Sandman Slim

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• Sandman Slim. La stanza delle tredici porte

  La presentazione e le recensioni di Sandman Slim. La stanza delle tredici porte, opera di Richard Kadrey edita da Fanucci. Dopo undici anni passati all’inferno a uccidere mostri per conto di Azazel, uno dei generali di Lucifero, James Stark fugge e t ... (read full critics)

  Qlibri published on Thu, 23 Feb 2012

• Sandman Slim

  Richard Kadrey is not the most prolific novelist in the world. Still, every five, six years or so out comes another book like Metrophage, or Kamikaze L'Amour, dark, violent, intense works mostly set in and around Los Angeles with characters straight ... (read full critics)

  sfsite published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

3 Reviews

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  I have an idea, I will ride the coattails of The Dresden Files...

  but I want to add more cowbells and stuff... first of all I'll make the main character more badass than Dresden, I mean at least like Dresden after book 7-8... and I will give him interesting friends who know more about magic than him, sorta like Dresden around book 2... and I could give him a human ... (continue)

  but I want to add more cowbells and stuff... first of all I'll make the main character more badass than Dresden, I mean at least like Dresden after book 7-8... and I will give him interesting friends who know more about magic than him, sorta like Dresden around book 2... and I could give him a human head as companion... totally different from the skull that Dresden has... way more original and not derivative at all!!!

  The idea of making the main character more morally nuanced (or at least an anti-hero of sort) by having him fight in Hell's Arena and commit various demonic assassinations had some merit... unfortunately by the end of the (first, but I doubt I'll go on with the series) book we notice that the character talks a lot of how evil he is, but he never kills another human being outside of a fight, never causes unnecessary harm (except to inhuman adversaries) and spends a lot of time musing about how he is close to get into a murderous rampage... which never actually happens.

  The rest (implausible fake-hard boiled mystery, plot holes, parade of supernatural entities always more incredibly powerful and yet always unable to score some meaningful hit on the main character) are pure Dresden. So we can at least say that the author managed to out-Dresden Dresden in the bad parts. With atrocious dialogue, to boot.

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  Pamar said on Apr 11, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  Recensione qui:
  http://spaceofentropy.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/sandman-…

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  zeros said on Nov 20, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Around half of the book I wasn't sure if I was liking it or not. The story is nice, dialogues are funny, a bit overdone at times and hysterically funny at other times.

  The plot twist at the is just a bit disappointing, but on the other hand it makes everything click in place.

  It's definitely a nic ... (continue)

  Around half of the book I wasn't sure if I was liking it or not. The story is nice, dialogues are funny, a bit overdone at times and hysterically funny at other times.

  The plot twist at the is just a bit disappointing, but on the other hand it makes everything click in place.

  It's definitely a nice book. Nothing that will change your view on modern literature or anything, but a fun ride nonetheless.

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  Luciferasi said on Jul 2, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback 416 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0061976261
• ISBN-13: 9780061976261
• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Pub date: Apr 27, 2010
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 110 mm x 32 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook

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