2: Let me begin by stating I didn't make it past page 164.I've read reviews by others and apparently this author normally wrote spy novels...I hadn't read him yet.I couldn't have been less interested in main character Lemuell Gunn, I don't know how this story made it to the shelves. My breaking point was when it becomes known he doesn't know how to use a cell phone. Seriously. Gunn is a P.I. Maybe you'd say yea but he's broke and works out of a trailer park, okay, but in that case, give me something else! Give him something to make me care about. Reacher gives me an investigative and brooding story most of the time. Reading Gunn's progression was so boring and anti-climatic. I felt like literally anybody could do what he was doing, nothing about him gave him an edge. Even his recollection about his days in combat (maybe the only interesting part of the story, and there's a story there) did nothing but stimulate a question whether killing someone is the same as letting someone kill someone. Gunn comes off like a golden retriever, and reading him talk was often painfully dull. Maybe I'll check out his other works, but I'd advise to pass on this one. less

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