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Release Date: 2002-07-09
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An Unsatisfactory NovelI cannot recommend Alan Furst's Night Soldiers. It is a perfect example of a good idea that is spun out to the point of exiguous interest. At 450+ pages this novel is at least 100 pages too long. The author's grasp of the story he wants to tell eludes even him, the narrative drive is arrested, and the plot devolves into virtually impenetrable byways in which the characters of interest essentially get lost. When the final page has been turned the reader sighs with delight: that it is over. As in any other medium, brevity tends to concentrate what the author is about, and prolixity always diffuses it. This is what Furst has allowed to happen in Night Soldiers.
While Furst's writing is generally good, too often the historical apparatus which inform his work shows awkwardly. It is a kind of "Gee whiz, look at the research I did" thing. Do we really care, for instance, that in the closing scene, a young woman in New York has bought jelly doughnuts at Cake Masters (a now long defunct New York City bakery)? To me this is an inconsequential and even false verisimilitude because it is of absolutely zero importance. Night Soldiers, like Furst's other books, are top-heavy with these kinds of references. For my money, it's too much jam on the bread. The bread gets soggy as a result.
Evidently, also, Mr. Furst missed the basic lesson in English composition which cautions against the use of incomplete sentences. He loves them, no doubt thinking they're snappy when they are really, simply, incomplete. Mr. Furst is to be reminded that a complete sentence contains a subject, a verb, and an object. His sentence fragments, so frequent are they, interrupt his narrative and call undue attention to the unburnished quality of his writing.
My advice? If you want a compelling Alan Furst novel, read Red Gold. It is both tighter and tauter.
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Reading with TequilaFour Blind Mice is my least favorite Alex Cross novel. While I enjoy the series and loved the extra focus on Alex's partner Samson, the mystery was focused on the military. While this is of interest to many, it holds no entertainment value for me. Alex's girlfriend, Jamilla, didn't make things any better. Short chapters and Patterson's classic fast-paced style were the only thing that helped me get through this book. Probably great for most fans of the series, but a miss for me.
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