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Mark Coggins

Auteur van The Immortal Game

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Werken van Mark Coggins

The Immortal Game (1999) 55 exemplaren
Runoff (August Riordan) (2007) 23 exemplaren
Candy from Strangers (2006) 22 exemplaren
The Big Wake-Up (2009) 14 exemplaren

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Woonplaatsen
San Francisco, California, USA
Opleiding
Stanford University (BA | 1979)
Stanford University (MS | 1988)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Barry Award nominee (First Novel, 2000)
Shamus Award Shortlist (Best First Novel, 2000)
IPPY Nominee (Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, 2000)
IPPY Bronze (Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, 2007)
Next Generation Indie Book Award (Mystery/Suspense 2008)
Korte biografie
Mark Coggins is the award-winning author of the August Riordan series, featuring jazz bass-playing private eye Riordan. The San Francisco Chronicle has labeled his work, "smart, stylish, sexy" and Riordan "enjoyably jaded ... delicious."

His latest novel, The Big Wake-Up, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, who said of the book, "Outstanding ... Coggins pulls no punches." Mark lives in San Francisco with his wife Linda and their cat Taki.

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This was a good evening's entertainment. Written in the voice of Watson, it captured the feel and spirit of the original tales.

I have a bit of a quibble with the assumption that this case proves certain things about Sherlock's sexuality, but that would be spoilers. Despite the content, it is handled in the way I would imagine an author from the late 1800s would speak of such a subject, if they spoke of it at all.

I will check out some of the author's other stories, this seems like one written for a collection of short stories, or on a dare from some friends or perhaps a writing exercise to see how close one could mimic the original author. Whatever reason, it was a fun read for me.… (meer)
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MrsLee | Jan 23, 2020 |
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I won this thru Library Things member giveaways. I really liked this book and loved the author’s sense of humor. I would recommend this to anybody who needs a good laugh. I am so fortunate to win one of these books.
 
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lg4154 | 4 andere besprekingen | Mar 3, 2013 |
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This was a highly entertaining collection of memoir short stories from throughout the author's life. With self-deprecating humor and occurrences that I thought could only ever happen to me, this book was definitely a breath of fresh air. It's so nice to know that I'm not the only crazy, hapless person on this planet. Although I'm not sure that I would dress up like a chicken when greeting my significant other at the train station...yes, the author did that, and even included a photograph as proof!! On the other hand, the story he told about working at his grandfather's "ranch" was totally a situation that I would find myself in. Just like the author, if I'm told to fix something or if I manage to break something (in his case it was a giant tractor), then I do everything in my power to get it done any way that I can...even if with hindsight, the methods used were completely ridiculous and possibly even death-defying... I'm definitely not one to be told that I'm not capable of doing something. Basically, he used tools that were never meant to be used on a machine of that size and had to use quite a bit of elbow grease to make it all work - of course it did in the end. Never doubt the power of belief that you can accomplish a crazy feat with only a few flimsy materials to work with...lol. Oh yeah, and accidentally setting an entire open weed and thorn infested field on fire...very akin to a certain thing that happened a few years ago to me...and...my brother...that...well...I just don't talk about it... Anyway, Mark's stories range from tales of love gone terribly wrong (can definitely relate there), stupid ill-thought out ideas (once again, sounds familiar), and, as I just mentioned, death-defying determination to pull off crazy stunts. There's something for everybody in this collection and I highly recommend it!
As to the author himself, I received a hardcopy in the mail that was signed by him right before he mailed it off and had a hand written note placed between the pages. He even responded very thoughtfully to a question I posed on LibraryThing's author chat. It's such a cool thing to actually interact with the authors of books you read!!

Note: I won this book as part of a Member Giveaway on LibraryThing, but all the comments above are 100% honest.
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ThriftyMorgana | 4 andere besprekingen | Jun 4, 2012 |
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While I don't think that I am the intended target audience....
I enjoyed the book but I didn't love it. The writing is good, in fact so good I'll check out his fiction.

But this book didn't make me remember embarassing times of my own and laugh. It didn't make me laugh with him, or even at him. I just felt sorry for him.

Sorry Mark. Great writing... just didn't love the subject matter.
 
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RARichard | 4 andere besprekingen | May 29, 2012 |

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