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Already Dead (Paperback)
by Charlie Huston (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Del Rey Books (31 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 034547824X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345478245
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 755,691 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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4 star: 11%  (1)
3 star: 11%  (1)
2 star: 11%  (1)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Horrible !! Brilliant !!, 19 Jan 2006
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This book is profane and very nasty (as are his non vampire books)but Charlie Huston is a bit special, I think. He writes stories that are very exciting. It's a case of just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, they just did. And he does it at a pace and with a wit that has me gasping at the outrageous talent of the man. I discard a lot of books half read out of sheer bordom but this author keeps me on the edge of my seat, hyper-ventilating and ripping over the pages as fast I can. Even if some of those pages have me wincing with the nastiness of it all. I can only imagine that Charlie Huston is going to sink into obscuriy because there aren't enough readers who can take the horror or he's going to be a superstar.
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Already Dead, 21 Feb 2007
This review is from: Already Dead (Paperback)
Having read the review already posted, I had great hopes of this. They were not met. On one level the idea of a vampire-PI hold a lot of attraction. After all, if dinosaur-PI fiction works well, then why not give the undead a turn?

Why three stars? Unfortunately, Huston chooses to recycle the kind of tale MacDonald, Chandler and Hammett were writing sixty years ago. Oh, and add Robert Towne's 'Chinatown' to that list. I can never get enough of that genre but these days it does demand more originality than the supernatural veneer the author applies to his tale. Minus one star for that.

Then there is the strange formatting of dialogue that make this a hard book to read. What's the point? Huston uses several self-indulgent stylistic quirks which just get in the way of a reader's enjoyment. Minus another star.

If this book had a decent editor (or if Huston had just listened to his) then it would be much, much better. It is a good book, just not as good as Huston thinks it is.
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