- Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Signet; 2nd THUS edition (28 Mar 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451184386
- ISBN-13: 978-0451184382
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,439,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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News producer Rick Beanblossom investigates a serial killer stalking the Minneapolis area as he tries to prove the innocence of Dixon Bell, a fellow Vietnam vet, eccentric TV weatherman, and rival for a beautiful anchorwoman.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Without giving any of the plot away, except to say that this is a thriller/murder mystery, there are so many twists and turns that you really do not know who the culprit is right until the end. The setting is moody and influenced by the weather, which happens to be dramatic, and the characters match the moods. I have never read another book which has matched up to this one, and to give you a clue my usual authors I read and enjoy are Dean Koontz, Jeffrey Deaver, Kathy Reichs, Linda Fairstein, James Patterson, Jonathan Kellerman, Patricia Cornwell et al.
Once you start you will have great difficulty controlling yourself and stopping at the end of the chapter you decide to stop at. You can't help but sneak a look at the start of the next chapter and bingo!!! you're hooked again to carry on reading. Warning! There are some gruesome and shocking bits in this book, but certainly not gratuitous.It is a longish book but I was sorry that it had to end. Give it a go!!
Format:Mass Market Paperback
What a great book! A most unusual thriller/suspense novel. Although it drifts just a LITTLE in the middle, the setting, backdrop and the characters all knit together extremely well and make it well worth reading. This book is very atmospheric and genuinely (a word I find grossly overused) haunting. But it is the cool, almost factual way he deals with the final scenes that got to me. They give the subject matter a lot of punch. Give it a go!! I have bought three other books by this author. ;)
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
A 'lumbering' literary masterpiece.
19 Jan 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
First of all, this novel is not for the occasional book reader. That could be why some of these reviews are so negative. The Weatherman is a very well written, engrossing book with a lot of back-story that adds subvertly but ingenuously to its progress, so that all of a sudden the characters are REAL! It's a mystery and so much more at the same time, including a realistic look into newsroom politics and meteorology. Few authors, today, attempt to write about such a large, unwieldy cast of characters as Thayer does almost effortlessly in this book. Rich Beanblossum ,a disfigured, yet brilliant Viet Nam vet, emerges slowly and unexpectly as one of the most original protagonists we've seen in a while. You may not enjoy every page of this grand mystery, but as you read it, the realization it's actually an incredible book will dawn pleasantly on you and you'll sense what a rarity it actually is.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Unexplained Mysteries
3 April 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I just read "the Weatherman" after having it hyped to me by a friend, and was keenly disappointed. Given the paucity of any compelling proof of Dixon Bell's guilt, the "mountain" of circumstantial evidence (that never placed him at the scene of a crime, a partial fingerprint that failed to meet even a minimum standard of proof, a diary that never mentioned any of the victims or hinted at murderous impulses) would have never convicted this man, let alone called for the death penalty. But far worse than these failings were the simply unexplained mysteries Thayer left behind. The last victim scratched her killer, leaving tissue and blood under her nails. The type O blood (the most common type) matched Bell's. But who can ever forget Detective Anglebeck's observation while interviewing Bell that he had no scratches anywhere on his hands. Apparently, Thayer did. This, unlike the circumstantial evidence against Bell, is forensic evidence that in any court would exonerate him. But it was never mentioned again. Neither was there any explanation of the origin of the "I'm going to ice you, Weatherman" messages Bell received, although there is a vague hint they came from Andy Mack, his jealous predecessor and temporary successor. And the mysterious meaning of Mack's dying words, "tell Dixon I'm sorry about those women," that at the time elicited such a strong response from Rick Beanblossom, disappeared from the story without a trace. ... My final complaint is not about "the Weatherman" itself but about writers who choose poor Minneapolis-St.Paul as the site of horrific serial murders. Between John Sanford's "Prey" series about serial killers in the cities and Thayer's "The Weatherman," I think I have counted somewhere close to one hundred victims since the mid-90s. Minnesota has changed.
Charles Whitaker
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Riveting
26 Sep 2005
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I've just finished reading this book for the third time, and generally by the time you read something that often the impact of it on you lessens. With the really good books, however, it doesn't, and it doesn't happen with The Weatherman. It's not a comfortable read and if it bothers you to read about state executions then this might not be the book for you, but it simply is a book that's very hard to put down. I finished it this time at 2:30 AM and when you have to work in the morning this is not exactly smart, but that's the kind of hold this book can create when you get deeply into the later chapters.
Reading the other reviews there is a lot of variation on what people like and dislike about this novel. Some like the plot, others think it's weak, some like the characters and some don't. It seems to pull people different ways more than most other books and that in itself is interesting. No matter what way you look at it, it's excellent writing and that is another reason to take a look at it.
Someone else mentioned The Green Mile. To me it brought up the memory of Dreiser's An American Tragedy. There are definitely some powerful and emotional scenes here.
If you want light and cozy, don't touch this one with a ten foot pole. If you want something that makes you think long after the book is closed, then this might be something you want on your bookshelf. This one is on my own keeper shelf and in another three or four years I'll probably lose another night's sleep over it. :)
Reading the other reviews there is a lot of variation on what people like and dislike about this novel. Some like the plot, others think it's weak, some like the characters and some don't. It seems to pull people different ways more than most other books and that in itself is interesting. No matter what way you look at it, it's excellent writing and that is another reason to take a look at it.
Someone else mentioned The Green Mile. To me it brought up the memory of Dreiser's An American Tragedy. There are definitely some powerful and emotional scenes here.
If you want light and cozy, don't touch this one with a ten foot pole. If you want something that makes you think long after the book is closed, then this might be something you want on your bookshelf. This one is on my own keeper shelf and in another three or four years I'll probably lose another night's sleep over it. :)
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