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None No current Talk conversations about this book.  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |   I think by the end of the book most of the mysteries were solved but the plot was so opaque and the process meanders so much I can’t be sure. The answers to numbers one and six are not clear in my mind and it only hours since I finished reading the book. Jason Miller is a clever quipster. His inventive dialogue and narrative keeps you engaged paragraph by paragraph, but he is not a coherent storyteller. While characters like Slim, Anci, and Jeep Mabry are interesting, and his villains are bizarre, his plots are hard to follow and, ultimately, unconvincing. As a consequence, “Red Dog,” and his earlier novel, “Down Don’t Bother me” failed to hold my interest. Slim deserves a better milieu. The temptation in a series is to repeat aspects of the earlier stories. In “Red Dog” Slim is again jailed for a crime he didn’t commit. Jeep Mabry, “the reigning Most Dangerous Man in Little Egypt,” again serves as his backup and, at critical points, his “get out of jail free” card. Anci is once again smarter, more mature, and smug than Slim. It’s funny when we learn that she saved Slim by installing an app on his phone intended to allow parents to keep track of their kids. Later she gets her comeuppance. But the supporting characters are given little to do and mostly appear at critical points to function as “get out of jail free” cards. At points the plot is obscure and the actions of Slim and other characters too hard to understand. Countering that, some of the characters and Miller’s comments about the characters are downright funny. I’m coming to the conclusion that readers have to forgive a lot if they want to read Jason Miller’s Slim in Little Egypt series. (  ) Tatoosh | Oct 24, 2018 | no reviews | add a review
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Pitbull fighters, shadowy ne'er-do-wells, and murder mark Jason Miller's wry, darkly atmospheric second novel in his Little Egypt series--perfect for fans of Frank Bill and Greg Iles. One hot summer day, in his home in the southern Illinois coal country known as Little Egypt--a Midwest Gothic wonderland of barren vistas, sinister hollows, petty corruption, and deeply strange characters--the self-appointed "redneck detective" known as Slim gets a visit from a shady-looking pair who introduce themselves as Sheldon Cleaves and his son, A. Evan, looking to hire him to find a missing dog. As a miner with a reputation for "bloodhounding"--tracking down missing persons the police can't find or won't--Slim is accustomed to looking for people, not pets. On the other hand, he needs the cash to fix his air conditioner. But when he pulls the thread that leads to the Cleaveses' red-haired purebred pitbull--and then the dognapper is discovered with his head blown off--Slim finds himself plunged into a world of underground dogfights and white supremacists. . . all because he just wanted to get cool. As bitingly funny as it is starkly violent, Red Dog marks the emergence of a new, gritty voice in detective fiction. No library descriptions found. |
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