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The Right Madness (Hardcover)

by James Crumley (Author)
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (20 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007130805
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007130801
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 949,710 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for The Final Country: 'This is an extraordinary double-barrelled blast from a lost era. It's a two-fisted epic of Texan treachery, packed to the gunwales with sex, drugs, booze and guns...' John Williams, Independent 'Lyrical, liberal, exciting and humane. Sexy, too, with a generosity that transcends taste and as violent as needs be' Literary Review 'This complex thriller is so hardboiled it makes Ellroy and Connelly read like Simon and Garfunkel! it's good. Very good' Jim Driver, Time Out 'He combines the spare tautness of the best private eye novels with lyrical descriptions of an almost vanished West' Marcel Berlins, The Times 'A ripsnorting, cocaine and bourbon-fuelled ride through Texas in the company of Milo Mildragovitch' TJ Binyon, Evening Standard


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"The poet laureate of American hard-boiled literature, superior even to James Lee Burke"
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2.0 out of 5 stars Completely confused, 25 Nov 2005
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James Crumley has written a series of brilliant books with the best, in my opinion, being the Mexican Tree Duck. Things have deteriorated since then with The Right Madness being perhaps the worst of all his private eye books. Beautiful english and great descriptions but a disjointed and irrational plot. Far, far too many coincidences and a completely unbelievable central thesis. I had to read the book twice (and, sadly, make notes) in order to follow any kind of coherent story.
If you're a newcomer to Crumley and have started with this book, don't despair and go back to the early stories and start again.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Confused & Confusing, 21 Jun 2005
This review is from: The Right Madness (Hardcover)
I'm a great admirer of Crumleys earlier work - 'The Collection' (of his first 3 detective novels) and 'The Mexican Tree Duck' in particular are, I believe, comparable to Chandler. Gripping reads, atmospheric, great characterisation.

This though is confused & confusing - major plot twists & characters suddenly appear with no warning - the plot itself is preposterous - and without giving too much away, almost everyone turns out to be guilty or dead.

In place of believable characters and storyline we get the modern inferior replacement - a high body count & increasingly unlikely & gory horror.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Dead bodies everywhere (someone tell me whodunnit again?), 6 Jul 2006
By Hooligween "Rowena the Red" (Kernow, Great Britain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Right Madness (Paperback)
If you haven't read any of James Crumley's previous Milo and Sonny books then this may not be the best place to start. You *can* read it as a stand-alone, but it makes a helluva lot more sense if you have half an idea about what has gone on before in the preceeding half-dozen novels. I'm not going to spoil it and tell you here -- and if you have encountered CW before, then you know what to expect. Booze and drugs and an out of control road trip, mixing southern states with winter blues, punctuated by appallingly sudden outbursts of frightening violence which catch the reader as unaware as they do the victim (and sometimes the perpetrator, too).
The bit players come and go (pay attention to them, because inevitably one of them will hold the key to the mystery), and you can expect the usual grim toll of personal betrayal as Sonny's life falls apart around his ears. Mind you; Crumley must be getting soft in his old age -- there's a pair of fluffy pussycats sneaking in here!
The Right Madness is best read in one great big hit over a long weekend. Unplug the phone, lay in a bottle or ten, and turn the pages through the night when you're too wired to be reading and too wired to put it down. You still won't quite know what the hell is going on -- but I suspect that's the point.
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