Hardscrabble Road: A Gregor Demarkian Novel (A Gregor Demarkian Mystery)

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When Philadelphia’s right-wing-ranting radio host Drew Harrigan is arrested for possession of illegal pain killers, he implicates a homeless man, Sherman Markey, in the drug buys, and is soon checked into a locked rehabilitation facility.

While Harrigan is away, beyond the reach of the media and the court, Markey sues him for libel and slander. With the help of a legal advocacy group, Markey is due to have his day in court…until he disappears into the city streets.

The nuns at the shelter haven’t seen him. The civil lawyers can’t find him. Now it’s time for retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian to step into the case—one that will lead Demarkian down a slippery slope of dark deeds and chilling revelation…with a killer lying in wait for anyone who dares to cross his path.

Customer Reviews:

the crowds, the noise, the PEOPLE . . . .......2007-01-15

OK, I'm a bit embarrassed to say this, but I gave up on this book. I'd read Haddam about 10 years ago and retained enough of a good taste in my mind to pick up this new novel, but here I am on page 47, and Gregor Demarkian has yet to appear; plus, I've been asked to absorb not one or two, but six or seven sets of disparate characters, none of whom has as yet had any interaction with the others or with Demarkian. All of these mostly unpleasant folk are, presumably, involved in the shock jock/faux Rush land deal and attendant court cases, but - after reading page after page of tersely brief dialogue, picking up slivers of the plot here and there, trying to remember who's on first - I failed to begin to care. Well, to be entirely fair, I DID care about the Nobel Prize, as in There Is No Nobel Prize for Mathematics. Surely everyone knows that? That's why there's a Fields Medal. Read the New Yorker or the footnotes to Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

So the non-Nobel and the cast of thousands was giving me a headache and I stopped reading. I read mysteries for pleasure. If I want a headache, I can read the catalogue of the ships in book 2 of The Iliad. It's only marginally more boring than this novel's opening decades.

The good reviews sound convincing, but for the casual turner of pages, nearly 50 pages spent waiting for the plot to emerge is a big yawn. So that makes me just like the double-digit IQ's Haddam spends paragraphs savaging, doesn't it? Fair enough.

If, on the other hand, you are fond of waiting, give Samuel Beckett a try, too.

The series is has changed somewhat since it began, but haven't we all?.......2006-09-17

There have been changes over the years in the Gregor Demarkian series, and not all of them have been improvements, but it's still a darn good series, with intricate characters and plots that deftly mingle the real world and the fictional. I am the same person I was twenty years ago, even though I'm a bit slower and fatter - but a much better saxophone player! - and my friends still like me; I believe book series and their authors deserve at least as much opportunity to change.

So what are some of the changes? One of the good ones: Bennis' flakiness and moodiness are not entertaining any more, and Gregor is beginning to realize that he may even deserve someone who is not a smoking nervous wreck; Bennis's schtick was beginning to wear on me. One of the bad ones: Father Tibor has lost most of his personality, becoming little more than a cardboard foil for Gregor. But overall, most of the characters in the series are aging well, and growing up in one way or another.

If you were to read this book without having read the rest of the series, those changes in ongoing personalities wouldn't matter to you; you'd be concerned with the plot and the ideas. So let me give you the overarching idea of this volume:
Noblesse oblige, both from those who have wealth and those who have brilliant minds, is both required and a mistake at the same time. Anyone who has gifts is obliged to try to help others, and everyone who does so attempt will be mistaken in their attempts to discern the difference between needs and wants, and in their guesses as to what the recipients of their help really think about it. The metaphor of no man being an island is used in the book, and if I may drag that metaphor out a bit, while it's true, sometimes the bridges that connect us are shaky, and many times we should have used an alternate route to get to another person, and we don't find it out until there's an smoking 18-car pileup on the road between us.

