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Animosity (Hardcover)


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1.0 out of 5 stars Trashy & Nasty, Jul 3 2005
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This review is from: Animosity: A Novel (Hardcover)
An artist with a roving eye sets up camp in the Texas hill country. He becomes involved with sisters and one has kyphosis or hunchback. The story is just as distorted as her spine.

The story moves slowly through the playboy artist's work and love life and ends on a very trashy note indeed. This is only just a step above Mark Nykanen's "The Bone Parade," which was purely ghoulish and grisly.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Animosity from girlfriends creates appalling results, Jul 18 2004
By dr_sasp (England, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Animosity (Mass Market Paperback)
Ejected from his latest tortuous relationship when she stabs him, famous reclusive artist Ross Mateau escapes into hypnotic monotony of moulding flattering sculptures of trophy wives. His creative eye is revitalised by the arrival of two beautiful, enigmatic (though decidedly weird) sisters. Intrigued, he accepts their commission to sculpt the stunning but deformed Leda.

Lindsey enchants with his expertly crafted details of Ross's well-ordered life in San Rafael and convinces with the specifics of the artistic process. The triangular dynamic between Ross, the sculptor; Leda, the troubled, hunchbacked model of his newly testing sculpture; and Celeste, gorgeous lover with her lurking problems of a grievous marriage, appears to settle into a predictable, if awkward routine.

Then, all is shattered by the brutal murder of his lover's husband and it becomes clear that Ross's life will never be the same again.

Lindsey continues to prove that he is a superior thriller writer in this departure from the routine police/murder investigation that provides the bread-and-butter plotting of most thriller writers. His imagination, characterisation and plotting yet again earn him the acclaim, if not the popularity, that he deserves.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Mistake, Jan 18 2004
By Joe Bulka (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Animosity (Mass Market Paperback)
I dont believe that I actually finished this book. Book is boring, plot is nonsense, and how anybody actually enjoyed this book is beyond me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Unique
Every once in awhile you find a book that just won't let you go. Animosity is such a book. I could not put it down and I thought about it for days after I was finished. Read more
Published on Oct 17 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Animosity = What the reader feels
Having read and thorougly enjoyed Lindsay's Absence of Light, I eagerly bought everything else of his that I could find. My second voyage into his writing was this book. Read more
Published on Jun 23 2003 by Donald

3.0 out of 5 stars Diabolique without the Twist
This is the first Lindsay book I have read and based on the characterizations I am not apt to pick up another one except perhaps to explore the Stuart Haydon character many of the... Read more
Published on Jun 22 2003 by Diana F. Von Behren

4.0 out of 5 stars Texas, Hitchcock-style
David Lindsey has a very good reputation, as far as I'm concerned, as a mystery writer. His books are moody, slowly paced, wonderfully written, and very quirky and atmospheric... Read more
Published on April 10 2003 by David W. Nicholas

4.0 out of 5 stars When first we practice to deceive
Oh, what a tangled web we weave. Well, particularly if you are female and land in the pages of Mr. Lindsey's books? Read more
Published on Mar 7 2003 by Mamalinde

4.0 out of 5 stars Truely Terrifying
I have never read a David Lindsey book before this one, so I had no preconceived notions about what type of writer he is. Read more
Published on Feb 15 2003 by Jessica A. Williamson

5.0 out of 5 stars Subtle tale of love, obsession, betrayal and murder
"Amimosity" is the story of Ross Marteau, a sculptor noted for his nude sculptures, who becomes entwined in the lives of two sisters when they commission him to do a... Read more
Published on Jan 18 2002 by D. Kaplan

1.0 out of 5 stars What a disappointment!
One of my favorite writers has come up with a real mess. This doesn't even read like the David Lindsey I know. Read more
Published on Dec 26 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars Just a terrible book
I can't believe how lousy,sloppy and improbable this book is. David Lindsey,who brought us the complex,facsinating Stuart Heydon,has apparently decided that he doesn't need him... Read more
Published on Nov 26 2001 by Dan More

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Story, Great Ending
When sculptor Ross Marteau is warned that the subject for his next sculpture was unusual, he didn't know the half of it. Read more
Published on Oct 23 2001 by Untouchable

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