- Taschenbuch: 240 Seiten
- Verlag: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Auflage: Reprint (8. Juli 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0812968212
- ISBN-13: 978-0812968217
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,1 x 1,3 x 20,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 61.562 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Roy and Frankie are con artists, swindling money from whomever they can. Roy likes to keep everything routine and safe, partly due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder. Frankie is always looking for the big, risky score because no matter how much money he makes, he blows it on fancy cars, fancy clothes, and fancy women. Roy's life is complicated. He sees a psychiatrist to help him fight his OCD and discovers that he has a 15-year-old daughter, Angela. Frankie is none too happy because this new relationship interferes with their moneymaking schemes, especially when Roy begins teaching Angela the tricks of the trade. Although some of Frankie and Roy's scams are a bit unbelievable, Garcia creates a tense and tragic comedy that will have you cheering on the criminals even when they're bilking the naive. Ryan brown
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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On the basis of his first two novels, Casual Rex and Anonymous Rex, Garcia established himself as a cult favorite. For his third outing, he sheds the dinosaur trappings to deliver a straightforward variation on The Sting that combines elements of The Odd Couple and Paper Moon to create what could be his breakout book. Matchstick men are con artists, represented here by Roy and Frankie, two masters of "the game." With the easy facility of a veteran vaudeville team, they hone their various routines, making sure to keep their private lives separate. Roy is the obsessive one of the pair, forever swallowing pills to stabilize his disorders, zoning in on the dirt that lurks in the carpet, and squirreling away his share of the team's take. Frankie scatters his money freely and is constantly on the prowl for more of everything. When Roy discovers that he is the father of a 14-year-old daughter who is interested in the family business, it just might be the wedge that drives the team apart. By the time the final con is played, we recognize that we're in the hands of yet another master of "the game." The film adaptation starring Nicholas Cage and directed by Ridley Scott, scheduled for release next summer, should serve to hype what is already a winner. For all public libraries.
Bob Lunn, Kansas City P.L., MO
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
Bob Lunn, Kansas City P.L., MO
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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A petty crime gem
14. Februar 2003
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Roy and Frankie are partners in con, ripping off everyone who crosses their paths from college kids to home making women to greedy men. But Roy is also suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Frankie hooks him up with psychiatrist Dr. Klein so he can get the pills he needs. Dr. Klein in turn hooks Roy up with a daughter he never knew he had. Angela, fourteen, is eager to have a dad and wants to learn all about his job. Pretty soon she's helping. Pretty soon Roy wants to give up all his tricks in order to gain custody of her, but Frankie convinces him they should play the con game one more time ... just one more time.
MATCHSTICK MEN is one of the best books I have read this spring. It is fast, full of twists and cons, cleanly and cleverly plotted, and peopled with characters who, while not brilliant, are sturdy enough to hold up their ends of the book. Angela especially will keep you reading. For me, the ending was a complete surprise and it left me thinking the whole book through again from a different angle. I found it a resounding and fitting wrapup for a book of cons, hinted at but unexpected.
If you like fast, absorbing, perfectly plotted little books of petty crime with a twist, MATCHSTICK MEN is a treasure I couldn't recommend more highly.
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Don't Play Cards With These Guys. Ever
20. Januar 2003
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Author Eric Garcia has written two previous books in which hard-boiled private eye Vincent Rubio is actually a dinosaur in disguise. No dinosaurs in his latest masterpiece but two sleazy con artists who are very good at taking money from others by all kinds of clever scams. Roy and Frankie are very good at what they do, in spite of Roy's obsessive compulsive disorder and hypochondriasis. The book becomes really interesting when Roy's long lost daughter from a failed marriage turns up and begins to change his life.
What will happen next? The plot takes a number of surprising twists and turns and carries you along, unable to put the book down, until the surprise ending that blew me away. While some of the reviewers found the ending obvious, I must be a good "mark" because I fell for it completely.
This book is not for everyone. It is not uplifting or redeeming. It is about some very bad people doing very bad things, but it is extremely well-written, fast-moving, entertaining and engaging. It has a lot of interesting information about scams and flimflams. Sometimes it is funny. But nothing like dinosaurs. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.
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Be careful of whom you trust
20. Februar 2003
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Eric Garcia's series about a dinosaur detective, ANOMYMOUS REX & CASUAL REX, are totally different from his MATCHSTICK MEN, except for the fact they are all humorous. Roy & Frankie have been partners as con artists (matchstick men) for years. They are at opposite ends of the pole. Roy saves his money, planning for his retirement, (He doesn't trust banks; he keeps his money in a horse in his living room.) takes his medication regularly for his obsessive-compulsive disorder, & is very careful, except evidently during his brief marriage years ago. He finds out he has a teenage daughter who now wants to come stay with him & learn the trade. Frankie is just the opposite; he is willing to take chances. He wants to make a big score so he can get some money. They usually do their business in places, like restaurants, etc, on a small scale. Frankie isn't thrilled about having Roy's daughter sit in on some action, in fact he is downright opposed to it. But when a girl makes up her mind, what is a father to do? The big question here is can a con man be conned?
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