As other reviewers have noted, conservative radio blowhards come in for a great deal of bashing in this book. But so do leftist academics, and just about everyone in between. Partly, the author seems to be asking, through her characters, will you please all stop and THINK harder instead of automatically taking any party line or any opinion you are handed as doctrine, whether it be from a political party or from a religion? At the same time, though, she has a character who is brilliant and thinks everything through faster than most people could start - and he still makes mistakes; thinking everything through is not enough if you don't ever do a reality check by *participating* in a reality-based community of some sort, with other people who are not identical to yourself. And that, in turn, means not automatically identifying yourself with one group or another all the time.

Haddam reinforces this point through some of her secondary characters - Ed the lawyer, for example, who is gay, but has had to reinvent what kind of gay persona he is, because he doesn't fit into one of the gay stereotypes that even the gay community tends to categorize itself into. And of course, Sister Maria Beata, who has changed from a shark corporate lawyer to an uncommon extern sister of a contemplative and cloistered order of nuns, leaping from one community with a very rigid set of expected behaviors and thoughts to another with an even stranger set; her thoughts about what she expected, and what she got, out of this self-imposed complete change of view, are fascinating.

This isn't the first time that Haddam has made use of nuns/former nuns, and it isn't the first time that she has made them sympathetic and interesting characters, either, even though overall Haddam's attitude toward religion in general and organized Christianity and the Catholic Church in particular has been negative. Haddam has, in the past, portrayed atheists far more sympathetically and far more seriously than most contemporary fiction writers, including mentioning the Freedom From Religion Foundation in a past book; in this book, she mentions CSICOP, an organization that, while not specifically anti-religion, finds itself often taking on religion in its efforts to keep harmful superstitions and scams based on superstition and religion from gaining headway.

All that about details, and I've said nothing about the plot! Well, other reviews have pretty well covered that; my take on it is that the play-fair rules of the genre, which include "follow the money," are played fair here. We have a decent plot, with a credible resolution, and not one that winds up depending on freakish motivations or the twisted serial killers that some authors rely on. I am really tired of some contemporary authors' dependence on incredible recurring super-villains or ghastly mutants, or evil plots that in the real world couldn't be kept secret like that for more than 10 seconds. I like the realism of the mistakes that both good and bad characters make in Haddam's books, and I like that most of her characters have both good and bad traits.

In short: the plot's not the most important thing here, but it's OK; the political and philosophical ideas will annoy everyone at some point, but are worth it. The only people who won't like this volume in the series, assuming you already like the series, are those who are so rigidly committed to their own limited viewpoints that they get upset at hearing them analyzed in any fashion.

really bad.......2006-08-14

i must have read a different book. the plot was the same as the other reviews. but, i can't remember a book more filled with contempt for everyone in the world. this author pretty much calls everyone in the world stupid (except herself). the conservatives are dumber than the liberals. republicans dumber than democrats. midwesterners dumber than easterners.westerners are as dumb as midwesterners but have better accents. and southerners are dumber than all the rest. ivy-league colleges are too conservative. but just as i was about to throw this book away, the liberals took their bashing. they, it seems, aren't as dumb but are corrupt.

i guess, according to the back jacket of the book, this type of writing is sophisticated. i don't see it.

but as the author seems to think that all are stupid except her, i feel it necessary to point out that there is no nobel prize in mathematics, as a little research would have shown.

this book did improve at about page 170. the last half being a mediocre detective novel. figure the first half a 1-star and the last half a 3-star. but it just isn't worth it.

Haddam Succeeds Again.......2006-06-27

A right wing talk show host's murder drives the action. The story also involves puzzles in academia. These stories are timely and Haddam raises questions about real life as well as fictional characters. The justice of committees enforcing campus rules is examined and contrasted with common sense and the American legal ideal. Haddam entertains and provokes thought. She has her own view but respects the reader's intelligence.

Jane Haddam succeeds again in creating a real puzzle with her usual cast of characters and friendly neighborhood in the background. Long time Demarkian fans will wonder about Bennis as does Gregor. Will Bennis return?

Wesley V. Hromatko

Back to the basics and great again.......2006-06-02

If you haven't tried them yet, this is a very good, very readable, but intelligent series with strong plots, characters and more.

