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Jun 02, 2023Crave83 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The Drop by Dennis Lehane 5h 26m narrated by Jim Frangione, 224 pages Genre: Contemporary Adult Fiction, Mystery, Thriller > Crime > Noir, Mystery Thriller; Suspense Featuring: Epigraph, Dog, Missing Person, Christmas, Little Christmas,…
Apr 22, 2023
"They never see you coming, do they, Bob?" A haunted bartender (more dangerous than anyone suspects) and his desperate, embittered cousin (not nearly as smart as he thinks he is) are the twin foci of this extremely Bostonian hardboiled…
Jan 28, 2022TheBookishLife rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
You can’t go back after Kenzie and Gennaro. None of Lehane's other books come close to the depth and impact of that six-book series. Here, with The Drop, there are too many unnecessary POVS introduced; I was frustrated and eventually…
Dec 02, 2021dsw3914 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Very good book that I had somehow missed. I thought I had read all of the Dennis Lehane books but had missed this one. Very east to read. A good story, good characters, lots of dialogue and very little navel-gazing. Not the happiest book…
Oct 03, 2020burroak rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Reads like a Cohen brothers movie.
Feb 22, 2020tjdickey rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
From the master of the "new noir," a quick but wretched story of the Boston underworld, [and redemption through an unlikely encounter with an abandoned dog, a kind neighbor, and an old priest.
Jul 14, 2019EljayJohnson rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A very short offering from Lehane, in essence an extended novella. It's classic Lehane - the streets of Boston are dark, dark, dark and the people who walk them are battered and bruised, body and soul. Sad sack Bob the bartender finds a…
Jul 28, 2017
Bob leads a loser's life, tending a shabby bar, making sure the Chechens get their irregular betting drops, having mercy on an penniless elderly bar fly now and then. Then he rescues a badly battered puppy whimpering in a dumpster, and…
Jul 13, 2017loudem rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
It started like the samo samo. Old stuff, you know? In a way it stayed that way. Bar, bets, numbers, dangerous overlords. The end picked up speed but still... An old kind of story Westlake would have written way way back.
Dec 25, 2015millauto rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Though often thoroughly gritty, his writing is sheer poetry.
Sep 11, 2015dutchw rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
As I understand it, this is Dennis Lehane's novelization of his screenplay for the movie of the same name, based upon his short story "Animal Rescue." Prior the reading this book, I saw the film, which was stunning! I have watched it 4…
May 25, 2015JackPurcell rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A fairly entertaining evening read.
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Mar 23, 2015Vincent T Lombardo rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I love Dennis Lehane and have read and enjoyed almost all of his books. This book was wonderful. It was a great story, but Lehane made you sympathize with almost all of the characters, no matter how flawed. Superb!
Jan 24, 2015richardtuckerjones rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent. At first I was worried that the copyright is held by 20th Cen Fox, not the author. But then realized this is really a spin off of a screen play for a movie I haven't seen yet. Aside from that, this is the author at his best.…
Dec 16, 2014pitkerro rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
In a word - brilliant.
Dec 09, 2014BLACKSQUIRREL_1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
really liked it--haven't seen the movie so don't know if thats good or bad
athompson10
Oct 07, 2014athompson10 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Short, taut, tense story with great dialogue. Back to the best of Lehane, after the disappointment of the last of the Kenzie/Gennaro books "Moonlight Mile" and the so-so "Live by Night".
Jul 22, 2014JCLGreggW rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Dennis Lehane's newest - a novel that started as a short story then developed into a screenplay and is now a movie, if you're keeping track - is not by any means a letdown, but it's not brilliant either, even though parts of the novel…