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Books Read in 2015 (19) Books Read in 2014 (10) » 24 més Books Read in 2017 (195) Top Five Books of 2014 (344) Best Crime Fiction (76) Top Five Books of 2015 (375) Books Read in 2018 (506) Unread books (329) Overdue Podcast (241) To Read (135) Books on my Kindle (62) Unshelved Book Clubs (74) Murder Mysteries (49) Animals in the Title (184) Great Britain (100) Books About Murder (305) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Enjoyed this. The first half kept a good pace, the second half dragged a bit as the plot got a bit bogged down in detail but recovered before the end. A good story - may well read another although hope there's a bit fewer celebrities and handbags...... ( ![]() The author's writing is too insightful and wonderfully descriptive to label this as what other reviewers are calling a run of the mill mystery. That being said, I was expecting to be surprised by the ending and unfortunately I wasn't. I still enjoyed this book and look forward to more by JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith. Some quotable quote favorites: “The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.” ― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling “Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.” ― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling “You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at a lap-dancing club, but you want twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house when someone's trying to force your bathroom window open. Can't have it both ways.” Genialer Krimi. Sehr spannend, ich konnte das Buch kaum weglegen. Wunderbare Charaktere, detailliert gezeichnet, sehr liebenswert. Keine logischen Fehler, völlig undurchschaubare Story – vielleicht das erste Mal bei einem Krimi, dass ich bis zum Ende komplett auf der falschen Fährte war. Sehr gute Sprache. Der einzige Vorwurf, den man Rowling machen kann, ist, dass Strikes Geheimniskrämerei nicht sehr überzeugend ist. Aber natürlich ist das auch nötig, um den wahren Mörder vor dem Leser geheim zu halten. Der beste Krimi, den ich seit langem gelesen habe. This was an okay book. Not very special, in fact it was quite boring, no suspense, not much action or things that make a book great, a pageturner. It went on and on and on and that was it. I finished it because I dislike not finishing a book, except when it's really horrible. I'm not sure if I'll listen to the next book in the series and then read the third. I'm not really interested enough in the characters that walk around in the novel. ( I really enjoyed this. I enjoyed the word crafting - that sort of thing always pleases me. I found I went back and forth a little to check details in the story, and I *still* didn’t guess “whodunnit”. I found a lot of the details read in a very authentic way, having had a friend with a recent prosthetic limb, I saw exactly the same comments from the character as those said by my friend. I believe this novel must’ve been thoroughly researched.
Ublodig, men ikkje blodfattig Når Harry Potter-forfattar J.K. Rowling går til krimmen, satsar ho meir på person- og miljøskildring enn på å dikte opp utspekulerte drapsmetodar. Det er heilt ok. In “The Cuckoo’s Calling” Ms. Rowling — er, Mr. Galbraith — seems to have similarly studied the detective story genre and turned its assorted conventions into something that, if not exactly original, nonetheless showcases her satiric eye (most in evidence in the Potter books in her portraits of the bureaucrats and blowhards associated with the Ministry of Magic) and her instinctive storytelling talents. The Cuckoo’s Calling and Harry Potter both feature dead or absent parents, adoptees, and family intrigue. They both imagine highly complex worlds that are nonetheless knowable—if you study their laws closely—and amusing, and beautiful, and dangerous. If I’m honest, though, I liked Galbraith just a bit better than late Rowling. (The first four Harry Potter books still reign supreme.) While both writers are funny, suspenseful, and sharp about race and class, he seems under less pressure to take himself and his story seriously. I wonder why. There is no sign whatsoever that this is Galbraith’s first novel, only that he has a delightful touch, both for evoking London and for capturing a new hero. It is an auspicious debut.
"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man" -- from publisher's web site. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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