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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro.  mulliner | Nov 15, 2009 |  I have come to the conclusion that Dan Simmons doesn't know how to write a bad book. Some authors...fade...over time. Simmons is consistently good, regardless of the genre he's writing. This novel is firmly planted in the thriller category, and is obviously set up for sequels. Sometimes that's a bad thing, but the characters Simmons establishes here are likeable, quirky and interesting. Just enough of their back story is revealed to give their personalities depth and substance without being beaten over the head with exposition. I'll be more than happy to read any subsequent novels featuring Dr. Darwin Minor and his adventures in accident reconstruction. Oh. And the story is good too! Mucho mayhem and excitement, some laugh-out-loud funny dialogue, a little romance, a lot of intrigue...nearly perfect. Read it. (  ) avanta7 | Apr 25, 2009 | hyperpat | Dec 6, 2007 | Having enjoyed Ilium and Olympos I was surprised by how cliched and dull is Darwin's Blade. Maybe it gets awesome after page 185, but that's where I gave up. A vehicle-accident analyst, haunted by a tragic past (dead wife! dead baby!), gets into spectacular car chases in his high-performance sportscar while dodging bullets from the Russian maffia. Meanwhile, yawn-worthy sexual tension mounts between our hero and a female detective. Some boring stuff about insurance fraud. Stilted dialog, unbelievable characters who seem to have no inner life but just do stuff that moves the plot along. Felt like I was reading a halfhearted book rendition of a mediocre action movie. Instead of 0 stars, I give it 1 star because it contains math formulas along with an explanation of the forensics of a hit-and-run accident, which I thought was kind of cool. (  ) juniper | Jun 24, 2006 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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The country's foremost accident investigator, Dr. Darwin Minor, reconstructs automobile accidents for his friends, Lawrence and Trudy Stewart, whose firm specializes in uncovering lucrative, yet unremarkable, insurance fraud. Odd, then, that two Russian hit men in a souped-up Mercedes E 340 attempt to murder Dar in a 160 mph car chase that results in an airborne Mercedes and two dead Russians.
Sydney Olson, the California state's attorney's chief investigator, who's investigating an accomplice-murdering fraud ring, plans to release a story highlighting the Russian mafia's involvement and Dar's name, and then to spend a lot of bodyguard-time with Dar.
Dar returned her challenging gaze. Suddenly she did not look like Stockard Channing to him anymore. "You're staking me out like that goat in the dinosaur movie... Jurassic Park."As the bond between Dar and Sydney grows, so grow the assassination attempts, a gruesome body count, and the realization that a state-wide charitable organization funded by the country's most famous defense attorney is behind the murderous ring."Exactly," said Sydney Olson, smiling openly at Dar now.
Lawrence raised his hand like a schoolboy.
"I just don't want to find my friend Dar's bloody leg on my moon roof someday, okay?"
With its tight plot, memorable and likable cast, and brisk, intelligent narrative, Darwin's Blade has "series" written all over it. Better make room on the Edgar dais now. --Michael Hudson
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Mind you, this is one Simmons' thrillers. I absolutely adored his science fiction/fantasy novel, Hyperion.