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Very Bad Deaths [Audio CD]

Spider Robinson (Author, Narrator)

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Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (January 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786182431
ISBN-13: 978-0786182435
Product Dimensions: 17 x 16.3 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 136 g

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Aging baby-boomer Russell Walker wants only to retreat from the world and the shattering death of his beloved wife, into the woods of British Columbia. But the real world won't let him become a hermit. Instead, he finds himself thrust into the mystery of a series of mass murders by a monstrous sadist and serial killer who makes Hannibal Lector look like a boy scout. And he is caught in a frightening predicament: He is the only possible intermediary between a telepath called Smelly, so sensitive he can't stand to be near most people, and a skeptical police officer who needs to hear and believe what Smelly knows about the fiend. This involuntary trio may be the only ones who can catch the inhuman butcher before he kills again-if he doesn't catch them first. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Award-winning author Spider Robinson is renowned for his "Callahan's Place" series of bestselling novels, the latest being Callahan's Con (Tor). With his wife, Jeanne, he has written the Hugo- and Nebula-winning "Stardance" series (Baen). He has been a favorite with readers from his earliest stories, which won him the John Campbell Award for best new writer. Since then he has garnered many other awards for his amusing, Heinlein-inspired SF, with the current total at three Hugos and a Nebula Award. He is frequently a guest at SF conventions across the US and Canada. His last book for Baen was the novel Lady Slings the Booze, an offshoot of the Callahan series. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoy!, Nov 8 2009

JosephineReader (Victoria, BC Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Bad Deaths (Mass Market Paperback)

While I enjoy a good SciFi read, I cannot call myself a true devotee to the genre. I find it hard to classify Spider Robinson's writing as just "Science Fiction". In my experience, most Science Fiction doesn't make me laugh out loud while reading it. Any Robinson book is generally guaranteed to crack me up at least once, and Very Bad Deaths certainly delivers. As with all his books, Robinson manages to cross a great many genres in Very Bad Deaths. A supremely good story teller, he somehow manages with this book to deliver the afore mentioned humour, while at the same time writing believably about some extremely dark subject matter. I could see this book appealing to fans of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, or to literary omnivores such as myself.

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Amazon.com: 3.7 out of 5 stars (27 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Set's your spidey sense tingling., Dec 7 2004

By J. R. BOATRIGHT "-_ Rick" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: VERY BAD DEATHS (Hardcover)

Spider Robinson's iconoclasic view of North America from his chosen retreat in rural Canada always provides a useful distance to view the oddities of the modern world. This was clear in LifeHouse, and in his other recent non-Callihan's books.

This extends the trend once again pitting a Spider-like hero against forces beyond his ability to understand much less conquer.

It's a gripping tale, held me tight, and I read it in one setting. I only wish that the antagonist now did not live in the back of my head. I've avoided reading Hannible Lecter, or the tales of Ted Bundy, but now, Spiders take on evil is going to have residence in my head for quite a while.

It was worth it. Five starts with an asterisk. Don't leave this one lying down where your precosious ten year old will come acrossed it late at night.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Quirky entertainment, Jan 20 2005

By C. Baker "cbaker" - Published on Amazon.com

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This review is from: VERY BAD DEATHS (Hardcover)

Very Bad Deaths is quirky and entertaining. We meet some very unusual people in this adventure.

It all starts when an old college roommate knocks on Russell Walker's door in the middle of the night. Poor Russell is a recent widower and columnist for a Toronto newspaper and not feeling too good about the world at the moment. This knock on the door in the middle of the night and the request for help by his old college roommate, Zandor Zudenigo, aka Smelly, jumpstarts Russell, reluctantly, back to action. Now Zandor is a very, very strange character and happens to know that a man named Allen plans to kidnap and kill an innocent family in a very painful and horrible manner. Allen is the worst kind of sadist imaginable and Russell feels he has no choice to help stop this monster. The problem is - Zandor can't go to the police himself, for reasons you'll find in the book. So Russell must do it for him. Fortuitously and by happenstance Russell runs into Constable Nika Mandic (both literally and figuratively), a Vancouver cop whose career is stalled. I don't want to give away too much of the plot - but Russell has a lot of work to do to convince Nika that his request is legitimate and he's not some nut, another fun part of the story. But eventually the chase is on as this odd troika sets off to find Allen and put an end to his heinous plans.

This is a very quirky and entertaining novel and is as much about the characters and their personal plights as it is an adventure story. It's a real page turner from beginning to end and is hard to put down. Definitely a thumbs up.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars The author as star, Sep 16 2006

By L. A. Turner - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Very Bad Deaths (Mass Market Paperback)

I did enjoy the actual reading of this book. It's a fun read. When I was done, however, I found myself disappointed. The concept of a suicidal writer teaming up with a telepath and a female cop to catch a psychopath is a good one. The "suicidal" part doesn't affect the plot at all, which was too bad because it could have been interesting. The end came too quickly, especially considering all the time he spent on his character battling bureaucracy.

The most annoying part about this book was how it was used to beat the reader over the head with how "marijuana is great". I don't smoke it and I'm neutral on the subject myself.

I expected more imagination from this author.

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