Promised Land A Spenser Mystery The Spenser Series Book 4 eBook Robert B Parker
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Harvey Shepard's wife has run away and private detective Spenser has been hired to find her. A seemingly easy mission, but there may be more to this case than meets the eye.
Promised Land A Spenser Mystery The Spenser Series Book 4 eBook Robert B Parker
I read this book a little after it came out, in 1978. This was first of Parkers books I ever read. I thought it was one of the best Hard Boiled PI book ever, up there with my two favorites Chandler and MacDonald.. I started buying every Spenser book as they were published, for the next few years. After his first 10 books, I got tired of the characters, so I stopped reading them. I also got upset when Parker decided to write a sequel to Raymond Chandlers, Philip Marlowe series. I thought it was a cheap shot, at the greatest mystery series ever. Parkers, Marlowe was awful. Nothing like the Chandler character.I decided to reread Promise Land when I saw it on Amazon. I read it so long ago, it was almost a fresh read, I did remember some of the books details. In forty years my tastes have changes. I did have as high regard for the story, as when I originally read it. I always like character portrayal of Spenser and Hawk. Although the television series, was terrible, and the actors were nothing like the characters in the book. Especially their physical portrayal. I also found in the book Susan Silverman as being terribly annoying and superficial. In this book Susan, Pam (the runaway wife, Spenser his hired to find, by her husband) and Spenser have detailed, long discussions, on the questions of "machismo.' When I originally read this I found these discussion interesting but now, I found them ridiculous. I felt the same about the endless discussions between Spenser and Susan about there ever changing relationship. This book was written about the time of the Patti Hearst Kidnapping, when the Black Panther movement was at it peak and after the Anti-Vietnam protests. The novels has a flavor of these events, but uses radical feminist. Pam is one of the most morally corrupt, shallow, stupid, selfish and weakest characters I have ever read about. I had totally not sympathy for her. I couldn't believe than Spenser or Susan felt she was a victim. 40 years ago I would have given this book 5 stars, today only three. I might read a newer book on Spenser to see how it evolved. I don't like the fact that the series has continued after Parkers death, with a new author. .
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Promised Land A Spenser Mystery The Spenser Series Book 4 eBook Robert B Parker Reviews
I do not read the Spenser novels in any particular order, hence the time between when this novel was written (1976) and this review, 2011. In reading it at this time, after Parker's death, it seems foolish to criticize him but I think it helps define the book. In these early novels Parker has yet to find himself and devotes some of his effort to topics of the day and he seems to have pretensions of greatness, trying to lay claim to the "Great American Novel". Spenser must talk at a high level, not just tersely and about philosophical subjects, such as motives, ends and means. He and Susan have at it, the subject Spenser himself, and the subject machismo. They also discus the Shepards and the meaning as well as the showing of love. From there they get back into the story.
I am not satisfied with the depiction of Powers but enough is told of him for the story, the others in his group, except for Hawk, are only skimmed over. I am familiar with Hawk from many of the later Spenser books, it was a pleasure to meet him here for the first time. Also the relationship between Spenser and Susan begins to be worked out in this book; I wish I had read it sooner for some of the later works because I did, at times, get fed up with what Parker had them say and do to each other. The story itself was tightly drawn and believable; other authors used the same theme but few of them did it so neatly as Parker. The theme is popular in westerns, here it is set in well-established Eastern city with a crime lord running the show.The ending is more believable but is cut short, are all the mentioned charges against Powers applied and prosecuted? No need to stay tuned, the next books don't tell. Still it was a good read.
This is a really good story from an earlier time when Hawk was not a close ally of Spenser, but you can see the relationship developing at the end of the novel. Susan has a more developed part of the story than I remember having in the later books I have read. This book is solidly following the story line of an estranged couple when Harv Shepard hires him to find his runaway wife, but becomes a job of saving him from a loan shark who's muscleman is Hawk. But the runaway wife gets involved with a militant feminist group that holds up a bank and kills the guard. Spenser must try to expose both crimes while protecting his client couple.
I'm a big fan of Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. Nobody does detective - private eye novels better than Parker. I liked the television show "Spenser For Hire", loosely based on the books, but the books are much better. Most of the main characters are a little different than the TV show, except for Hawk. Avery Brooks nailed it. His Hawk is exactly like Hawk in the novels. I've bought the first 15 from The Godwulf Manuscript through Crimson Joy and have been reading them it order. I'm currently on the 13th, Taming A Sea-Horse, Once you start they are hard to put down. What you might call, "A page turner". Very entertaining.
I read this book a little after it came out, in 1978. This was first of Parkers books I ever read. I thought it was one of the best Hard Boiled PI book ever, up there with my two favorites Chandler and MacDonald.. I started buying every Spenser book as they were published, for the next few years. After his first 10 books, I got tired of the characters, so I stopped reading them. I also got upset when Parker decided to write a sequel to Raymond Chandlers, Philip Marlowe series. I thought it was a cheap shot, at the greatest mystery series ever. Parkers, Marlowe was awful. Nothing like the Chandler character.
I decided to reread Promise Land when I saw it on . I read it so long ago, it was almost a fresh read, I did remember some of the books details. In forty years my tastes have changes. I did have as high regard for the story, as when I originally read it. I always like character portrayal of Spenser and Hawk. Although the television series, was terrible, and the actors were nothing like the characters in the book. Especially their physical portrayal. I also found in the book Susan Silverman as being terribly annoying and superficial. In this book Susan, Pam (the runaway wife, Spenser his hired to find, by her husband) and Spenser have detailed, long discussions, on the questions of "machismo.' When I originally read this I found these discussion interesting but now, I found them ridiculous. I felt the same about the endless discussions between Spenser and Susan about there ever changing relationship. This book was written about the time of the Patti Hearst Kidnapping, when the Black Panther movement was at it peak and after the Anti-Vietnam protests. The novels has a flavor of these events, but uses radical feminist. Pam is one of the most morally corrupt, shallow, stupid, selfish and weakest characters I have ever read about. I had totally not sympathy for her. I couldn't believe than Spenser or Susan felt she was a victim. 40 years ago I would have given this book 5 stars, today only three. I might read a newer book on Spenser to see how it evolved. I don't like the fact that the series has continued after Parkers death, with a new author. .
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