David Carnoy
Auteur de Knife Music
Œuvres de David Carnoy
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Carnoy, David
- Autres noms
- Carnoy, David A.
- Date de naissance
- 1965
- Sexe
- male
- Professions
- Executive Editor at CBS Interactive
Membres
Critiques
This is not a short book, but I was so engrossed in the audio version that I just couldn't stop listening until I got to the end--stayed up late and bent my schedule around being able to listen. :) It's a fairly gritty murder mystery but has so many twists and turns that you just have to keep going. The characters were intriguing and the plot so nicely complicated that as a reader, I kept second-guessing what I thought was really going on. Definitely recommended for crime novel lovers!
Unfortunately, the only characters I liked in this novel were not the ones you'd expect. And it dragged..... The narrator, R. C. Bray, was just.....ok.
Mysteries are made in part by what the author doesn't tell us. In The Big Exit, David Carnoy lays out the mystery right at the start like an invitation into the spider's web. And unwittingly, I enter. So, a husband, murdered at home, and discovered by his wife. Prosaic enough, but, of course, nothing is supposedly what it seems. As the narrative progresses, the author parcels out twists and revelations that keep me reading, taking precious fiction time from other books on the queue. This annoyed me, but I stuck with it, hoping for more.
The author uses a style of presentation that is based almost entirely on dialogue and one of Carnoy's strengths as a novelist is the construction of his characters' conversations. Some of the characters do seem a little too voluble, like when the detective telling his main suspect details of the investigation, and when the doctor who speaks of a patient's hospitalization in full HIPAA disregard. Nonetheless, with this technique, the narrative does zip along. With way too many characters, and some of them seeming very alike, it was confusing for me. The narrator made quite a nice effort to keep everyone straight, but it didn't help me much. I spent quite a lot of the novel saying....."Who..?" That's not cool. And having taken me, the reader, far along the story and committed to reading on to the very end, I thought the author owed me a big reveal. But I saw it coming way ahead of the story, and this may have spoiled the book for me.
There is promise in this sophomore effort. I would have given this 4 stars if the second half was as interesting or compelling, and tight as the first half. Maybe I'll take a look at Carnoy's first novel for comparison. MAYBE. For now, I give this 3 stars.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 296
- Popularité
- #79,168
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 14
- ISBN
- 34
- Langues
- 1
The premise of the book sounded interesting but it never really drew me in. The characters were just so-so and I didn’t grow to really like any. The tense situations seemed to resolve too easily. Overall it was only mildly interesting.… (plus d'informations)