Parts Unknown

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Summary: Parts Unknown
Review: Dilmore's "Parts Unknown" truly transports the reader to the small town of Bottleneck. Details such as "His pupils darted back and forth beneath his eyelids like a pair of mice trapped under a rug" are what make the reader "see" the characters. Stories such as Bottleneck's founder Dino (who was beaten with a live chicken by the girl he promised to marry) give the book color.

Dilmore's book reminds me of Nobel-Prize-Winner Garcia Marquez's writing. Both Garcia and Dilmore write about small-town occurrences. The language may be different but the imagination is the same. For a first-time writer to evoke the same feelings as a Nobel Prize Winner shows tremendous future possibilities.

Rating:
Summary: Parts Unknown
Review: Dilmore's "Parts Unknown" truly transports the reader to the small town of Bottleneck. Details such as "His pupils darted back and forth beneath his eyelids like a pair of mice trapped under a rug" are what make the reader "see" the characters. Stories such as Bottleneck's founder Dino (who was beaten with a live chicken by the girl he promised to marry) give the book color.

Dilmore's book reminds me of Nobel-Prize-Winner Garcia Marquez's writing. Both Garcia and Dilmore write about small-town occurrences. The language may be different but the imagination is the same. For a first-time writer to evoke the same feelings as a Nobel Prize Winner shows tremendous future possibilities.

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Summary: Familiar Parts Unknown
Review: The only thing I didn't like about the book was the title - "Parts Unknown". I know these parts. I know them cause their real. That's the trick. While I know nothing about crimes, dealers and police work, I was able to clearly see the imagery and emotion. This rookie writer plays on the Carter in all of us and therefore causes a stir of familiar emotions in a setting that is anything but.

You wind up feeling at home in this setting through the author's use of descriptors that bring life to the characters. We have all stood in apartments with obligatory furniture and only one comfortable piece for the resident, local greasy spoons that leave you happy that they can only turn you off to two dishes and rooms too small for the wide screen TV that can't be seen clearly. While reading this book you become routed in real life scenery. There is enough familiarity to allow the reader to enjoy a role in a world that would otherwise be unknown.

A rookie writer - no way. First publication maybe, but it will not be his last. Thanks for the read.

Rating:
Summary: Familiar Parts Unknown
Review: The only thing I didn't like about the book was the title - "Parts Unknown". I know these parts. I know them cause their real. That's the trick. While I know nothing about crimes, dealers and police work, I was able to clearly see the imagery and emotion. This rookie writer plays on the Carter in all of us and therefore causes a stir of familiar emotions in a setting that is anything but.

You wind up feeling at home in this setting through the author's use of descriptors that bring life to the characters. We have all stood in apartments with obligatory furniture and only one comfortable piece for the resident, local greasy spoons that leave you happy that they can only turn you off to two dishes and rooms too small for the wide screen TV that can't be seen clearly. While reading this book you become routed in real life scenery. There is enough familiarity to allow the reader to enjoy a role in a world that would otherwise be unknown.

A rookie writer - no way. First publication maybe, but it will not be his last. Thanks for the read.

Rating:
Summary: Parts Unknown
Review: This is the first book by it's author,and it shows.Filled with unnessisary detail(Who cares if a waitress's apron was red and blue?)and some of the most grotesque similes you'll ever read("His eyes darted around like a mouse under the rug")With time,I feel that Dilmore could become a good writer,but right now,he should'nt quit his day job.