Gregor Demarkian is a retired FBI man of some repute who ends up living on the street where he grew up. While the street is still an Armenian-American enclave, the financial success of so many of its residents has changed it from an area of immigrant tenements to an upper middle-class community, still populated by many of the people he grew up with.

The early books of this series were fabulous, but then, as with many series, it seemed like the focus was shifting from the scenario or murder to the characters and their ongoing lives and relationships. With this book, Jane Haddam pulls everything back into place. The tension is there in the ongoing relationships, the plot is thick and twisted with no clear sense of who are the bad and good guys, etc.

A great intelligent, but fun read. Enjoy.

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The 10th volume of this excellent annual anthology series not only collects 39 stories and 4 poems in these overlapping genres, but reports on the year's best in books, movies, and other media. The horror and dark fantasy tales are by Jay Russell (family ghost), Angela Carter (fairy tale ghost), Edward Bryant (aliens), Robert Silverberg (dark goddess), Yxta Maya Murray (Southwestern folklore ghost), Thomas Ligotti (secret society), Graham Masterton (macabre recipe book), Douglas Clegg (anguished love), Stephen Dedman (child lamia who knew Lewis Carroll), Terry Lamsley (monster "pet"), Isobelle Carmody (phoenix), Delia Sherman (witches and wolves), Lisa Russ Spaar (Rapunzel), Neil Gaiman (queen bee), Philip Graham (oppressive angel), Terry Dowling (monomania), Dennis Etchison (L.A. paranoia), Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg (ravaging bears), A. R. Morlan (rock 'n' roll sleaze), Michael Marshall Smith (entrapping relationship), and Ron Hansen (magic realism). All the dark tales are high quality, and a few are among the best in the series so far.

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This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Bryant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen, and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions-all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

Customer Reviews:

Some were good, some were bad.......2003-09-17

I would give "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection" 3 stars because when I read this book some of the stories really got my attention but some stories were too dull and never seemed to get anywhere and I would go onto the story without finishing the one I was reading. Some personal favorites of mine were Tanith Lee's "The Reason for not Going to the Ball", "The Last Rainbow" by Parke Godwin and Stephen Dedman's "Never Seen by Waking Eyes" although I enjoyed many more. But I was dissapointed upon reading the story by Neil Gaiman because I usually find his stories creative and chilling. I always love Thomas Canty's artwork on all the books he illustrates and on this collection the artwork is one of my favorite he's made because it is both grotesque and beautiful. And I just want to say to the other folks that wrote in other reviews for this book who were writing how horrible it is that they should just take another look and see how much work goes into those antholigies with the writers and editors and artists and publishers and they should think about what they are saying and hope they will be more appreciative for other books like this in the future. Bravo, Terri Windling! Bravo Ellen Datlow, Bravo Thomas Canty! I look forward to more of your collaboration antholigies in the future.

Pretentious and Overblown.......2002-12-04

Ohhhhh.....Where to begin? I'll start with co-editor Terri Windling. Her opening essay on the year in Fantasy was almost enough to make me hurl down the book in irritation. If she said "Magic Realism" one more time....I lost track at 37. Unbearable. Just unbearable. I have a pretty steadfast rule that, no matter how bad a book may be, I read EVERY SINGLE WORD. Every word. No matter what. I had to skim through Windling's essay, because it was either skim or put my fist through the wall. "Magic Realism. Magic Realism. Magic Realism." Ugh.

Ellen Datlow's essay is slightly more interesting, and the sections on Media and Comic Books were very well done. Now, on to the stories themselves.

