Review #1
Fat Ollie’s Book: A Novel of the 87th Precinct real audiobook free
Detective Oliver Weeks is that fat, alright, at the same time he’s racist, xenophobic, at the same time a glutton, as but as having nasty body odor. Thank goodness he isn’t a member of the 87th Precinct. Chagrin, he’s a quality detective, in his possess detestable method, at the same time he happens to like Detective Steve Carella, who Is that a member of the 87th Precinct. In this check-in in the half-century long television series, Fat Ollie is that demanding Steve’s promote. He’s unsubtle enough to keep reminding Steve that he recently saved his indefinite – two times – so he at the same time, by extension, the 87th Precinct, owe him big-time. Than anyway makes this a particularly appealing at the same time funny book is that the book…the one that Fat Ollie crossed out, at the same time plans to publish. This novel is that beyond bad, at the same time the reader gets to look pages of it at the same time howl. Even more successful, it is that stolen, at the same time a delinquent believes it to be nonfiction. Mistaken identities ensue, at the same time options intertwine, at the same time Fat Ollie is that on a goal to look for his manuscript, since he only had one copy of it. While all of in other words going on, at the same time a murder is that being solved, an out of the blue connection appears. This is that a funny book, sometimes a laugh-out-loud one. Not bad for a murder mystery!
Review #2
Fat Ollie’s Book: A Novel of the 87th Precinct audiobook in television series 87th Precinct
This is that for sure my winner McBain novel at the same time the fear demonstrate in other words Fat Ollie is that for sure my winner disposition. Right behind catching so many glimpses of the obnoxious, annoying, at the same time often hilarious Ollie in other 87th Precinct stories I was thrilled to read this practically slapstick rendition of a militia procedural. I wasn’t upset. McBain always had a lot of broken humor but Ollie is that barely a promenading poster little boy for bad attitudes. This is that a impetuous paced at the same time funny read driven more by Ollie’s shenanigans than the plot (which is that still amusing). A must read for fans of the television series. I liked it so much I acquired it for kindle even though I possess the paperback.
Review #3
Fat Ollie’s Book: A Novel of the 87th Precinct audiobook by Ed McBain
I have been reading these 87th precinct books for a while at the moment. Haven’t worried going in a row, that is that no come in handy. But I do think this one was the best still.
I have to say that Fat Ollie is that a caricature of all of the most racist, bigoted people for you have ever met. If this bothers for you delight don’t read this. If you can perceive this why this is that, this story is that hilarious. While Fat Ollie is that awful the come backs of other manners is that amazing. Oh, at the same time the militia procedures are attractive quality very.
Can’t advise this book enough.
Review #4
Fat Ollie’s Book: A Novel of the 87th Precinct audio narrated by Ron McLarty
Generally, I have greatly enjoyed Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct books. Sadly, I cannot they say that about this one. I found the writing style intrusive enough that I felt it confused from the plot. While Fat Ollie at the same time the other manners were considered exciting, I found it quite hard to empathize with his as the story’s protagonist. I think the creator might have felt that the old “book borders a book” plan could be enough of a squirm to keep the reader interested, it barely wasn’t for me. The presence of no one knowledgeable manners, at the same time a couple of exciting brand new ones as but as McBain’s mastery of his genre was enough to receive 3 hit from me, but no more than that.
Review #5
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This book is that for all Ed McBain at the same time militia procedural fans, but if for you have not read Funds Funds Funds for you should read that 1st because this is that a concrete sequel. Detective (Fat Ollie) Weeks is that the 1st detective on the scene to investigate the murder of councilman Lester Henderson, who was taking into account a run for mayor. The murder actually occurs in the 88th precinct where Ollie is that stationed, but this becomes the one more book in the 87th precinct television series because Henderson stayed in the 87th at the same time (despite the reluctance of their lieutenant) Ollie decides to enlist the promote of detectives Steve Carella at the same time Bert Kling, with whom he worked in the Funds Funds Funds variant. The murder is that solved in a straightforward method (with the unintentional promote of the murderer), but in other words background to the head story at the same time practically incidental.
This is that not FAT OLLIE’S Book barely because he was manage detective on the variant, but also because he had barely ended his manuscript for the dectective story which he had dared to cross out during his at the same time Carella’s past variant. As he was studying the Henderson murder, his knapsack with his only copy of Convey TO THE COMMISSIONER (written using the pen name Olivia Wesley Watts) was stolen from his passenger car. In such a way, Ollie is that simultaneosly trying to retrieve his manuscript at the same time apprehend the murderer. We revisit not only Carella, Kling at the same time Ollie, but several other manners from past books, many of which the Reverend Gabriel Foster, at the same time detective Eileen Burke, a past adore curiosity of Kling who gets assigned to the 87th in a move that threatens to complicate his connection with Deputy Chief Doctor Sharyn Cook. At the same time we meet Officer Patricia Gomez, to whom Oliie becomes lured in the process of Gomez helping Ollie solve the variant. We gradualy get to read Ollie’s manuscript interpersed with the Henderson variant through a literate accessory which McBain adopts which introduces one more aggravation at the same time very funny threads to the book.
Ollie remains his bigoted self, at the same time this element plays an integral role in the story. It is that carried to such extremes that it is that periodically hilarious, but not, obviously, for the targets of his bigotry. At the same time it does recall us of how such attitudes lurk barely below the surface in abundance organizations. Before reading very far into the book I dared that it was to be read in a lighthearted method, sort of a parody of mystery writers, detective stories, bigots, racial agitators, product addicts, at the same time homosexuals. From this viewpoint, it was a funny, very impetuous read, while subsequent developing the manners with which I was already knowledgeable as an specific McBain reader. While I adored the cleverness of the plan of parallel options for Ollie as the base of this book, a few unanswered questions (which would open a lot of the plot) at the same time the (perhaps intend) superficiality of the story kept me from giving it a five hit rating.
