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Everybody Smokes in Hell [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

John Ridley
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1. August 2000
Hollywood nights are for people with name tags. Call them employees. Losers. Or call them Paris Scott. He microwaves hot dogs at a twenty-four-hour convenience store. His girlfriend just dumped him. And everyone is working his last nerve. Until a surprise encounter with a bum leads to a Bel Air mansion, a dead rock star's last gasp on tape, and a chance for Paris to flirt with a dream. Even if it is someone else's. It's worth his life. Even better, it's worth a million bucks.

From the snarling vastness of Los Angeles to the neon-lit inferno of Las Vegas, John Ridley charts a one-way ride into a glittering hell of blood, bodies, and broken hearts. Dope dealers, Hollywood agents, two-bit felons, three-dollar strippers, honest Joes, and an increasingly desperate Paris Scott--no one comes out clean in this raucous ride that turns an obsession with fame and fortune into a dangerous game of truth and consequence. It's a wild place where dying large is a must, every crime is a thrill, and the finest pleasures are the guilty ones.

Produktinformation

  • Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
  • Verlag: Ballantine Books (1. August 2000)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0345421477
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345421470
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 14,1 x 1,5 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.9 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (31 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.591.759 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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After a bad night at the 24-hour market in Hollywood where he works, Paris Scott finds the Filthy White Guy who just bought a ton of frozen burritos with a hundred-dollar bill (and then destroyed the store's microwave), slumped half-conscious on Scott's rusty 1976 AMC Gremlin. "Paris wasn't a particularly good person," writes John Ridley, "and that was by his own figuring. It's not like he hung around soup kitchens doling out freebies, or gave a damn when dykes were outside Mayfair Market in WeHo collecting money for the AIDS Walk, but he was one of those 'There but for the grace of God' guys; one of those guys that thought if you went out of your way to ignore someone else's bad shit then that same bad shit was liable to boomerang around and smack you in the head at some point." So Paris gives the Filthy White Guy a lift home, and it turns out he's a famous rock star, who repays the favor by calling Paris a loser before passing out. Paris gets even by stealing a tape of the singer's proposed comeback album, an action that might get him killed if the folks who are after the stolen dope that Scott's roommate Buddy took get to him.

Ridley, who writes gritty, critically praised thrillers about Hollywood types who have traded in their dreams of stardom for the reality of survival (Love Is a Racket and Stray Dogs), hates Los Angeles "more than cancer" (as he says in a disclaimer). In Everybody Smokes in Hell, he describes the city with more poetry, passion, and mordant humor than anyone since Nathanael West in Day of the Locust. If you can tolerate the occasional outbursts of racism, sexism, and other non-PC activities, it's a journey worth making. --Dick Adler -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

Pressestimmen

"Strong-as-firecrackers plot . . . Day-Glo dialogue . . . [A] seriously noir-ish, ultra-violent, ultra-high-speed, occasionally hilarious, dark farce of a novel."
--The Washington Post Book World

"In the bowels of Ridley's Los Angeles, honor is elusive though not unattainable, but the push of fate rules every man's existence: Noir is hell, to be sure."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"[A] relentless pace . . . Ridley seems to have a knack for capturing the comic-tragic, tragic-comic lessons of life that seem so prevalent in this half of the twentieth century."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"With his clipped, jagged prose and darkly imaginative plots, Ridley has proven himself as one of the new chroniclers of the rot that some find festering beneath the glistering veneer of Los Angeles."
--Publishers Weekly

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The way John Ridley writes is like an explosion of moving pictures, vivid and exciting, one take after the next. Everybody Smokes In Hell wasn't a short read, but the fast pace and wild ride make it a weekend read.
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5.0 von 5 Sternen THRILL RIDE 8. Februar 2000
Von "lqql"
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When I finished this book I felt the way you do when you get off a wild rollercoaster - like I'd been whipped around every which way and left with my head spinning. From page one the story gets cranking, stops only for some sly insight, then hits the gas again. This one is fun, fun, fun. If you can take some harsh stuff - and this writer holds nothing back - you'll love this book!
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5.0 von 5 Sternen I WANT MORE BRICE 2. Februar 2000
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Easily the most exciting character I've stumbled upon in years! In a book full of wild characters moving through an insanely funny story, Brice reigns supreme. Please, Please, Please, can we see Brice again? Soon!
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5.0 von 5 Sternen RAPID FIRE DELIGHT
I never thought I could be entertained, let alone find interest in scuzzy people leading scuzzy lives, but the characters in this book are so vivid, so twisted - AND FUNNY - you... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Februar 2000 von "lqql"
5.0 von 5 Sternen BLOODY AWESOME
Just wild. I don't know if the guy who wrote it was on drugs, or what, but this is one chainsaw of a book. Once it starts, IT DOES NOT LET UP. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Januar 2000 von "lqql"
1.0 von 5 Sternen LAZY WRITING
After a promising start, this book was pretty disappointing. I think he made it up as he went along. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
5.0 von 5 Sternen COULDN'T GET ENOUGH
This book was recommended to me by a friend. As I soon as I finished, I got Ridley's previous two novels. I couldn't get enough. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
5.0 von 5 Sternen OUTSTANDING
The term page-turner has become cliche, but it's certainly the only way to describe this book. It starts with a bang and travels like a bullet. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
1.0 von 5 Sternen It's not like I'm particularly picky...
This book irritated me greatly. Not only were the characters extremely underdeveloped and uninspiring, the writing literally made me cringe with a far greater frequency I can... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Januar 2000 von "fishea"
3.0 von 5 Sternen A fun, but imitative novel
It's not surprising to learn that Ridley has worked mostly in television and film. This book reads like it was adapted from a screenplay and is very cinematic in it's style. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Januar 2000 von Would'e
2.0 von 5 Sternen Everybody Just Smokes
This book serves as an interesting read and is well prosed, but Ridley flat out drops the ball with the plot. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Januar 2000 von amir m farhang
1.0 von 5 Sternen Good Writing -- Poor Story
The critics are correct; Ridley IS a talented writer with a gift for certain character styles. The sad thing about this book is that the wonderful writing is overshadowed by an... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Dezember 1999 von Allen Plummer
5.0 von 5 Sternen GREAT
What eles can I say? It's funny, it's shocking, it's fast paced. Everybody Smokes in Hell is just about the best book I've read this year. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. November 1999 veröffentlicht
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