I've read a few of the previous Year's Best volumes, and it always bothered me how the book slants towards Fantasy over Horror (Terri Winling is the Fantasy Editor, Ellen Datlow the Horror Editor), but this edition is WAY over the top. Out of 35 stories, Windling's name is on over twenty. Her tastes run towards oblique, overwritten, pretentious tripe, and strange poetry. One of her selections, Gerald Vizenor's Oshkiwiinag: Heartlines on the Trickster Express put me beyond the newfound sacrilige of skimming. I actually had to skip the remainder of the story after five endless, pointless pages. I have never read such strange shizznit in my whole life. I literally had NO idea what he was writing about. Ugh. Another Windling pick (Among The Handlers, by Michael Bishop) is endlessly long, written in an awful hillbilly dialect, and is neither Fantasy or Horror, but IS god-awful. I'll avoid Vizenor and Bishop like the plague, thanks to these stories. We also get other Windling-picked classics like Birthdream, (A poem about childbirth, not Horror or Fantasy, but also awful. If I wanted bad poems, I'd get a poetry book.) Caribe Magico, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (A travelogue. For God's sake, a travelogue! Not Horror, not Fantasy...but as Windling says...MAGIC REALISM! Code for "Pretentious story that makes no sense."), and Beckoning Nightframe by Terry Dowling, about a woman who is scared of her neighbor's open window. FOR 16 PAGES! UGH. Her only decent choice is Little Beauty's Wedding, by Chang Hwang. It's an unforgettable story.

Ellen Datlow fares better in her choices. The Secret Shih Tan (By Graham Masterson), Never Seen By Waking Eyes (By Stephen Dedman), and the grotesque Three Bears pastiche "Ursus Triad, Later" (By Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg) are all incredible, and I'm glad to have discovered writers I wasn't familiar with, but the overall feeling I had when reading the book was one of irritation with the all-encompassing pretentiousness of the package. I'd say the stinky outweighed the good by 90%. I'm VERY sorry that I've already purchased the next four volumes....But at least I've learned to skim & skip!

Interesting, But Not Very Horrorific.......2001-06-15

Interesting collection of writers, some famous and some unknowns, but all in all not a real page turner. Some stories I couldn't even finish I got so bored. Some were so good I got goose pimples. Go figure.

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Based on the nation's #1 bestsellerPublished in January 2004, The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide has sold more than three million copies and has continuously topped national bestseller lists. An essential tool for success, the completely revised and updated guide will feature a new, more user-friendly format and an expanded list of foods, as well as the most up-to-the-minute new information on nutrition and healthy eating to aid the now millions of early adopters.The new edition will include:o An expanded nutritional breakdown: total carbs and net carbs, total fat and saturated fat, fiber, and sugar.o More food listings including meal replacement bars, other convenience foods, healthy fast-food menu items, and beverages.o FAQs organized by phase and designed to answer dieters' most common questions.o A foreword by Dr. Agatston detailing new research and outlining the changes to the diet.o Each food listing will now have a recommendation by phase. For example, bananas might be a food to avoid in the first 2 weeks of Phase One but will be a food to enjoy in Phase Two.

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Good Information.......2007-09-13

This book is a great reference guide, especially for beginners. It works for me.

Very Helpful.......2007-08-01

This little book is very helpful for a quick reference guide. Highly recommend to anyone on the South Beach Diet.

South Beach Supplement.......2007-07-19

Not exactly what I expected. Pretty small book, but good reference charts in there for lots of kinds of foods. A good guide for those committed to the diet for the long run.

Easy to use with other cookbooks!.......2007-06-16

This guide is fantastic for various reasons, as many have mentioned. My main use of it has been in connection with other cookbooks not specifically meant for the South Beach Diet. I love Italian food and have cooked out of "The Silver Spoon" for a long time. When I went on the South Beach Diet, though, I was terrified - no carbs meant no pasta! When I got my hands on this little guide, though, I was saved. Now I can flip through my Italian cookbooks and, in conjunction with this little volume, I can choose meals that fit my diet. Also, if I need to, I can use this book to replace some ingredients which may not be diet-friendly. A fantastic book and a definite winner!

Handy Dandy.......2007-04-11

This Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide is just the thing to leave on your kitchen counter. I do, and refer to it constantly! The first part of this little book describes the South Beach Diet. Next, an outline of how to use the Food Guide. Then the food guide itself. Easy to read, and use. This guide is a must for anyone on the South Beach Diet. And, even if you aren't, but watching your fats and carbs, it's amazingly useful. I am having greater success, and much less stress adapting to this healthy lifestyle, thanks to this guide.

