
Hope to Die
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Narrated by:
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George Guidall
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By:
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Lawrence Block
The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole - one apparently slain by his partner in crime, who then took his own life.
There's something drawing Matthew Scudder to this case that the cops have quickly and eagerly closed: a nagging suspicion that a third man is involved, a cold, diabolical puppet master who manipulates his two accomplices then cuts their strings when he's done with them. No one but Scudder even suspects he exists. And his worst fear is that the guy is just getting started....
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A truly fine book
Block's prose is as smooth as aged whiskey...
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Matt Scudder = always a good read!
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good narration for a change
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Block is my favorite author, and the Scudder series some of his best work, but this one is just... bad. There are no real surprises about Scudder and how he operates, the problem comes from the (very odd) decision to write some of the book from the killer's point of view. It's clunky and just does not work.
Guidall is a great narrator, but not for this series. The issue isn't his narration, exactly, it's that the rest of the series has been done by 2 other narrators and its hard to feel the same when someone else is doing it. It's especially apparent when he reads in TJ's or Mick's voice... they feel like impostors rather than the characters we love.
I guess if you were just listening to this as a 1-shot, the shortfalls wouldn't be so noticeable. But if you are working your way through the Scudder series, this book sticks out like a square peg in a round hole
Feel Free to skip this one
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Stick to what you're good at.
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