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Ratking - Michael Dibdin

 

Description: ISBN 0571154212 / Author: Michael Dibdin / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is transferred from Rome to Perugia ... more
Ratking - Michael Dibdin ... to take over a kidnapping case involving a rich and powerful family. Winner of the Gold Dagger Award.

Newest Review: ... weaknesses of the book as the even by the end of the book I still felt like I had little understanding of the character of ... more

 ... Zen. He certainly does not sit comfortably within any stereotypical Italian that I might have had which in itself is not a bad thing however the fact that I’m struggling to adequately describe his character tells you that there is something lacking in the book. He does come across as quite a reserved and quiet man and these qualities men that he does not really generate any strong feelings in the reader, he is the sort of faceless paper pusher that does not have the personality to carry a storyline particularly as the ...more

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Format: paperback (A format), Publisher: Faber and Faber, ISBN: 0
Pages: 292, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Faber and Faber - Books/S ...
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freediveheaven
Crowned Review Ratking - Michael Dibdin: Not a book about Roland Rat (1098 words)
by freediveheaven - written on 28.12.06 (Very useful, 146 readings)
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I had been looking for a new detective series to get my teeth into and after reading a couple of reviews on the Aurelio Zen character found within a series of books by Michael Dibdin I hoped that my search may have come to end and so I got hold of a copy of Ratking from my good friends at Amazon. Unfortunately I have to report that my search is not over after finding this to be a slow moving and not very inspiring read. There are a couple of positives that might make it appealing to some readers but I definitely found it to be far from a compelling read even if it did pick up a bit towards the end. The Plot The hero of the piece Police ...

sunmeilan
Premium Review The first in the Aurelio Zen series (826 words)
by sunmeilan - written on 16.03.06 (Very useful, 76 readings)
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Introduction I've read a couple of books by Michael Dibdin over the last few months and both times have been really disappointed. Both started off well; but ended up drifting to and end in a very unsatisfactory way. Having been assured by quite a few people that Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series was much better than his non-series novels, I decided to persevere and luckily hit the jackpot this time. The first in the Aurelio Zen series, this book was written in 1988. For those of you that were wondering, a ratking is not the king of a pack of rats, but refers to the situation that evolves when rats breeding in close proximity to each other begin to entwine and ...

 

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