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The Drowning Pool
- A Lew Archer Novel
- Narrado por: Tom Parker
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Private investigator Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred - and sufficient motive for a dozen murders.
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the reader captures the feel of the noir detective
the story was ok, but to be honest, I listened to it in parts with days in between, so I was more enjoying it as if I was watching an old Humphrey Bogart movie and didn't always follow the plot. Tom Parker does a good job capturing Lew Archer's somewhat sarcastic sense of humor and dry self-awareness.
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- Dan Porter
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Interesting plot
A bit verbose in describing a few scenes. Fortunately not so many times to make it difficult. Twists in story kept me quite interested
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- peter
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Great story
Maybe a bit contrived here and there but overall engrossing and always entertaining. Definitely recommended.
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Enjoyable. Trying too hard to be Raymond Chandler. Looking forward to working through the series though.
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- Zeno
- 02-06-24
Classic private dick stuff
Imagine private eye novels as bottles of whiskey (Irish spelling, I know). There, on the top shelf, that's where you find the good stuff. Up there is Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer. And Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer is most definitely up there, too. He's as classic as it gets. He's seen it all, he's weary, he's weathered, he's tough, he's seen it all and, buried deep, he's a righteous man with a big heart.
The Drowning Pool was the second of many Lew Archer tales and it follows the winding and twisting paths of a classic private dick story. There are dead people and dead ends, there are guns and dames and twisted minds and villains lurking in the darkness far behind the obvious suspects. Like I said, good stuff.
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- Michael McDevitt
- 10-23-23
Souther California Noir
A good story, well read, plus a good period piece that captures post WW Ii Southern California…..
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- Q Garcia
- 05-27-21
The Letter
Archer is hired to find the writer of a degrading letter. What he gets - three murders and one suicide. Archer at his best.
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- Anne
- 12-05-21
Disney for lovers of language.
The descriptions, metaphors, and similes would stop me in my tracks. Excellent story with twists and turns. I have to admit, I was in it for the author's use of figurative language.
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- Reba
- 06-27-22
Ross Macdonald is a great suthor
My daughter and I love the way Ross McDonald describes what's going on. His descriptions are outstanding. he keeps you pulled into the story all the time.
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- Cranky Reader
- 02-15-22
Skip this one
I’m working through the Audible-included titles of this series, but not in order. After adjusting for the time period, most of the books are good yarns. This one isn’t.
The 2nd scene is a teenage girl being assaulted by a young guy and everyone lets it happen then several people who supposedly support her ask her what she did to bring it on, not why he didn’t stop when she said no. I almost quit it there, and should have. This teen is the worst character of the author’s I’ve run across. She overthinks everything, is portrayed as incredibly smart, but every single thing she does is dumb as a box of hair. She makes no sense and is completely unreal.
Then there’s Mavis. Lew does stupid thing after stupid thing when she’s around, even knowing she is all kinds of not worth it.
The Big Bad Criminals kill time and again, except for our hero Lew, who gets concussed on the regular, but never killed. He’s TSTL and should be dead 3 or 4 times over, just from this installment. The series itself requires some willing suspension of disbelief, in how many bodies turn up around our PI, but this earlier installment is a toxic masculinity fantasy. The characters are almost all unlikeable, including Lew. (The only good thing is that the gay character is merely bad at acting, not actually complicit in the many and sundry crimes, but no one takes a dig at the thugs’s moms for how they turned out, so it’s not nice either.)
The action kicks along, however frustratingly. Everything else, the crafting of the plot, the story arc, prose, detail, and characterizations are all subpar. Don’t read this one unless you’re a completist, and definitely don’t start here to see if you’ll like the author.
Narration: Good job as usual, and I probably wouldn’t have stuck with it had it not been well acted.
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