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Summary: A shocking, yet accurate story of big city policemen
Review: The movie does no justice for this, my favorite book. The story revolves around a group of inner city policemen and their off and on duty antics. "The Choirboys" shows what big city coppers endure every day,from the brutal crimes on the streets, to their ongoing battles with their own selfish supervisors and how they cope with what they see during their daily tours of duty. Wambaugh's characters (no doubt modeled after officers Wambaugh knew himself) come to life, and you will learn to love some of them, and hate others. You'll read this book laughing, feeling anger, and at times misty eyed. But you wont want to put it down.
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Summary: Wambaugh illustrates the police officer's deadly sins.
Review: There's no doubting the Choirboys is screamingly funny; but do not forget that Wambaugh spent fourteen years as a Los Angeles police officer. Wambaugh used The Onion Field to bring home the tragedy of Police Officer Ian J. Campbell's senseless murder. With the Choirboys, he shows us the deadly sins that befall officers through their careers: Obesity (Spermwhale Whalen), Burnout (Spencer Van Moot), Authoritarianism (Roscoe Rules); you get the picture. He also shows us the fraternalism of the LAPD, to the exclusion of the community, which came to spark the O.J. Verdict and the L.A. Riots as well as the in-fighting and positioning among supervisory officers. While this is submitted to the reader through comedy, do not mistake that Wambaugh pens a not-to-subtle warning for the young police officer and his or her Department.
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Summary: This book is one of the best ever
Review: This and new centurions are the best books i have ever read. If you miss it you are missing the best cop book ever
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Summary: Rude & Crude ZERO stars
Review: Twas nothing but 5th rate trash. Foul language, foul behavior. 4th grade/writing reading level. Gutter level in content. Degrading Nothing funny about amoral Cops drinkin' & porkin' everything in sight. The author claims "This is the truest novel I've ever written". Maybe so BUTT all it is is a bunch of cops(LAPD) endlessly screwin' fartin' pissin' dumpin'humpin'pukin'whorin'swearin'jackingoff schemin'on pokin'pussy............... I mean like hey, whadda you trying to say ? Nothing funny about SICK COPS! I mean like hey, whadda you trying to say ?
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Summary: The second finest novel of the 20th century. (Catch22=1)
Review: What art to make you laugh while you are disgusted AND want to cry. A true masterpiece.
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Summary: Exciting Realistic Novel
Review: What I like most about this book is that it is a realistic story of police work, written in an exciting hypnotic story line. After seeing so many "Hollywood" type stories on TV about police work, it is interesting to see the real thing.
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Summary: Wambaugh's best book
Review: When The Choirboys was published almost thirty years ago, I was a young Marine thinking of becoming a police officer. I read Wambaugh's fiction back then because it provided a unique combination of humor and truth about police work. Or at least it seemed as if it might be the truth - Wambaugh had been a cop and I hadn't. And of all his fiction, Choirboys was by far the funniest... and at the same time, its story the most tragic and bittersweet. Now I'm an old cop in a big metro area, looking towards retirement. Every couple years, I read Choirboys again. It amazes me and overwhelms me to find that it rings more true with every reading. The more I see of police work and of life, the more I realize how much humor and truth Wambaugh really was able to put into this book. It's all there: the amazing things that happen in life, some horrible, some hilarious. The camraderie, kidding, and practical jokes that cops constantly use to keep their perspective. The way Wambaugh's cops don't always like each other, but they always look out for each other. The supervisors and administrators - some good, far too many bad. It's the truest book I've ever read and gets better every time I read it. I've given away a lot of copies of this one. I'm not sure, but I believe Choirboys was written at about the time that Wambaugh was leaving police work to devote all his time to writing. The book is definitely written from the perspective of someone who is willing to burn some bridges. It is unflinchingly realistic regarding the careerism and hypocrisy that Wambaugh saw in many police supervisors and administrators, and in the politics of the department itself. But Wambaugh never preaches, he satirizes, and he makes his reader laugh out loud again and again. The bottom line is - this is the best cop book I know of. I hope you'll think so too, and I'm willing to bet that you do.
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Summary: A REAL WORK OF ART
Review: Where the police officers are human, frail, weak, brave, liars, honest...and show alkl the gamut a human being can be..ç Genial because the characters are really alive..
Funny as few.
Tragic as a Greek work...
Unique.
Absolutely Unique.
Not filled with corny and sadic killers pictures.. The very human, very real story of a group of cops..
Rating:
Summary: A REAL WORK OF ART
Review: Where the police officers are human, frail, weak, brave, liars, honest...and show alkl the gamut a human being can be..ç Genial because the characters are really alive..
Funny as few.
Tragic as a Greek work...
Unique.
Absolutely Unique.
Not filled with corny and sadic killers pictures.. The very human, very real story of a group of cops..
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