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Street Dreams
While I have read all of Jonathon Kellerman's novels, this is the first I have read of Faye Kellerman's series'. While there were references from previous books that I didn't understand, I didn't find them distracting enough to bog me down in the story. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Faye Kellerman weaves an interesting mystery with the warmth of family relationships, and...
Publié le Juil 11 2004 par Sara L. Alguire
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FAYE KELLERMAN'S 'STREET DREAMS' LIMNS THEMES OF FAITH AND R
FAYE KELLERMAN'S 'STREET DREAMS' LIMNS THEMES OF FAITH AND RACE by Joe Shea American Reporter Correspondent (Kellerman, Faye. Street Dreams. New York: Warner Books, 2003. 420 pages. $25.95 ) BRADENTON, Fla. -- Set on the seamy side of Hollywood, Faye Kellerman's latest mysery, 'Street Dreams,"
is an unusual vehicle for themes of Jewish...
Publié le Oct. 30 2003 par Roger Bray
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Embarrassing!, Juil 19 2004
I have read all in F.K.'s Decker series, and this was by far the worst. The other reviewers already noted the excessive coincidences, the silly relationship with Koby, and the disappointing subplot regarding Rina's mother. What I found most trite was that in the last pages we learn the culpret was none other than a muslim with possible terrorist links. How tedious can she get?
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Dreams for Aspiring Authors, Juil 16 2004
This book gives inspiration to all author wanna-be's. Try just a bit & you'll create something better than this meager tale. This novel is downright boring. Hardly what one would term "a page turner." It lacks for excitement, suspense, enjoyment, wonder, chills and just about every reason readers gravitate toward fiction. It was my first Faye Kellerman novel & very well might be my last. However, I should keep in mind the works of Dean Koontz. Sometimes a work of art--Dark Rivers of the Heart. Sometimes a work of an over imaginative saddistic middle school student--so pathetically terrible, not worthy of mention by title. That said, Kellerman should be given the benefit of the doubt; I vow to try 1 more.
Cynthia "Cindy" Decker is our leading lady. A police officer who is following in the footsteps of her, mildy camoflauged macho-macho man, police officer father. Cindy meets up with an irresistible male RN who works in a pediatric ward, no less. He's quite the smorgasboard--Jewish, Ethiopian, Black, Russian, We Are The World, nicknamed "Kobie." It doesn't get much better; as in---it's rather lame. Kobie has no life outside of the sterile walls. But...then he meets Cindy and by darned, she's also Jewish! Therein lies their only commonality. They're not natured alike; they don't think alike. No chemistry between them. Quite frankly, there is very little character development in those two. They're basically androgynous. After many chapters, we find that Cindy sees a therapist for some unknown reason & bless her heart, suggests that Kobie should see one...for some unknown reason...or maybe it's his self-professed "dark moods." Which don't seem to be more than a slight shade of gray. Not that we are ever privvy to said moods. Cindy Decker's big find/big case is an infant who is miraculously found in a dumpster. Even more miraculous is that the infant survives. And miracle of all miracles, the mother is tracked due to shared Down's Syndrome. In Los Angeles! Amazing. The true miracle here is how this book made it to a publisher. My cat seems to have more extraordinary street dreams.
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Very disappointed, Juil 13 2004
I find it difficult to believe that readers have given STREET DREAMS four and five stars. So far, I'm on page 311, most of it has been redundant and boring. If Cindy whines and repeats herself much more, I'll have to scream. I usually enjoy Faye Kellerman a lot. This time I'm tempted to simply put the book down for good. Sorry folks.
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Street Dreams, Juil 11 2004
While I have read all of Jonathon Kellerman's novels, this is the first I have read of Faye Kellerman's series'. While there were references from previous books that I didn't understand, I didn't find them distracting enough to bog me down in the story. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Faye Kellerman weaves an interesting mystery with the warmth of family relationships, and new love. I found it to be both riveting and heartwarming. How often do you find a book that does both? I am definitely a new fan!
