Friday, August 05, 2005
The Final Solution
I picked this book up after slogging half way through Pete Hamill’s thoroughly disappointing Valentine to Manhattan Forever (he should have saved us the trouble and mailed a heart shaped box of chocolates)
Anyhow
This book concerns an aging beekeeping Sherlock Holmes in 1944 on the case of a missing parrot and a murder, but mostly on the case of the parrot. It is good, but (I think) too short. Just when it got good it was over. Chabon builds such beautiful, intriguing scenes that I wanted him to stretch out and to enjoy, but they came and went and then the book ended.
But it is still worth the read—a summer afternoons investigation into the insanity of the human condition.
Anyhow
This book concerns an aging beekeeping Sherlock Holmes in 1944 on the case of a missing parrot and a murder, but mostly on the case of the parrot. It is good, but (I think) too short. Just when it got good it was over. Chabon builds such beautiful, intriguing scenes that I wanted him to stretch out and to enjoy, but they came and went and then the book ended.
But it is still worth the read—a summer afternoons investigation into the insanity of the human condition.
# posted by Tom Smith @ 1:51 PM 
