{"id":9008,"date":"2017-04-04T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T12:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2021-06-03T18:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T22:01:39","slug":"l-a-requiem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9008","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Requiem"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.A. Requiem<\/a><\/em> (1999) Robert Crais<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lucy Chenier and her son Ben have moved to LA, and they soon learn that there is a great difference between a long distance relationship and being together in the same town.<\/p>\n

Would you please move the couch again?\u201d <\/p>\n

I stared at the couch. I had moved it maybe eight hundred times in the last two days. \u201cWhich wall?\u201d <\/p>\n

She chewed at her thumb, thinking. \u201cOver there.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where it was two moves ago.\u201d <\/p>\n

It was a big couch. It probably weighed three thousand pounds. <\/p>\n

\u201cYes, but that was when the entertainment center was by the fireplace. Now that we\u2019ve put the entertainment center by the entry, the look will be completely different.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYes. We.\u201d <\/p>\n

I bent into the couch and dragged it to the opposite wall. Four thousand pounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course all this moving is interrupted by a call from Pike–the daughter of a friend is missing, could Elvis please come help with the search.<\/p>\n

Thus begins and downward spiral of absolutely everything going wrong for Elvis.<\/p>\n

I drank a can of the Falstaff while I was waiting in line, and got disapproving looks from the other shoppers. I pretended not to notice. They probably hadn\u2019t spent the day with a young woman with a hole in her head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll note that this book explicitly mentions that Pike was in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

This book also goes into something I noted with this series as well as with Spenser.<\/p>\n

I found peace in the small motor activity… To cook is to heal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This book also gives us a great deal of Joe Pike’s back story, while Elvis’ life is falling apart. <\/p>\n

Despite all the terrible things that happen to Elvis, I think this book feels true and real. Lucy may have thought she understood what Elvis did and who he was, but she didn’t really, and I don’t think her reaction was incorrect, given who she is. It’s hard, but I think it’s true.
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Ballantine Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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