Now You See Him, (Paperback)

from bobbieharv

Easy to skim because it was essentially dialog, which was just about its only virtue. The dialog was unbelievable (people just don't talk like that); the characters had no depth (for example, just what did Nick do at his work?); the big suspenseful secret was obvious by about page 40.

from snat

Nick Framingham is coping, albeit poorly, with the loss of his best friend, Rob Castor, a writer of some repute whose devil-may-care attitude the more introverted Nick envied throughout their childhood. We know from the beginning that Rob killed his girlfriend and then himself, leading to a media...

from cat-ballou

OK, so maybe 2-and-a-half stars. Ann Patchett liked it, I wanted to like it, too. But I was very disappointed that I could predict all of the 'twists.' So much for the thriller part. I thought that Nick, the narrator, was almost obnoxiously self-absorbed, his wife Lucy annoyed me with her single ...

from cat-ballou

OK, so maybe 2-and-a-half stars. Ann Patchett liked it, I wanted to like it, too. But I was very disappointed that I could predict all of the 'twists.' So much for the thriller part. I thought that Nick, the narrator, was almost obnoxiously self-absorbed, his wife Lucy annoyed me with her single ...

from chelseagirl

Gottlieb is an accomplished writer, and his novel pulled me in. Unfortunately, it didn't keep me there. It makes sense that in a novel about alienation and the failure to communicate, that the reader would feel distanced from the character. The problem is that there seems to be little reason to c...