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Laddar... Nothing More Dangerousav Allen Eskens
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A master storyteller, Allen Eskens ranks high with other crime and suspense authors. Rather than muck up a story with tons of irrelevant details, he paints a picture of racism in Missouri with a dash of coming of age and detective work by a the central character, Boady. As the tale unravels, momentum builds and with it illumination of details. Characters are well developed but not overdone, pacing is perfect and the climax fitting. I plan to read others by this author, rest assured! Allen Eskens is just amazing! I put this one off a while because I read that it was a YA title, but I never would have thought that if I didn't read it. It's probably good for young adults, though, but that doesn't mean old adults like me won't like it. It was another amazing book by a great author. This is one of those books that manages to be both incredibly sad and incredibly uplifting all at the same time. It's a real roller coaster, with anger and admiration mixed in. It moves along a bit slowly, but you can feel the tension building up in the background, and you just know things are going to explode at some point. I'm glad I was listening to the audiobook (narrated by Kevin Stillwell, who did an excellent job), or I would have had to stop reading due to blurry type in some places. I believe the title comes from a quote from MLK, from "Strength to Love" (1963), where he said: "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” My only complaint is that I've now read all but one of his books. I have the latest on reserve at my library, and look forward to the day my number comes up. 5 big stars Both Diane who blogs at Bibliophile by the Sea and Cathy at Kittling: Books recommended this book. In fact, Cathy gave it an A+ rating. Diane said that it was "a haunting coming-of-age book" and had "great character development, a little mystery and great writing." In this, we are agreed. The story is set in the 1970s in small-town Missouri Ozarks. It revolves around race relations but encompasses so much more: the aforementioned coming-of-age, bullying, and the many different kinds of sacrifices people make in life because of love. It's a brilliant tale, and writing this review has reminded me that I need to seek out other titles by Eskens. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing in on him, suffocating him. Then Thomas Elgin moves in across the road, and Boady's life begins to twist and turn. Coming to know the Elgins-a black family settling into a community where notions of "us" and "them" carry the weight of history-forces Boady to rethink his understanding of the world he's taken for granted. Secrets hidden in plain sight begin to unfold: the mother who wraps herself in the loss of her husband, the neighbor who carries the wounds of a mysterious past that he holds close, the quiet boss who is fighting his own hidden battle. But the biggest secret of all is the disappearance of Lida Poe, the African-American woman who keeps the books at the local plastics factory. Word has it that Ms. Poe left town, along with a hundred thousand dollars of company money. Although Boady has never met the missing woman, he discovers that the threads of her life are woven into the deepest fabric of his world. As the mystery of her fate plays out, Boady begins to see the stark lines of race and class that both bind and divide this small town, and he is forced to choose sides. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The author notes at the beginning of the book he started it in 1991 and it has just hung around.
I am pretty sure the race problems that we have had the last few years, were the only reason this book was dusted off and published but it is a weak story from such a great author. ( )