The Books: Fiction and Non-Fiction.
The Fiction
The first book by Carr is Casing the Promised Land.
THIS IS A REALLY BAD BOOK DO NOT READ IT!!! It is about a set of brothers in New York in the seventies who apparently are total losers. That is all I could bring myself to read. I was laughing to hard at how bad it was. So if you do read it please tell me if Carr has them brutely murdered by Mafia thugs. Well the author himself said it was crappy so I guess you could call that a review. Otherwise I can find none.
The author and a few others' reviews.
This is the second book.
The Alienist is about a man who kills off boy prostitues. It is narrated by John Moore and I will describe him in detail so that way I do not give away too much of the book.
John Moore: A man who likes his wine, opera and a legendary restaurant Delmonico's. Moore works on and off at the New York Times and wrote the first novel (according to him). He has been estranged from his family for years except his grandmother because of the death of his brother when he was younger. He lived with her in the hopes of him becoming a better person, which did not happen. While not being too bright he does have a good heart and will do the nessary legwork under protest.
Here are the reviews I could find:
Review One
is of a different bent because of the subject. A women who kills her own children! That would never happen! Even after the horrible tradegy of Andrea Yates people still refuse to believe it is possible.
Stevie "Stevepipe" ?: Is the narrator of this book. (I forgot his last name) He is a former gang member (not the type of today mind) who when a guard at jail he was in tried to molest him beat up the guard and wound up working and living with the Good Doctor Kreizler. He likes his tobacco, likes a girl named Kat who like the Doctor's girlfriend dies, and eating at Delmonico's.
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Review two
Interview one
Interview two
Interview three
Excerpt one
Now I have actually read Killing Time. What a difficult book to read. The book is good enough for a long flight because then you would have the time to drag yourself through it. It is about these cowboy types who start screwing around with the past in a future that has at least TEN major disastors happen. They want the world to stop spending all of it's time on the internet because all they do is gather info without aquiring knowledge. One of the things that made me wonder about Carr's sanity was an epidemic that he has happen because doctors do not wash their hands. Hmmm...Like that would happen no matter how busy the damn hospital was. Hello Latex gloves!
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Interview one
Interview two
Interview three
Chat one
Chat two
Now for the Non Fiction:
The two first non fiction books are America Invunrable with James Chance and a biography of Frederick Townsend Ward. Both of these are boring to me because military history is boring. I have yet to finish them.
The newest book out is Lessons of Terror. This was written according to Newsweek (which I stole from my roomate because it has a delightful picture of Carr in it) after Sept. 11 and basically is "typical Carr."
This one has a web site that I just barely noticed: The Lessons of Terror. This has a massive eight line biography on Carr.
ON TO THE REVIEWS! What a surprise! ;)
Review one
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Review four
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