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Destroying Angel

The Carlucci Series, Book 1

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Destroying Angel

By: Richard Paul Russo
Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
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This electrifying cyber shock thriller by a Philip K. Dick Award - winning author takes listeners on a terrifying ride through the gritty, neon-lit streets of a future San Francisco.

In the mid twenty-first century San Francisco, a group of corpses is found chained together on the bottom of the bay. Retired police officer Louis Tanner must find the killer among a city full of serial murderers, cyborgs, and street-wise kids. This first book in the Carlucci series introduces famed police lieutenant Frank Carlucci.

©1992 Richard Paul Russo (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fantasy Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense San Francisco Exciting Fantasy Detective

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The story is not bad. The narration is excellent. I heard this was a good cyberpunk/ noir series but, frankly, I just don’t love it.

Pretty good. Not bad.

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A somewhat generic noir detective story that doesn’t lean too heavily on it’s cyberpunk setting. The narrator is fantastic.

Good Noir Story

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This story is very convoluted and sometimes hard to follow. Otherwise well done but just frustrating at end.
Lately it seems I do not get denouement , you need to read the whole;often tedious series. rather than a frustrating end and NEW beginning
From now on if I cant download from my local library' and feel like each book is worth owning I won't buy it on here but I will if each book speaks for its self or just leaves a good move to the next in series.
Reading the beginning and end chapters is not fulfilling.but! Reading the the text of a series is a lot better way to decide what is worth a credit.

PAINFUL ENDING.

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Do you want a kind of detective-y novel? This is it. A bit futuristic, a bit sci-fi? Yep, but aside from a few things it's a touch subtle. A little bit dystopian, but not in such a way that it becomes a major plot element. Oh and it doesn't cast Them as a main villain, that's a whole other novel. Quite enough of that lately in real life for me to want a bit more in a novel, so I'm glad of that. How about a quirky female lead character opposite the detective straight man? I'll ruin it for you--they don't bang. Which I personally liked, it's a nice change. Unexpected twist? Surprised me. A killer who's more devious than most? The devious-est. Could have been a better final stand-off, they definitely built the villain up, but I liked it without the Big Finale. Plus it could be a recurring antagonist, that would make sense.

It was simple in ways I liked. It didn't rely on a pre-existing conception of Cyberpunk or Steampunk or Dystopia, it didn't force a new social order setting. It instead built upon what exists, skewed it towards a bit more lawlessness, explored class differences and made the division stark, which seems to be the inevitability of most societies, like it or not. The description of The Tenderloin was just great, I loved that. The kind of thing you like to see in a good sketchy urban futurescape. It reminded me of Lexington Market in Baltimore: restaurants, places to sit and eat, meet up with people, sell goods and services, and in a way a physical manifestation of The Black Market, with people selling all kinds of drugs, from crack to heroin to dirt weed...I've seen someone selling antibiotics, and another Viagra--far more brazenly than normal. Like that, but San Francisco, the whole Tenderloin District, and in the gritty Future. I loved the descriptions of how people build upon existing structures, literally and socially, to deal with the problems of commerce, housing, entertainment, fashion. crime.

It's not an Endearing Classic, it won't be celebrated with the greats of poetry or prose, but it scratches a particular kind of itch really, really well. If you liked Altered Carbon but could do without a lot of the fighting and shooting, if you enjoyed Neuromancer but thought it could use a pulp fiction detective and do without the hot bodyguard, if you didn't get enough of YT from Snow Crash, this may be for you. I liked it.

Everything I Wanted Plus A Little

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The story itself is pretty mediocre. Plenty of clichés and noir stereotypes endemic to the cyberpunk genre. The story unfolded in a spectacularly predictable fashion and is otherwise unremarkable in its structure and characters.

The narrator was exceptional. effective changing of voices to fit characters and added drama to an otherwise flat story. That being said, the voice did feel strangely out of place for a cyberpunk story - more elegant and formal than you might expect. I would certainly be interested in listening to his voice in a high fantasy lord of the rings style narration.

Okay story with an over qualified narrator

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Add the narration to that title - and it's a NOPE.

There was too much time spent in character's thoughts and not enough action.

The plotline just...plodded along to me.

I can't recommend this one....and it's free - part of the Plus Catalog.

Slow, dragging and repetitive

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Gee the though guy voices sounded fake and so stereotypical all you could do was find the end quickly!!!!!!

Poor poor poor

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This semi-cyberpunk novel just didn't quite do I for me. The world isn't elaborated on enough to the point we're I can really visualize it. The main character Tanner lacks personality and leaves me disinterested. This has nothing to do with the book but the narrators voice sounds dull and lacks the enthusiasm I'm used to when listening instead of reading. It is hard to listen to for long periods of time. Otherwise and interesting plot.

Good plot. Doesn't deliver.

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Seemed like a typical PI story. PI wanders around lost gets beat up at least once, although in this story he beats himself up to avoid something worse, the answer man finds him and hands him the solution. Find villain relatively quickly and even though he takes huge amounts of illegal drugs is subdued with a couple of tranquilizer shots, in his arm because only one arm and brain are still human. This super strong cyborg, no fight, no chase. Makes ending very rushed. Didn’t want to give away too much but there is no happy ending here, only disappointment of what could have been.

Freshman effort

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