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That was awesome!

Revisado: 02-09-22

Five stars plus five more! The Lincoln Highway is a wild ride through about nine dimensions of nostalgia! It does childhood and coming of age, it does the lost americas of farming, railroads, and highways, and it does an outrageous portrait of NYC looking mid century worse for wear. There's even a brilliant character named (I wouldn't kid you about this) "Ma Bell".

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Old school suspense

Revisado: 10-01-21

I don't usually have the patience for older novels. If they can't clear up a misunderstanding with a text or a Google search then it just seems primitive and frustrating. But this was interesting!
I never read a Highsmith novel before. This one had some great classic elements that reminded me of Crime and Punishment. Bruno is a villain of legendary proportions. Guy is caught in an insane situation only partly of his own making. Psychopathy mixed up with destiny.
Great nostalgia here for anybody who remembers the days when chain smoking and serious alcohol abuse were features of everyday life in America.

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Why do I do this to myself?

Revisado: 07-09-20

I know it's not going to be anything like Millennium trilogy... Oh, did anybody wonder why he called it a trilogy?

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Eye roll

Revisado: 02-17-18

I think I will need ocular therapy from all the eye rolling. I don't know what was worst, the flat unbelievable one dimensional characters, the story line that goes NOWHERE, the cultural stereotypes that border on racism, the corny tough guy dialogue that falls flat, or the generally low quality of the writing.
The narrator was not specially inspiring no. But nobody could improve that horrible material.

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He got the pronunciation of Harry's name wrong

Revisado: 05-29-17

It's pronounced 'hoola' (sort of). Saying hole is unfortunate, can't help but think hairy (gross). Also, Nesbø has got into a rut, and is using some tired devices over and over.

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The music is a distraction and the sound is bad

Revisado: 03-01-17

...but it is a whimsical story and fun. King does a fine job reading, but the performance is severely marred by the sound quality and the silly unnecessary music.

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This was a huge disappointment.

Revisado: 06-16-16

The plot holes were big enough to drive a truck through. The Reacher character is supposed to be cool and tough, as well as cultured and interesting. None of that works. He is a jackass, makes stupid mistakes, and is the least charming protagonist i have read about. But of course he gets the girl. She throws herself at him for no apparent reason, and without any realistic motivation. He becomes the hero of his story through a sociopathic manipulation of people and events so unrealistic that this reader could only groan in disgust. Awful book. I'll not be wasting my time on more of these.

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Nice characters in a thin story.

Revisado: 04-21-13

This was only OK. The characters were good, but the story, while it's premise was essentially good, had huge, bothersome holes.

The performance was the best part, and maybe was the only thing that stopped me from turning off half way through.

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Harry Hole is a superhero of a detective!

Revisado: 04-18-13

Harry Hole's trip through the underworld of Oslo keeps getting better and better. Jo Nesbo writes brilliantly and gets the characters from society's lowest losers to the apparent winners (both good and very, very bad!) just right. Harry Hole is both loser and winner, a deeply tragic lost soul and a hero of almost supernatural dimensions. Read them all!

The only hole (sorry) I found in the story was this: the story takes place in the summer and fall of 2011 and makes no (save one very vague, possible) reference to the Utøye/Oslo terror of July 22nd of that year. These events deeply impacted the lives of everyone in Norway, and specially Oslo at that time. But to be fair to Nesbo, had he gone down that road and opened up that subject as part of the novel, it would have become a tangent to the main story that would be necessary to elaborate at length. I can understand that he kept his distance, but a couple of more references to broken glass and roses, the images that defined Oslo at the time, would have been realistic and set my mind at ease.

The reading was good. The vocal characterizations and accents of the different characters with their diverse backgrounds was impressive. There were a couple of norwegian pronounciations that could have been better. Harry's name and the ridiculous pun it contains, doesn't really work in translation. The pun is, of course, english, but the norwegian pronounciation doesn't bring it immediately to mind.

I repeat, read them all.

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