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Very good alternative history starring Clark Gable as a down at heel private eye after his Hollywood career crashed when "feelies" pushed out the talkies. Heavily influenced by Philip K. Dick.
Set in an alternative Hollywood in the early days of WWII a failed movie star turnded seedy PI called Clarke Gable gets mixed up in plot to use recently invented tech that projects feelings as well as images at people in movie theatres to impel a local fascist businessman into the White House. Neither strands of the story came together for me - the "feelies" or the fascism - and the name-dropping of people who are movie actors in our reality but are not in this one was just irritating.
A creepy noir set in 1940 Los Angeles, with a crucial difference. A technology to project feelings leaves 'the industry' and the star struck populace ready to follow their worst inclinations at a crucial point in history. For all that, and a good plot, the mood wasn't moody for me, the grit too easy too wash off and ignore, the prltagonist too ambivolent. Like the man said at the end of Buckaroo Banzai "Great hero. Big deal."
Bardzo ciężko mi się czyta Macleoda. Tą książke czytałem pare miesięcy. Jest gruba i ... autor ma bardzo rozległe opisy. Jego opowiadania można przypisać prawie, że do roli powieści. Co by tu nie mówić jednak zapadają w pamięć. Może drugi raz je warto przeczytać? Jednak czytanie tego to była dla mnie męczarnia. Chciałem jak najszybciej skończyć. W międzyczasie przeczytałem chyba z 5 książek ;) Wiem, że niektórzy uwielbiają Macleoda. Ja nie za bardzo. Co do powieści "Obudź się i śnij" już jest ci...
This fun detective thriller is set in an alternate history about Hollywood in the late 1930s. The final climax was a bit of a "deus ex machina" and the epilogue dragged a bit, but otherwise it was quite inventive.
Excellent! Deserves a publisher in the US.
The career of has-been actor, Clark Gable, didn’t make the jump from the talkies to the “feelies.” Now he’s a two bit private eye specializing in matrimonial cases, sniffing pillow cases and peering under beds. But a fresh case drags Clark back into acting and to the dark side of the technology underlying the feelies, the mysterious Bechmeir Field.While the average citizen craves to escape in the dream of the feelies, Clark’s skin crawls whenever he's in the cinema. And the technology may have o...
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I'm a big Macleod fan and this book is probably the best thing I read this year. So many of my favorite things come together here, LA and film history, Howard Hughes, noir, alternate history (in a way continuing what was started in Summer Isles). Fantasy and science in hard boiled detective story. Macleod has been publishing his books himself for a while and it means his books are not available on Kindle. They are more expensive, yes, but at the same time I am happy about this, because now I can...
Weird alt-history.
Five word review: Sam Spade by David Lynch
I have enjoyed MacLeod's work, and I always enjoy an alternate history story. The premise for this one was interesting, and I think he did an excellent job of capturing the tone and tenor of the era he created.The hallmark of a good author is that the reader gets lost in that world that is created, and for most of the read this was the case. I marked this attempt down due to the implausible use of UK English in both the narrative and the dialogue. It is so out of place it jars me back to the wor...
What can I say? i am a sucker for alternate histories and this one is quirky and just that bit different.
What The H--- Is Going On?I'm sorry, I'm probably the only one who couldn't STAND this book!!! What a waste of time and energy. I don't know if it's because I'm an old black and white movie buff or what? I read the whole book hopefully thinking it had to get better but it was the same trash over and over again, and to add Gable's name to it as a fluke or fun I guess stunk! (It didn't even sound like him.)
