{"id":14052,"date":"2014-12-03T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14052"},"modified":"2014-12-03T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:00:28","slug":"book-report-magic-by-william-goldman-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/book-report-magic-by-william-goldman-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Magic<\/i> by William Goldman (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>You might be familiar with William Goldman for a little book he wrote and adapted for the silver screen called The Princess Bride<\/em>. This book<\/a> ain’t that.<\/p>\n

Instead, this is a mid-1970s crime thriller about a magician\/ventriloquist on the verge of television success who flees from New York City to his hometown upstate because he’s afraid he might be cracking up. Then he cracks up. With a body count.<\/p>\n

I’m afraid I’ve given much of the story away, but in the book, Goldman presents it as a little bit of a mystery. He has some diary entries that are labeled as part of a police investigation; then we have some interplay between the main character and his partner; then we have a flashback to the main character’s youth and early career and how that has led him to the precipice of success and this crack-up. So there’s some suspense in what sort of crime will occur, and it’s unfortunate what does transpire.<\/p>\n

I thought the book was okay, but it does have a 1970s feel to it in the same way that 1970s science fiction does. Or is it just me?<\/p>\n

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