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What Smiled at Him (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Colin Dodds (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
2,8 2,8 su 5 stelle 85 voti
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“Characters speak like prophets,” (Kirkus) in this early 21st century road trip, murder mystery and love triangle. “Watching them ignore their better instincts—especially concerning women… makes the characters more endearing…” One night far from home, childhood friends Lynn and Marv reunite with Caroline, the beautiful and mercurial object of their desires.

When Caroline is arrested for the murder of her husband and child, Marv and Lynn find themselves entangled in a mystery. The question that pursues the two friends through their searches for love, stabs at success and self-destructive lapses is: Will they bother to solve it?

Praise for What Smiled at Him “The novel has an angry edge to it, recalling the spirit of the Beats. Many of the peripheral characters speak like prophets… Marv and Lynn are just as self-aware as their supporting cast, and their abundance of wisdom sometimes stretches believability; it’s tempered, however, by the flaw of their continually self-destructive behavior. Watching them ignore their better instincts… makes the characters more endearing.” -Kirkus Reviews “‘What Smiled at Him’ manages to be somber, colorful, and often guffaw-out-loud funny. It reads fast but is loaded with trenchant observations on modern relationships, growing up, and happiness that will give the reader pause.” -Kevin Kosar, author of Whiskey: A Global History
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  1. Lunghezza stampa
    283 pagine
  2. Lingua
    Inglese
  3. Memo
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  4. Data di pubblicazione
    17 dicembre 2013
  5. Dimensioni file
    415 KB
  6. Scorri Pagina
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  7. Word Wise
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Colin Dodds grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education in New York City. He’s the author of several novels, including The Last Bad Job, which the late Norman Mailer touted as showing “something that very few writers have; a species of inner talent that owes very little to other people.” Dodds’ screenplay, Refreshment – A Tragedy, was named a semi-finalist in 2010 American Zoetrope Contest. His poetry has appeared in more than ninety publications, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Samantha.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00805NERS
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 415 KB
  • Utilizzo simultaneo di dispositivi ‏ : ‎ illimitato
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
  • Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 283 pagine
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
    2,8 2,8 su 5 stelle 85 voti

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G. Henson
1,0 su 5 stelle Worst book ever
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 20 luglio 2014
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This is easily the worst book I have ever read. I wished so many times that I hadn't started it. I came very close to not finishing it on many occassions, but couldn't make myself break my own rule—I didn't want it to any reason to remember it. The characters were extremely unlikeable and boring. They didn't even like themselves or their friends. Please don't read this book
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Julia
3,0 su 5 stelle Good writer but fell flat - forgettable.
Recensito in Canada il 22 giugno 2014
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I read Last Bad Job, & Broken Wizard before What Smiled at Him. A binge you might say. Encouraged by the first half of Bad Job before it took another voice & style to the writing, from really great humour to a strange Sci Fi/Apocalypse humourless derailment. Aliens kidnapped the writer I think, I hardly recognized any continuity.

Broken Wizard, again good writing but no sense of the writer, not the comedic guy, nor Sci Fi, but a homecoming, dense detail on places, people, things, like a daily calendar, which, if humourous doesn't much matter about hitting hard on a storyline, this wasn't & the ending was - well, it just ended w/o enough impact to quantify the haul.

What Smiled at Him, now my third book left me wondering, does Dodds know who he is as a writer? Fortunately, the cover is misleading - no woman w handcuffs. I guess it was meant figuratively. However, one is lead to believe this is yet another genre for Dodds. Murder & suspense. Cat & mouse. It flips back & forth between two male friends, now both 29, running into a highschool girlfriend that both were involved with - one had stolen from the other - they'd duked it out, didn't talk for a couple yrs, but hey, male bonding prevails over a just a girl, & funny thing, 15 yrs later the 3 reconnect. She's now married, very wealthy but disgruntled -no, make that hostile! Against her gay husband (she thinks) & horrible baby. Best line ? She knows her kid hates her "he didn't cry, he was born seething" . Just as well.

Again, the chapters alternate with Marv & Lyn , the 2 buddies. Carolyn doesn't get any chapters, she speaks when eating or in bed or both in their chapters. So, the info related to the murder is only relayed 3rd party, & very little at that. As w Broken Wizard, we spend a lot of the book going thru each guy's workday, -a lot of time in bars, relationships that come & go, 'stuff' that reveals one is a sales guy, the other a small time musician. What about this murder, who dun it? A question I asked repeatedly to no one. And will we ever know IF? I won't ruin it, but gawd I wish someone wud explain the last two pages to me! I thought the aliens seized the ending! Imo, while the writer has talent, (dialogue, characters) I didn't feel the mission, in how it was set up, delivered.
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gnrchick8
2,0 su 5 stelle A little depressing
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 19 gennaio 2014
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I found this book a bit depressing and a bit of a non starter. I spent the whole book waiting for something to happen but it never quite did. Not a terrible read but not a great one either.
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Sheri A. Wilkinson
3,0 su 5 stelle What Smiled at Him
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 26 febbraio 2014
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What Smiled at Him by Colin Dodds

This is the story of two childhood friends Lynn and Marv. They are in their late twenties and trying to figure out where their life is going. They reconnect with a high school friend Caroline. She is married to a wealthy man, but starts an affair with Marv. Then things turn ugly. Caroline is accused of murdering her husband and son.

The story is fast paced, and gets confusing. To me it jumped around a bit and was easy to lose track of who was talking and what was going on. But the story line itself was interesting and I needed to know how it ended. The description did not really fit the story, but it did hold enough intrigue (to me) so I was able to finish.
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twohuskies
2,0 su 5 stelle A strange story to nowhere
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 12 dicembre 2013
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Very odd book that took quite some time to get me engaged. I kept expecting it to actually go somewhere, but about a third of the way in, I finally was interested enough to see it through to the end. I truly wish it would have ended with Marv and Caroline's brunch; the mini-chapter that followed and was, actually, the end was so bizarre, it pretty much ruined the book for me. Oh well - I think I got it cheap or free for kindle, so I'm glad I didn't spend much money on it.
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