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S'està carregant… Under the Skin: A Novelde James Carlos Blake
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. First rate borderland adventure, but without - for my taste - pushing any boundaries very hard. Not hard enough, at any rate, to elevate the impact of the story to the same level as the words, which are used superbly. JCB's story spans time and place, Texas-Mexico, hunkering mostly around Galveston. I definitely felt well-served with detail: weapons, fights, whorehouses, historic battles, cars, meals, injuries - everything was described with the right amount of the right detail, so I never felt left hanging or overrun. I've never been a guy, but I imagine if I were, I'd want to be Jimmy. Didn't mind a bit the clubhouse jocularity. BUT the ending, which resolves into a sort of "Ok hombres, back to work" denouement as though it's that energy which is at the core the lifeblood of a man - - THAT didn't sit as well with me. One minor quibble: I didn't care for the passages done in present tense. I understand the desire to set the storylines apart with some stylistic distinction, if only to make the reader's job easier, but I don't think that was the right choice. But can JCB *write*? Yeah baby, and then some Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the Free State of Galveston," who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression. Raised on an isolated West Texas ranch that he was forced to flee at age eighteen following the violent breakup of his foster family, Jimmy has found a home and a profession in Galveston -- and a mentor in Rose Maceo. Looming over Jimmy's story like an ancient curse is the specter of his fearsome father. Their ties of blood, evident since Jimmy's boyhood, have been drawn tighter over time. Then a strange and beautiful girl enters his life and a swift and terrifying sequence of events is set in motion. Jimmy must cross the border and go deep into the brutal and merciless country of his ancestors -- where the story's harrowing climax closes a circle of destiny many years in the making. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Bref, j'ai beaucoup aimé. Le premier roman de Blake a par ailleurs été adapté en une très bonne BD. ( )