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Title: Sunburn
Author: Laurence Shames
Narrator: Richard Ferrone
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-06-11
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 55 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Listeners across the country have fallen in love with Laurence Shames rollicking national best-sellers set in South Florida. Energetic, forceful and unpredictable as a hurricane, Sunburn is filled with off-beat characters, top-notch suspense, and colorful dialogue. When aging Mafia godfather Vincente Delgatto flies to Key West to get a little sun, he decides to write his memoirs. When word of the book hits the street, everyone is in danger, even the octogenarian former enforcer Bert the Shirt and his cranky chihuahua.
Members Reviews:
Still waiting for a laugh
Would you try another book from Laurence Shames and/or Richard Ferrone?
No, don't think so. This was just not what I was led to believe it would be.
What was most disappointing about Laurence Shamess story?
It is no where close to Hiassen or Dorsey's humor, or characters. The story just rambled, hard to tell who was who. Best part of whole book was when the dog pooped.
Would you be willing to try another one of Richard Ferrones performances?
Hard to say, for free, maybe.....he just did not give the characters real voices.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Sunburn?
The whole book? While the storyline is a good one, the writing just did not follow through.
Any additional comments?
I have very rarely given a truly bad review. So I hate to write this one. However, I must say this book was nothing close to a Hiaasen or even Dorsey. I found literally nothing humorous in the book at all. The characters all ran together, nothing stood out at all. The narrator either couldn't or choose not to use different voices for each one, so you could not tell who was who.
Do I think I would listen to another Shame's book? I really don't know. This storyline could have, should have been funny. Really. But after this listen, I think I will shy away from another one by this author.
Thoroughly enjoyable
Delightful characters that make me think of Elmore Leonard, Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen. Warm and witty definitely describe the tone of Shames writing.
Excellent narration
Warm, wise, witty: Shames's glorious world.
Laurence Shames and Richard Ferrone are once again a wonderful team. Key West is again the setting. The story centers on Vincente Delgado, the aging capo di tutti capi, and his family. His bastard son Joey Goldman, his full-blood son Gino Delgado, his retired consigliere Bert the Shirt, and more: This world is created and sustained throughout a sustained comic but serious tale of aging, family ties, romance, danger and surprise. Shames is one of the funniest authors in my experience, and one of the few who can create a full-length novel which is a perfect mix of suspense, humor, love for his characters and with no phony deus ex machina artifices. The FBI is involved, but only in a peripheral way. The godfather decides to write a book in his waning years, and he recruits a Key West newspaperman, Artie Magnus, to ghost-write. Gino brings a bimbo, Debbie, down to the keys with him, and everything Gino touches turns to dreck. Everyone gets involved in the dangerous cleanup. The wisdom of the Godfather and of Bert the Shirt are touching and painful: two Sicilian guys who had no real choice but to follow in the path of their fathers and grandfathers. Richard Ferrone once again is spectacular. All of his voicings are consistent with who we think these people might be.