{"id":601,"date":"2013-02-25T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2013-02-25T08:13:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:13:36","slug":"hit-list-review-on-goodreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/hit-list-review-on-goodreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit List– review on Goodreads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hit<\/a>Hit List<\/a> by Lawrence Block<\/a><\/p>\n

My rating: 3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t much new here in Hit List<\/em>, as compared to Hit Man<\/em>. You can decide for yourself if that\u2019s a good thing or not. For me, if I like something, I\u2019ll probably like more of the same, so I don\u2019t need Hit List<\/em> to be more than, for all intents and purposes, just the second half of Hit Man<\/em>. My understanding is that, like the first book, this second is a collection of shorter works that were published independently, and so this is not a \u201cnovel\u201d in the strictest sense of the word. There\u2019s some character development, but of the \u201creveal\u201d variety, not the \u201cevolve\u201d variety. Keller is still killing people, or not, for reasons that are, if not strictly morally, at least not merely sociopathic. Keller does what he does. He\u2019s as bland as toast.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not satisfied with merely more of the same, well, at least in this book there\u2019s Keller\u2019s stamp collection. There\u2019s his ninety-nine mile distance from what was his previous one-hundred-mile existentialism. There\u2019s his toying with some new-age sensibilities, which are as perfunctory and inconsequential as any other thought he might have. Keller is dull, life is dull, death is extremely dull.<\/p>\n

And somehow, the book is not. Not really sure how else to say it. This is what happens when a comfortable, well-experienced master of words like Lawrence Block sits down to just do what he does. Not every book has to be pyrotechnics and deeply emotional. Most of existence isn\u2019t. If you need your novels to be written by men who eventually kill themselves, don\u2019t bother. But if you just want to read something for a while, where some folks get killed, go right ahead, read Hit List.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hit List by Lawrence Block My rating: 3 of 5 stars There isn\u2019t much new here in Hit List, as compared to Hit Man. You can decide for yourself if that\u2019s a good thing or not. For me, if I like something, I\u2019ll probably like more of the same, so I don\u2019t need Hit List … <\/p>\n

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