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Jerry Jay Carroll

Auteur van Top Dog

7 Werken 278 Leden 14 Besprekingen

Werken van Jerry Jay Carroll

Top Dog (1996) 111 exemplaren
Inhuman Beings (1998) 76 exemplaren
Dog Eat Dog (1999) 56 exemplaren
The Horror Writer (2017) 4 exemplaren
End Times (2019) 3 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
20th century
Geslacht
male
Woonplaatsen
San Rafael, California, USA

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First, this was an enjoyable read. The first half of the book was by far the best. I loved the unique perspective from a dog's point of view. That was well executed. My disappointment was the Christianity woven through the second half. One can tell a great story of the battle between good and evil without the Christian myth. My major complaint does not have to do with the story but rather the crappy job the publisher did. I read the paperback edition from Swaggering Press, 34 Segovia Drive, HSV, Ark 71909. I have never read a book with more misspelled words, crappy grammar, and sentences so poorly written that they were unreadable. If a middle school student tried to pass such poorly written and edited prose off as an essay they could only expect a failing grade. Swaggering Press has no reason to swagger and did this author a major disservice.
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lynnbyrdcpa | 7 andere besprekingen | Feb 18, 2023 |
I absolutely hate the ending. It is as if the author got bored with the book and did not care to bring it to a satisfying ending.
 
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lynnbyrdcpa | 1 andere bespreking | Feb 18, 2023 |
Detective novels are nothing new, and neither are invaders from beyond stories, but you don't get many crossbreeds of the two outside of the hardcore futuristic sci-fi realm. In this regard, Inhuman Beings is an enjoyable treat.

Carroll's novel is tightly written, short and sweet the way detective novels should be. He doesn't skimp on the characters or back story, just the excessive pages of prose some authors veer off in to explain it.

It may seem unusual to complain about getting more than you asked for, but that is my major problem with the novel. The book description promises a lone detective suddenly involved in a subversive alien invasion, and Carroll delivers the goods right away, keeping a steady pace and developing the dangers at a quick and steady pace. However, the third part of the book changes gears with the involvement of government officials that eventually buy into the main character's claims of an alien attack, and a story of a lone man against insurmountable odds becomes a low-budget retelling of Independence Day or Invaders from Mars. It isn't exactly a bad change, but it was the former story I read the book for, not the latter.

Also, as good as the book is on keeping the reader interested in the main character, this is mainly due to the pace and tension his lone crusader status affords him. As soon as he becomes part of an underground force battling the aliens, the tone and feeling of the book is lost, along with a great deal of the tension.

In short, I enjoyed the book that I first picked up to read, but it wasn't the same book I eventually put down.
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smichaelwilson | 1 andere bespreking | Aug 25, 2021 |
5718. Top Dog, by Jerry Jay Carroll (read 13 Nov 2020) Somehow this book got into my house and though I had never heard of the author of the book I decided to read it. When I found it told of a man who had turned into a big dog, I thought of The Dog Days of Arthur Cane, a book I read 4 June 2006 and had good memory of I so I decided to keep reading--I usually finish a book once I start it. But the book turned into a fantasy, with the dog being in an unidentified place with weird names of people like "Two Legs" and characters like Mogwerd, apparently a kind of person, though the book was vague in regard to what they were. The dog looks like a dog and is the narrator of the book. As a dog he cannot be understood by humans but he usually is able to make them understand what he wants to do. He remembers and thinks about food he had, when he was a big wheel dealing with the stock market and corporate takeovers in New York, with a wife who did not love him but loved his great wealth. As a dog he comes to feel he should be on the side of good and oppose evil--as a man he only wanted to make money regardless of the right or wrong of what he did. The book was published in 1996 or 1998 but there are a few references to Donald Trump, who moved in the circles the narrator did before he became a dog. After about 9 months he gets back to being a man but has no interest in being the kind of guy he was before. I found the long account of the dog being in the fantasy world really not engaging and would never read anything more by Jerry Jay Carroll.… (meer)
 
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Schmerguls | 7 andere besprekingen | Nov 13, 2020 |

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Werken
7
Leden
278
Populariteit
#83,543
Waardering
½ 3.5
Besprekingen
14
ISBNs
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