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Cargando... The Last One Leftpor John D. MacDonald
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Good book. Dense with many large paragraphs of JDM waxing philosophical and giving sometimes too much details on characters and character background. Al the pieces were there and they almost fit but there could have been a little more to some and a little less to others. not really much action either but it was a good look at 1960s Florida and the people who lived there. Definitely sexist and patronizing but its 1966. RK and Cisca even went to a Bond movie. You could sense Travis McGee around the corner or on the next dock down. ( ) Unbelievably slow book takes forever for the story to develop, while there is way too much character development. The is the first book by this author that was slow and boring, which was really surprising since everything else I have read was good. The author is known for heavy character development but in this case it was too much, for this reader. “One Left” is a chilling literary work describing the horrific abuses of “comfort women” in World War II. The protagonist, a fictional Korean survivor of seven years in Japanese military brothels, is now in her 90’s, living in present day South Korea. The structure of the novel takes the reader back and forth from the protagonist’s vivid memories of her captivity, to her current isolated life of fear that her past will be discovered. Throughout the novel, the atrocities are expressed through the voices of dozens of “comfort women” survivor testimonies, with extensive references to the primary sources. This important novel brings to attention the lesser known stories of a generation of marginalized Korean women and is a valuable contribution to Korean literature in translation. Great writer, extremely busy novel. So many well described characters, the movie plays in your head as you read along. The rich lawyer, reassesing his life,; the has-been blond, trying for one last big score; the rent-a-ships-captian, wondering how he got old; the wounded war veteran,;the love sick boy and more. Each a tale within the story. Amazing The antihero of this novel is someone the reader quickly comes to despise. Certainly McDonald's ability to display the trimmings of an age such as princess phones and 'transistorized' Japanese tape recorders is on display. Several clever plot twists and characterizations help make the story interesting. At some level the reader knows there will be a happy ending but it is fun to see the details McDonald uses to achieve that. Certainly the reader is brought back to the immediate post Castro and post bday of pigs era. The reader is reminded how much different the world seemed then. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:Murder at sea. No survivors, no evidence, no loose ends. Only a boatload of cash left for the taking. In this explosive novel from the author of the Travis McGee series, nothing is certainnot with enough money at stake to change a dozen lives . . . or end them. Introduction by Dean Koontz Crissy Harkinson knows all about the cash that left the Gold Coast of Florida, headed for the Bahamas on board a pleasure boat. It came from Texas, unrecorded, intended as a bribe. Now it is Crissys last chance for the big score shes been working toward for years, using her brains and her body. Then other people get involved, including a Texas lawyer too cool to commit himself to anything or anybody, a beautiful Cuban maid who might not be as silly as she seems, and a pitifully broken girl, adrift and unconscious in a tiny boat on the giant blue river of the Gulf Stream. Turns out these are shark-infested waters. And none of them are going down without a fight. Praise for John D. MacDonald and The Last One Left As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.Dean Koontz A stunning adventure.Chicago Tribune John D. MacDonald created a staggering quantity of wonderful books, each rich with characterization, suspense, and an almost intoxicating sense of place.Jonathan Kellerman. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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