- Taschenbuch: 520 Seiten
- Verlag: Coronet Books (3. Januar 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0340771224
- ISBN-13: 978-0340771228
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,4 x 11 x 3,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 212.607 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Spider-bites are a nasty way to die, and there is a man out there with an unusual taste for insect venom of all kinds and for the deaths of those who disagree with or affront him. John Connolly's sleuth Charlie Parker is free of the ghosts of his slaughtered wife and child, but sooner or later new ghosts come to him demanding silently that he avenge them. In The Killing Kind, it is not Grace, the ex-girlfriend whose faked suicide he is hired to investigate, so much as the dead fanatics she was killed for writing a thesis on. The Aroostook Baptists disappeared into the gloomy woods of North Maine in the sixties and nothing more is known until road workers find a mass burial. Connolly provides his usual excellent combination of snappy one-liners (many of them from Parker's gay assassin sidekicks Angel and Louis) together with scenes of the utmost terror. Parker soon realises that the spider killer, Elmer Pudd, is only the tool of someone far worse, a sanctimonious artist in intolerance and mayhem--and it is only by carefully measured doses that we come to realise just how bad that is going to be. --Roz Kaveney
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In this third entry in the Charlie "Bird" Parker detective series, Connolly's ex-cop hero reluctantly agrees to look into the alleged suicide of a graduate student who was investigating a group of religious extremists who vanished four decades ago. Did young Grace Peltier really kill herself, or was a new band of zealots responsible? And can Charlie solve the mystery while keeping the wonderfully named Elias Pudd, the cult's frightening strong-arm man, at bay? Connolly, who lives in Dublin, Ireland, portrays the U.S. as seen by someone viewing it from a distance, a slightly off-kilter, frame-shifted America. The author's writing style is vaguely European, with turns of phrase and dialogue nuances that will be immediately familiar to readers of, say, British mysteries; these, too, give the book a rather unsettling feeling, as though something's not quite right. This skewed perspective, surprisingly, works entirely to the novel's advantage, turning a somewhat familiar story (private eye hunts killers while killers hunt private eye) into something new and exciting. David Pitt
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After EVERY DEAD THING it was hard to go on. John Connolly did it with DARK HOLLOW, a middleclass-thriller with little tension, an easy-see-through plot and no surprises. Really depressing. Now he turned back to the style from his first novel and created with Elias Pudd a character equal to the Traveling Man. The plot is better, the thinking cleverer. Connolly is still faithfull to his theme of dying and guilt, and he packed it in a new kind of storytelling - changing viewpoints, giving the story room to breathe and getting wiser with the telling, keeping the pace.
I hope Connolly will go on in this (his special) style. I really like the anger in his novels, the characters change subtle, but they change and learn.
THE KILLING KIND is superb story-telling, a lot of tension and many twists that make you forget to blink. I really liked it.
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Dies ist ein Ritt durch die finstersten Elemente des religiösen Fundamentalismus in den USA und die Geschichte dieses Fundamentalismus im 20. Jahrhundert in seinen verschiedenen Ausprägung. Gleichzeitig lernt man Einiges über Insektenkunde und über Arachnälogie. Aber selbst für den absoluten Laien in diesen Fachgebieten sind diese teils sehr lehrbuchhaften Passagen des Romans sicherlich nicht ganz uninteressant. Leute mit Arachnäphobie sollten dieses Buch allerdings tatsächlich meiden, wenn sie in nächster Zeit auf ausreichend Schlaf angewiesen sind.
Die Geschichte ist nicht unbedingt originell aber doch interessant genug um bestimmte Wiederholungen von Ausschnitten von Romanen über religiösen Fanatismus in der USA zu akzeptieren. Die Sprache ist angenehm und auch farbenfroh, was das Vergnügen noch steigert und die Figuren sind sehr plastisch gezeichnet, wenn sie allerdings auch teilweise nur extrem kurze Halbwertzeiten haben. Nette Ferienlektüre.
Die Geschichte ist nicht unbedingt originell aber doch interessant genug um bestimmte Wiederholungen von Ausschnitten von Romanen über religiösen Fanatismus in der USA zu akzeptieren. Die Sprache ist angenehm und auch farbenfroh, was das Vergnügen noch steigert und die Figuren sind sehr plastisch gezeichnet, wenn sie allerdings auch teilweise nur extrem kurze Halbwertzeiten haben. Nette Ferienlektüre.
