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"Gumshoe Gorilla" is much less of a madcap action movie than Hartman's first book, and more of a game of "Clue." There is a smaller cast of familiar characters from the first book, all of whom were active or at least mentioned via Hartman's multiple point-of-view technique. I think Hartman handles the multiple perspective well and never found it confusing. (Something about these books makes me think of Kurt Vonnegut, although I can't quite put my finger on it...)

What I liked best about "Gumshoe Gorilla" was the sharper focus on Drew Parker, the gay gumshoe (private eye), which gives him centrality in all of the book's various plot-lines. I like Parker, and his character gave the book a strong gay presence, some thing the author might have been trying to avoid in the first book (for marketing reasons), where Parker is somewhat lost in a larger, more confusing cast.

Hartman doesn't give us in-depth character analysis, but he sketches out each of the key players well enough that we understand their emotions and their motives. A few stray threads - like the "Number Cruncher," appear and then go mostly nowhere (except to introduce another character who becomes nothing more than a crucial detail in the plot). This, I confess, is irritating, but perhaps it is also setting up the plot for the next book. (And I do hope there is a next book.)

I give reluctant credit to Hartman for not being a romantic. I am a romantic and I want everything to go that way...but the gentle, surprisingly poignant ending, made me realize how much more developed Drew Parker is than I'd thought he was. At the end of this book we realize we know this man better than any of the other characters. And we admire him, his generous spirit, and a loving soul that he himself doesn't realize he has. Surely, I hope, we'll get more of Drew Parker in the future.

I can't downgrade a review for editorial failings...yes, there are grammatical errors and typographical glitches that are annoying all the way through this...but I always resented teachers who lowered your grade for spelling or grammar and didn't credit your writing. It's about creativity, folks. Keith Hartman is a very creative writer. We must encourage him.


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Gumshoe Gorilla Keith Hartman 9781892065247 Books Reviews

Let us begin this review with a renewed claim on the publisher (there was one in my review of the first episode too) not only the editing is lousy, this has already been pointed out by the other reviewers, but how is it possible to let such a fun book go out of print? Again? Just like volume one?

This second episode is vastly different from the first one.

This time Mr Hartman employs less points of view, nearly always Drew and his partner Jen, which is an extremely fine thing because he still has not found out the way of giving each character an individual personality through his writing. As in the first episode this is particularly noticeable in the use of puns and witty remarks which are alike.

Another remarkable difference is that this time we are faced with two unrelated intrigues, far less complex and involving less characters and a more straightforward plot. It may seem a loss and maybe it is, but the book gains proficiency and focus.

This time the supernatural gore though still present leaves more room to a classical mistery.

The novel is quite long but such a page turner that you hardly realise it. It is funny and keeps you laughing silly but it has an edge, a hard one. No major villain this time, less attention to the town's complex melting pot, but if you do not get to much distracted by the wit you still notice the issues of mass media and that of the selective abortion of gay kids. Once again there is no direct statement about them, Mr Hartman leaves it to his reader to do the the ethical math, he simply displays -all too- believable facts that are likely to take place in our globalised future.

The general tone seems lighter but it is not. Once again we are lead to wonder about this future Atlanta of religious intolerance, where so-called Christians throw away the life of their gay children, where corporations globalise tastes and individuality and where the government of the biggest democracy of Planet Earth does nothing to preserve the right to happiness of its citizen, their cultural development, their well being; it prosecutes crimes such as drug using and adult prostitution (involving after all consenting adults) but allows gross social injustice and corporated crime.

Characterization is simple but well done. The matter of Drew's being a shaman and Justin Weir's death are hinted but not developped, calling out loudly for a further episode I am most eager to read.
This book is the second in Keith Hartman's Gumshoe Gorilla series (if there is indeed a series continuing after two books; one hopes so).Both books are delightfully plotted, with complex but engaging story lines, interesting characters, thoughtfully appropriate dialogue and just enough craziness to keep the whole thing bouncing along.

There is one problem Mr Hartman seems to hate the word 'of' when it rightfully pops up after the word 'couple', as in 'a couple of people' or 'a couple of reasons.' In every instance where such a construct appears, and there are dozens of them, he rips the word 'of' out of its middle position and casts it carelessly to the floor. For all I know, he may run it through a wood chipper to guarantee its demise, a paper shredder not being sufficient. There was only one time, in book two (the book to which this review is attached), where he left the—to him—offensive word in its rightful place. I will not mention the location of this anomaly lest he race there, delete the word, and order a reprint of all extant copies of the tome.

I know the source of this problem, as will anyone reading this review if s/he contemplates the laziness in diction that has become very nearly de rigeur for the younger generations. Hopefully this author will correct this issue in his next Gumshoe Gorilla mystery.

But, to be fair, with as much fun as I had addressing this issue, it is really only a pimple on the face of this otherwise beautiful book. There are, of course, a handful of typos that could easily by repaired; but one finds these in most books not written by JK Rowling.

This book is rollicking good fun, as is its predecessor, and I recommend them both to anyone looking more for enjoyment from their reading than for life lessons and deep thoughts.
"Gumshoe Gorilla" is much less of a madcap action movie than Hartman's first book, and more of a game of "Clue." There is a smaller cast of familiar characters from the first book, all of whom were active or at least mentioned via Hartman's multiple point-of-view technique. I think Hartman handles the multiple perspective well and never found it confusing. (Something about these books makes me think of Kurt Vonnegut, although I can't quite put my finger on it...)

What I liked best about "Gumshoe Gorilla" was the sharper focus on Drew Parker, the gay gumshoe (private eye), which gives him centrality in all of the book's various plot-lines. I like Parker, and his character gave the book a strong gay presence, some thing the author might have been trying to avoid in the first book (for marketing reasons), where Parker is somewhat lost in a larger, more confusing cast.

Hartman doesn't give us in-depth character analysis, but he sketches out each of the key players well enough that we understand their emotions and their motives. A few stray threads - like the "Number Cruncher," appear and then go mostly nowhere (except to introduce another character who becomes nothing more than a crucial detail in the plot). This, I confess, is irritating, but perhaps it is also setting up the plot for the next book. (And I do hope there is a next book.)

I give reluctant credit to Hartman for not being a romantic. I am a romantic and I want everything to go that way...but the gentle, surprisingly poignant ending, made me realize how much more developed Drew Parker is than I'd thought he was. At the end of this book we realize we know this man better than any of the other characters. And we admire him, his generous spirit, and a loving soul that he himself doesn't realize he has. Surely, I hope, we'll get more of Drew Parker in the future.

I can't downgrade a review for editorial failings...yes, there are grammatical errors and typographical glitches that are annoying all the way through this...but I always resented teachers who lowered your grade for spelling or grammar and didn't credit your writing. It's about creativity, folks. Keith Hartman is a very creative writer. We must encourage him.