Homicide by David Simon Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Homicide
Book Review: Interesting Plot, author has difficulty presenting it
Summary: 3 Stars
The author develops this plot so slowly that I'm amazed he is a journalist by profession. Perhaps that's a refelction of why journalism today is so lousy. I found the development of the plot and the writing of the book so cumbersome that I've put it down and read other books three times.... Oh I'll finish it on some night when I've read and reread all other books in the house....Book Review: Love the show... love the book
Summary: 4 Stars
My husband is a BIG fan of the TV show. We have every episode on DVD. This book was a great addition to his collection. He loved the book and could see how the award winning TV was based on it. It is different enough that he throughly enjoyed it. I am now reading it and am enjoying it too! It is not the same as the show, and is a great book on it's own.
Book Review: Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a fan of the HBO show the Wire, this book is a good companion piece.Book Review: Monotonous -- if you've seen the TV show
Summary: 2 Stars
The first season is a near-perfect translation of the events in the book. I have the first season DVD set and I didn't get anything out of the book that I didn't get out of the show. I found the book to be incredibly boring; I only read 2/3 of it.Book Review: Much more enthralling than the TV show
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent book! The characters in it are engaging. The dialogue is wonderful. And the situations are both scary and amazing: amazing in how so stupid some people are and how little it takes for someone to kill someone else, scary because it is all true.In case you weren't aware of that, this book is actually the story of one of Baltimore's homicide units in 1988. Simon went around with the detectives for the entire year and have put their stories down in this book.
At times it is quite sad to read about the brutal atrocities that people are committing against each other. At times it is satisfying to read about the detectives tracking down or lucking in to catching those responsible for the many deaths. But it is always engrossing and fascinating to follow the process and the people involved in one of the uglier jobs possible. This book is a must for any fan of police stories, criminal investigations or anything related to law and order. And in case you further didn't realize it, this book was the basis for the tv show of the same name. It makes the show even scarier to know that not only is it based on real life, but many of the stories from the show are taken straight out of the book. If you were a fan of the show, you will easily recognize many of the exact same cases here in the book. (Or rather vice versa since the book was first.) Easily one of the best books that I've read in a while!