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Title: L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole Novels)
ISBN: 0345434471
Author:
Robert Crais
Publicate Date: 2000-02-01
Publish: 2000-02-01
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: Another good action thriller writer
There are fewer and fewer really good thriller writers around, many thrillers are published, but dont live up to expectations!! this is a good one I must say. Crais books are always a decent read. If your into action thrillers look at the `Soft Target` trilogy by Conrad Jones, brilliant new author. Lee Childs latest was a let down but Connelly`s overlook was a good thriller too.
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2: Dead, dead, dead...
This book is cheap, slow and boring...
Like a bad hollywood movie, it's filled with flat characters and has no real style at all.
Nothing creative, new, surprising or engaging...
For amazing popular literature, there's the one and only
ELMORE LEONARD...
the great LEE CHILD
and others like STEPHEN KING (not my favorite, but a great writer nonetheless)
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3: The Best of Robert Crais' Elvis Cole's novels
The Best of Robert Crais' Elvis Cole's novels. I enjoyed this novel most because of more participation of Joe Pike. I like Elvis alot, but I just love Joe!. I hope that Crais writes another novel with Joe Pike as his primary subject. And I also love the Elvis character when he's funny and sarcastic, and funny. This is a very, very wonderful read. One you almost do not want to finish reading it.
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4: The Best Elvis Cole Novel I've Read
Many readers consider LA REQUIEM to be the best in Robert Crais's "Elvis Cole" series about a private detective working in LA. Having read this book, and the seven Cole novels that preceded it, I'm inclined to agree.
Crais is an unusally good writer of prose, but he is rather formulaic in his storylines. If you read his first seven Cole novels, they are all novels that follow a distinct pattern, and Crais rarely strays outside those lines. The result is usually an entertaining read, but a somewhat predictable one, with Elvis Cole serving as an invulnerable, wisecracking superhero.
With LA REQUIEM, Crais adopts a riskier approach, and jettisons much of the sophomoric humor that dominated the earlier Cole novels. The tone of this novel is darker and far more serious. Instead of Cole narrating the entire book, the reader is exposed to multiple perspectives. The supporting characterization is less cartoonish and more complex. Cole is also far more emotionally vulnerable in this novel, and his sidekick Pike becomes much more three dimensional as his backstory is fully revealed. The result is a crime novel that is richer and more satisfying than anything Crais has done before.
LA REQUIEM is an excellent read, although I wouldn't rank it along with the very best, like Thomas Harris's RED DRAGON, Dennis Lehane's MYSTIC RIVER, or Michael Connely's THE POET. Whatever his strengths, Crais just can't match the emotional depth of those great writers. Still, this is an excellent thriller, and it proves the point that Crais is one of the strongest writers in the genre.
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5: wow!
This is my first Joe Pike/Elvis Cole novel and I got to say Mr. Crais please make room for one more on your bandwagon.
This was my first novel from him and it won't be my last. Now I got to go back and read all the his books featuring Elvis Cole.
Highly recommended!
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