Akashic Noir: Prague Noir (Paperback)

from campingmomma

Prague Noir was different from any other noir series I've read from this Akashic collection. I must admit I struggled a bit through the first two parts of this book, especially Part II, Magical Prague. I struggled not because the storytelling wasn't good, but because the stories themselves just d...

from jburlinson

Having now read three titles, I've grown quite fond of the format of this series: what with the outline map of the city with little silhouettes of cadavers lying in the neighborhoods where the various tales take place, the two page list of place entries in the series in teeny font since there are...

from Tucker.Christine

I was quite concerned when the foreword stated that these stories were only loosely connected to the noir genre, but diving in these worries were unfounded. While not the strictest definition, everything you could expect or want in noir can be found in these pages. Murder, revenge, betrayal - it'...

from technodiabla

This is the first Akashic Noir book I've read. Admittedly, I have a more specific fondness for Czech writers and Prague itself than the noir genre. These stories and the writing did not do much for me. I found many of them to be rambling and difficult to keep track of who was saying or doing what...

from sherman1951

Prague Noir, one of a series of almost 100 of noir short story books about a specific city or location, presents 14 such stories and as the editor says "are linked only loosely to the noir genre." The Czech Republic and Prague had a turbulent 20th Century but also a rich history, The editor has d...