The Dead Horse Paint Company [Audio Cassette]

EARL EMERSON (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1997

2 AUDIO CASSETTES

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: SUNSET PRODUCTIONS (1997)
• ASIN: B000M52JDO
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Macho? I think not!, November 6, 2000

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Gabrielle Luthy (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dead Horse Paint Company (Mass Market Paperback)

Just like Thomas Black, Mac Fontana is a character I--a macho-disliking female--love! I'm wondering if some people miss the irony in Earl's books. I started reading him because I was with a friend on vacation and she could hardly put "Dead Horse" down. I ordered one of his books off Amazon, devoured it in about 2 hours, then went out the next day and ordered every other single title of his I could get my hands on, and read them one per day.

Dead Horse is my favorite of his books, next to "The Portland Laugher". It's Mac at his finest--uncertain, a little vulnerable, but determined to do the right thing. Even if he doesn't always know what that should be...

Yes, his writing can be a little choppy at times, but that's a style thing. I'm used to it, and I like it. I don't think it's a good idea to ever come in at the end of a series, particularly when so much of the character groundwork has already been laid. It begs the comment "....

The only bad thing I can say about this book is that it's been far too long without a sequel. Earl! Please! The suspense is killing me!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He writes about people who seem real, April 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Dead Horse Paint Company (Mass Market Paperback)

I live in the Northwest and can put myself in the real life situations he writes about. Why do we have to wait so long inbetween books. I am hungrey for more.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mac Fontana is priceless., March 2, 1999

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[e-mail] (Columbus, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dead Horse Paint Company (Mass Market Paperback)

In the past month I discovered Emerson's Thomas Black mysteries and was so consumed by them (or did I consume them?) that after finishing them all I headed right back to the store for as many of the Mac Fontana series as I could find.

As a general rule, I don't care for continuing characters in mystery -- they rarely have enough "character" to hold my interest for more than 2 or 3 books. Emerson's work is miraculously entertaining for book after book, for both the Black and the Fontana series. His minor characters are as memorable as his heroes, and Mac Fontana is a real delight (and I know comparisons are odious, but what a treat to read a Fontana book after that dismal Kinsey Milhone character perpetrated by Sue Grafton, which I gave up on after letter C).

I can't say that "Dead Horse " is the best of the Fontana series for the simple reason that all the Fontana books are so pleasing to me that it would be insolence on my part to rate one of them higher than another.

I, too, must take issue with the reader who didn't like the chapter titles. I think writing interesting chapter titles is very nearly a lost art form, and feel much indebted to Emerson for his chapter headers. (In particular, the opening chapter of Dead Horse has a fine title that I showed around the office to those of a scatological nature.)

Please, Mr. Emerson, stay out of burning buildings! Your books have become essential to my well-being.