The "main" character, Lincoln is a quadriplegic forensics expert who relies on his love and "protegee" Amelia Sachs to be his eyes and ears at the crime scene.
I'm not sure what sort of character development went on with Lincoln and Sachs in the previous novels, it is obvious they are close and I got a feel for each characters personality but ultimately I didn’t care much about either Lincoln or Sachs.
Lincoln Rhymes remained mostly inaccessible through out the novel, whether that is by design to show how the able bodies might perceive the disabled Lincoln or by author’s omission because we might have already known all there is to know about Lincoln in previous novels, I don’t know or really end up caring.
I would read a historical novel and wonder what was true and what wasn’t; and it bothered the hell out of me. I resent it when writers use history and overlay it with a special point of view and sometimes twist or warp it.
I remember I went to the Lincoln Memorial during the time of troubles here in Washington, in the seventies after Kent State, and the impression there is of Lincoln in the temple, of Lincoln as demigod.
The Lincoln mythmakers are the ones in the forefront of those saying, “No, war was inevitable, an irrepressible conflict.” I do think that the war might have been avoided by urgent, early advocacy of something like Lincoln’s scheme of compensated gradual emancipation, and by the emergence of a few good realists in the South.
Lincoln, who was notoriously awkward and shy around women, was at the time engaged to a vivacious, if temperamental, society girl named Mary Todd, but as the date of Speed's departure and the marriage approached, Lincoln cracked.
All evidence comes from third-hand accounts that held that Lincoln became acquainted with her while she was still engaged to another man. Soon afterwards, she fell ill; Lincoln sat by her bedside for the last two days of her life.
Finally, in chronicling the proof of Lincoln's heterosexual romances, historians are split in their interpretation of his marriage to the volatile, possibly insane, drug-addled Mary Todd Lincoln.
The novel begins with a story about the death of Lincoln’s son Willie and ends with Willie’s conception – a device that neatly frames the otherwise unrelated stories that comprise the bulk of the novel.
I was curious about this hybrid of a book: you either have a novel or you have a collection of short stories (sometimes sharing a common thread), but rarely do you have both.
I could accept that; I love a good historical rewrite as much as the next person, but I was less forgiving of Braver’s portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln as a shrewish woman pushed to the brink of madness by grief.
www.curledup.com /lincolns.htm (557 words)
Amazon.com: Lincoln: Books: Gore Vidal(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The glory of LINCOLN is in its characterization of the President himself.
Despite the fact that Lincoln never intended to free the slaves, and having done so, didn't want them living in the same country as the white population, his role as hero has always detracted from his human-ness.
The essential reason to study Lincoln, however, is to be inspired by his strength of character and his courage.
Lincoln wrote many short pieces for popular magazines, especially early in his career, which he often reworked into his book chapters and verse collections.
It is the product of Joseph Lincoln, a writer unknown to the metropolitan theater and it tells of 'the quaint folk of the Atlantic coast,' presumably in the vicinity of Cape Cod and a lighthouse.
Greene sees Lincoln as a minor literary figure, with characters, plots and situations that were a defense or reinforcement of small-town protestant morality, work ethic and prejudices.
capecodhistory.us /Lincoln.htm (4760 words)
Amazon.fr : Lincoln: A Novel: Livres en anglais: Gore Vidal(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Amazon.fr : Lincoln: A Novel: Livres en anglais: Gore Vidal
It is a book monumental in scope that never loses sight of the intimate and personal in its depiction of the power struggles that accompanied Lincoln's efforts to preserve the Union at all costs--efforts in which the eradication of slavery was far from the president's main objective.
"[Lincoln] is in Vidal's version at once more complex, mysterious and enigmatic, more implacably courageous and, finally, more tragic than the conventional images, the marble man of the memorial.
In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals.
Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists.
In this, the seventh installment in the Lincoln Rhyme series (which also includes The Bone Collector, The Empty Chair, The Vanished Man, and The Twelfth Card), Deaver displays his own signature features much like his fictitious serial killer's clocks.
As much as Rhyme's irascibility, super-cunning villains, and his own broad-ranging knowledge may be counted as Deaver signatures, however; one other facet of his novels stands out even more.
That's his intricate style of work, his writing replete with plot twists – some of which are so sudden and so unexpected as to induce a form of psychological whiplash.
The Los Angeles Times calls his novels "thrill rides between covers." The New York Times hails them as "dazzling," and The Times of London crowns him "the best psychological thriller writer around." Now Jeffery Deaver, America's "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) delivers his most electrifying novel yet.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation.
As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.
Amazon.fr : The Twelfth Card: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel: Livres en anglais: Jeffery Deaver(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lincoln Rhyme, Deaver's popular paraplegic detective, returns (after The Vanished Man) in a robust thriller that demonstrates Deaver's unflagging ability to entertain.
Geneva, a wonderful character, adds feeling to the story, and there are minor personal crises faced by other characters, but as the novel's focus veers from police procedure to odd byways of American history, execution techniques and one more plot twist, the narrative loses grace and form.
Even so, this is one of the more lively thrillers of the year and will be a significant bestseller.
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