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Maigret et l'homme tout seul
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You've got to hand it to Simenon. Here he is, a year before he's going to retire, five hundred published books, three wives, a thousand-odd casual relationships, drinking problems, all energy gone and functioning completely on autopilot, and he still manages to assemble a competent police procedural that I was unable to put down and finished in a day and a half. It's even got a good ending. I've seen this in old chess grandmasters: they can no longer calculate, their openings are several decades out of date, but their fingers know where the pieces want to be moved without any obvious intervention from the brain and they can beat strong opponents in rapid-play games. It's even more impressive in a writer.
Chapeau, monsieur.
Chapeau, monsieur.
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February 20, 2020
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February 20, 2020
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"Absolutely nothing special about this Maigret, the last-but-two in the series, but I picked it up on impulse earlier this morning and a hundred pages later am thinking that I really need to get back to doing some productive work. Damn. You've got to hand it to Simenon."
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February 22, 2020
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french
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older-men-younger-women
February 22, 2020
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too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts
February 22, 2020
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Nov 02, 2021 10:56AM
The story has a huge drawback, and that is that the riddle of the story is solved by an anonymous person who calls the killer by phone. In this story, the detective apparently did nothing and if he sat in his office, the same phone call could solve the riddle.
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Sure. But it's the atmosphere and the writing, it all just works.
You can't go wrong with Georges Simenon.
I've never read a book by him that I didn't like.
Manny, sounds like a good read. What's a good book to start with, from the beginning??
I think my favourite so far out of the Maigrets is Le chien jaune. I've read it twice, an almost perfect novel of its kind.
Another tasteful review. Oh, how I do enjoy reading them. Thank you!
Thank you Brittany! I'm afraid I also write tasteless reviews from time to time, but you inspire me to be a better person :)
A nice review, Manny! I’ve never read any books from this series, but I have watched the series on PBS.
I haven't watched any of the movie versions, but people keep telling me I should :)
Thanks, Manny! That especially touched my heart.
