
Back to Brooklyn
My Cousin Vinny Series, Book 1
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Lawrence Kelter
Gambini is back! Hot on the heels of rescuing his cousin Bill and Bill's friend, Stan, from an Alabama electric chair, our wildly inappropriate hero, Vincent Gambini, heads home to Brooklyn, where he attempts to establish a successful law career. Meanwhile, Lisa aches to have a wedding band placed around her finger, and her biological clock is still ticking away like mad. Vinny and Lisa have been together 10 long years. She's waited so very patiently for him to complete law school and pass the bar. Winning his first case was the last piece of the puzzle, and now nothing can stand in the way of true love, except that between them they don't have two nickels to rub together, and Vinny is about as romantic as a box of frogs.
In the course of building his practice, Vinny is reunited with Joe, his walking, talking embarrassment of a brother; Lisa's nudging parents, Ma and Augie; and his dear old friend Judge Henry Molloy, who refers him the mother of all capital murder cases. Theresa Cototi is young and pretty but far from innocent, and darn her luck...her boyfriend has just been scraped off the pavement after taking a header from eight stories up. You'd better believe she's going to trial, charged with murder one.
Aided by Lisa and a ragtag team of misfits, Vinny defends his client against overwhelming odds. Our endearing neophyte attorney must match wits with a cunning DA and a formidable influence peddler who appears to anticipate his every move. In the balance hangs the life of a woman he believes to be innocent. Or is she? Yes, Vinny may have finally won his first case, but his and Lisa's story is far from over. Am I sure? Yeah! I'm pos-i-tive!
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Instant classic!
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But after criticizing the dialects I really enjoyed the story and kept imagining if they made this into a movie it would of been a blast. I drive a lot and just loved listening to this and I think you will too. I’m going to start the next one now
A Fun Story
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Sadly, I must encourage you to actually read this one, rather than pick up the audio version. The team who performed the voices seemed to be trying so hard to nail the accents that their delivery was overly dramatic, deliberate and embarrassingly stilted. (Lisa's voice, for instance, reminded me of Janice from Friends, with her measured "Ohhh Myyyy Gawwwd") They weren't playing the parts as they read. Instead they were carefully pronouncing each word, as if they were seeing the pages for the first time.
Great story, but I suggest reading this one
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However, Kelter is doesn't really measure completely to the movie's original writer with Vinny coming off as too naive about the legal system on his home turf with goofs he really should have known better than to do after his Alabama case. In addition, the New York prosecutorial side comes off as laughably absurd with occasional legal moves that defy all common sense. The most glaring example is the ADA routinely requesting in arraignment court remand (a prisoner to be kept in jail until trial) for people indicted for misdemeanors when no rational prosecutor would incur such needless public expense for strictly minor criminals.
That said, there are laughs and tender moments aplenty while the plot builds to a spectacular courtroom showdown like the best of Perry Mason with a streetwise style.
A promising, if imperfect, start of a great series
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Funny Sequel Interesting Vocal Choices.
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Nobody fools a gambini!
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Not great
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Nasally
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The audiobook recording could use some better production and editing. Lots of audio artifacts, static, voices that sound like they were using bad microphones, etc. The narrators themselves were great, but the recording itself sounded amateurish as a result.
Funny book, poor recording quality
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