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A female Jewish Cop in LAPD, hard hard hard!, Avril 28 2004
This is a detective story of a new style. In a way an inside story of the LAPD. Cynthia Decker is a cop on the beat in Hollywood. We follow her step by step in a period of her professional life, her transition year from officer to detective. This period is centered on one particular case : the story of Sarah Sanders and her discarded baby. This leads to exploring the world of handicaped people in LA, their problems, their reactions to life and their ways of thinking and behaving. But this also leads to a network or gang of people who are taking advantage of retarded women with a gang rape and a shadowy character who seduces them, uses them and then discards them. Violence is of course part of the picture : a man is beaten up, a woman is hit and run to death, Cynthia Decker is the victim of an attemped murder, etc. But the interest of the book goes a lot farther. It explores the institution known as the LAPD, its inside rivalries, careerism and ambitions, its legal limitations that prevent efficiency, and the necessity at times to go beyond these limits to get the information and the lead an investigation needs, and even the difficulty for women to be really equal in this institution that is definitely male-dominated. Even further it explores the problem of racism inside the institution and of the insritution towards society at large : racial prejudice is an everyday reality and it requires a lot of work to get rid of it or at least to neutralize it. But even further, Cynthia Decker being Jewish, it goes into exploring the Jewish community she lives in, with openings to the old antisemitism of Germany in the 30s, to antisemitism in America today, to the Jewish commmunity spirit both religious and social or cultural, etc. This exploration of Jewish culture is extremely interesting and it is the basis of the motivations of several characters in the book as for their involvement in police work and hospital work. The book brings the case to an end which is in a way a satisfying ending giving answers to all the questions asked in the novel. It has a few flaws that limit the effectiveness of the reasoning. For instance, the fact that the killer is an Iraqi disguising himself as a Mexican is a little bit easy. Sex offenders come from all walks of life and all social strata. It would have been a lot more effective if this character had been a plain American citizen, because most offenders in this field are plain American people, in general plain citizens in any country who are characterized most of the time as simple, lackluster and just nice neighbors. In the same way the anti-arab or anti-Palestinian stand of some characters, though perfectly true among some Jews is provided to us without any distanciation and without what is essential among Jews : all Jews are not thinking along this line and quite many of them remember their past and refuse to reproduce this past against the Palestinians, even in Israel itself. It is also too easy to reduce, the way the book does, the national struggle of Palestinians to terrorism. But apart from these flaws, the book is interesting because it goes beyond the plain criminal details into the psyche and consciousness of the people at stake, particularly the cops. Cops are definitely not simple-minded people : they do have a culture, an ethical stand and doubts about their involvement in society and the way they have to work to find criminals in a society that is definitely opaque and obscure, a characteristic that enables criminals to hide very easily.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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Cracking the Maze of rape , murder and thuggery, Mars 20 2004
Street Dreams is yet another thrilling page turner by Faye Kellerman.
When LAPD officer Cynthia Decker finds an abandoned infant in a downtown rubbish dump, the hunt is on for clues, through the murky world of inner city Hollywood. Cindy finds her love interest in an Ethiopian-Israeli male nurse, with lots of charm and mystique - Yaakov Kutiel 9the book focuses much on Cindy and Yaakov's steamy romance) , and soon joins up with her father Lieutenant Peter Decker, in cracking open a maze of rape and murder, in many sleazy and dangerous corners. It is a story of the vicious thugs that pray on the innocent. A side story takes place as Rina, Peter Decker's beautiful Orthodox wife does some of her own detective wife, also roping in 'Loo' Decker, to find out about the murder of her grandmother in Munich, Germany, in 1928. Hence the story is set against the backdrop of both the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany , in the 1930's and the war of Arafat and his PLO mass murderers to eliminate the Jewish state today - the preparation for another holocaust of Jews. The backdrop of the criminal motivated murder on the streets of LA is shadowed by the murder of Jews in Israel today, and in Europe so many centuries ago.
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Good Story, Mars 9 2004
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I enjoyed Faye Kellermans "Street Dreams". A little diferent then her other stories since this one centered around Lt.Deckers daughter. I have read all Faye Kellermans books and like them all.
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Thriller Alert, Mars 1 2004
I thought that this was an outstanding book that had a lot of important issues come alive. The two issues that come straight to my mind abondend baby and a seierl killer on the loose.
Both of these topics are things that happen in every day life.
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A mystery enthusiast delight !, Fév 20 2004
'Sweet Dreams' is a mystery enthusiast (like myself) dream come true. I was engrossed from the start and held spellbound until after I had finished the book. Kellerman is a writer that I truly enjoy!
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Extremely dull with wooden characters, Janv. 27 2004
I have to admit I am new to the series, but I am not going to bother with any more books like this if this is how she writes. The characters are all so wooden and passionless even in the midst of a supposed romance, that they might as well be stick figures. Making the boyfriend one of the suspects and the whole theme of sexual abuse are being done to death by the publishers these days, and the Jewishness of the novel is totally superficial gloss.
Father and daughter tensions amount to a storm in a tea cup, as does the solving of an old murder in Germany. the author has no ability to create suspense through setting, or characterization via dialogue.
I can see the author has written many novels, and is getting tired of even her own characters. Yet another mediocre churn and burn book from the big publishers looking for 'product' rather than a great, memorable story.
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Street Dreams par Faye Kellerman (Mass Market Paperback - Juil 1 2004)
CDN$ 10.99 CDN$ 9.89
Habituellement expédié sous 3 à 5 semaines
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