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Another 5 Star From A Gifted Writer
12. Oktober 2002
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John Connolly is one fine writer: not only are plot and characters exceptionally well done, but his prose style is close to poetic. I re-read sections simply because the style was so grand. And he improves with each book. His protagonist in all three books is Charlie Parker, an ex-cop who left the force when his wife and child were brutally murdered in Connolly's first book, "Every Dead Thing". Characters introduced in this book follow through all three, so while "The Killing Kind" can be read on its own, many of the references to Parker's past can be better understood by a reading of the previous books. Which ain't all bad, folks, because, as I've said, this is one fine writer. Here, Parker is investigating the death of a young woman who was conducting research into a religious cult. No plot giveaways from your friendly reviewer, but be advised that the bad guy, "Mr. Pudd" is REALLY scary, and the uncertainty of the outcome persists to the very last page. I cannot recommend this book too much or praise Connolly's skills too highly. It's a "great read". And for fans, be advised that the fourth Parker novel, "The White Road", is available now from Amazon.com.uk. Trust me on this one, guys; enjoyment is guaranteed.
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Less gunfire, more terrifying anyway
20. Februar 2004
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The first two Charlier Parker novels, by Irish journalist John Connolly, were violent and very disturbing, pocked with gunfire and dead bodies, and visions of horrors from the afterlife. Parker himself is a strange, tortured soul, who can see those who have been killed violently, so that he can't ignore them and return to his quiet life. This third Parker book is even nastier in some ways: the author has managed to make things even more sinister by making the violence more dramatic, more creepy, more hidden.
In this installment, Parker's relegated himself to watching wayward husbands and doing boring industrial security work. He imagines that his presence somehow makes violent people worse, or perhaps brings them out of the woodwork. He's patched up his relationship with Rachel and made peace with the world, and now is trying to make ends meet without killing anyone. This reverie is disturbed by Jack Mercier, a retired senator who is wealthy and wishes to hire Parker to investigate a murder. Initially reluctant, Parker becomes engrossed in the case and those who quickly become suspects, largely a strange, reclusive cult of religious fanatics called The Fellowship. They appear outrageous and silly, not particularly dangerous if repugnant in their beliefs (which range from anti-abortion to anti-semitism) and somewhat nuts. Parker suspects something deeper, and soon discovers that he's right.
The book travels from there, with a plethora of wonderful characters, from a mob boss to a very different porn producer to a Jewish assassin with no face to a bad guy with a strange fascination for spiders. All are drawn interestingly, with wonderful dialog and mannerisms, and prose that makes you think this might even be poetry.
I enjoyed the first two Charlier Parker novels a great deal. This third one isn't anywhere near as violent and bloody as the first two, but given the haunting images that the author paints as he writes his books, the shootouts aren't really needed. Instead, the murky atmosphere almost makes this into a Clive Barker novel, without the supernatural nasties. Instead, your skin crawls from spiders and strange characters who've been killing for decades. For me that's more affecting, not less.
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A new hope!
6. Februar 2003
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I have a confession to make. I am a murderer. I killed my love for the detctive story by reading too many novels that were just too bad. I never thought I'd appreciate a crime novelist the way I did Ed McBain when I was younger. And then along came John Connolly, creeping up on me, hiding in the shadows, lurking, and then attacking without warning.
This is the best crime novel I have read in years, for two reasons. First of all, the language is exquisite. Connolly writes like a poet, and the first few pages where he described the "honeycomb world" is worth the price of the book alone.
Second of all, Charlie Parker, the main character. With a dry cynicism as sharp as his wit, he delivers one-liners one after one. I found myself going back to re-read passages many times during the course of this book, for the humour alone. But this is not a funny book, not at all.
I won't tell you any more about the story, as it deserves to develop on its own when you read it. Let me just warn you that the ending is not at all as good as the rest of the book, and that did make me sad. The last ten or so pages are standard Hollywood-drama, and lack the originality the reader has been spoiled with during the course of the novel.
Still, Connolly pulls it off.
"The Killing Kind", approved!
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