South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide: the Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foods

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The South Beach Diet has exploded on the diet scene, going beyond a mere low carb diet, defining the new category of the smart carb diet. Unlike other crash diet programs, this weight loss program designed by Dr. Arthur Agatson provides a healthy food plan you can follow for life. The best part of this diet is that belly fat, the most dangerous of all fats, comes off first. So you'll look better and feel better almost immediately after starting the South Beach Diet. The eating plans are simple to follow and it's easy to create delicious, healthy meals for your whole family.

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Sweet Marias Italian Cookie

Seriously - the best cookie book you can buy

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Sweet Maria's Italian Cookie Tray: A Cookbook
Maria Bruscino Sanchez
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Growing up in a close-knit, Italian American family, Maria Bruscino Sanchez was surrounded by tradition: food, customs, and celebrations from the "old country" were lovingly observed, and if the original meaning was sometimes hidden beneath the patina of a new culture, the respect and desire to stay connected to the past remained. As an adult, Sanchez turned family tradition into her livelihood, opening Sweet Maria's bakery in Waterbury, Connecticut, where she re-created the cakes and cookies of her youth--but with a distinctly American twist. With Sweet Maria's Italian Cookie Tray, Sanchez offers her culinary treasures to an even wider audience; recipes range from drop and molded cookies to filled ones, biscotti and biscuits, taralle and pizelles, and many more. Cookie lovers will find plenty to devour in this compilation of Italian American favorites.

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Sweet Maria's Italian Cookie Tray presents sixty-five recipes for the delicious, festive cookies that brighten every Italian home, at the holidays and all year-round.Maria Bruscino Sanchez opened Sweet Maria's bakery when she was just twenty-six years old, specializing in authentic Italian cookies and cakes made from handed-down family recipes.The result has been a booming business, and this very special cookbook.The irresistible reciples range from drop, molded and filled cookies; biscotti; taralle and biscuits; pizelles, and more.Easy to prepare and perfect for any occasion (or no occasion at all) they include:Chocolate Almond Macaroons, Pignoli Nut Cookies, Amaretto Biscotti Sesame Cookies, Almond Crescents, Lemon Drop Cookies, Chocolate Puffs, Florentines, Lady Fingers, Sweet Ravioli Cookies, Christmas Honey Clusters, Angel Wings, Cinnamon Nut Bars, and more.Whether you grew up in an Italian home or just wish you did, this wonderful collection is sure to become a cookie lover's favorite--one you will return to again and again.

Customer Reviews:

Sweet Marias Italian Cookie.......2007-08-29

This is a fantastic cookbook. I am Italian and did not write down all the recipes I should have and have been looking for a simple book. I read all the reviews and the biggest objection is the lack of pictures. Well I appreciate the price of the book and believe pictures would push it up. If the cookie looks fine to you and your family then rejoice. I have other books that put extra gourmet ingredients that do not improve the taste enough to warrant their infusion. One cookie we always baked at Christmas is the Cherry x-mas cookie. We have added other ingredients to make them even more festive such as chocolate chips, pineapple chunks and cocoanut. Love this book!

Seriously - the best cookie book you can buy.......2007-08-23

If there was a rating higher than 5 stars, this book would get it! Every cookie recipe I have tried has been a hit at family and work functions. And easy!! Simple instruction, readily available everyday ingredients make this cookbook a GREAT stocking stuffer for the holidays. I've owned this book for several years and LOVE IT. Recently purchased another copy for a relative. You will be able to toss the bulky 500+ page cookie book that is probably stored away in a cabinet collecting dust and keep this one right on your counter because I promise - it is all you will need!! I have all of her books and they are ALL worth getting.

Lacking Photographs.......2007-03-15

I purchased this book for my Grandmother. She liked the recipes in the book, but she wished it had more photographs of the actual cookies. There are a few, undetailed illustrations, but no reference photos.

Sweet Maria's Italian Cookie Tray.......2007-01-10

A great assortment of Italian cookies. Lots of ones I use to sample at weddings in Pa.

Fantastic.......2006-08-13

A wonderful cookbook,with very easy to follow fantastic recipes, Congratulations Maria for sharing so much of yourself and your family in this lovely book

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