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Play It Again |  | Author: Stephen Humphrey Bogart
Publisher: Forge
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2996397
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0812551621
EAN: 9780812551624
ASIN: 0812551621
Publication Date: June 1996
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Leaving behind his life as a New York City matrimonial detective, R. J. Brooks is forced to confront the ghosts of his past when his beautiful and celebrated mother is murdered in a Manhattan love nest. Reprint.
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Affluent detective moans the truth about celebrity April 7, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bogart's first novel about fame, fortune and the misery of being the child of celebrity parents is witty and colorful. The most interesting character is the female reporter that he warns himself not to fall in love with, she's a radical feminist and well, he's never had one of those before. R.J. Brooks and his secretary have a snappy yet somehow flat repartee that shows his true character: lazy, spoiled, self-indulgent and not concerned with the feelings of the people around him. Although the character is drawn from Stephen Bogart's own life and his parents' movies, the book moves slowly unless you know the artist and can hear him talking. I doubt Mr. Bogart has ever been to the opera, owned a red tabby cat or dated a feminist. I doubt that these were original ideas. I doubt that R.J. Brooks, as portrayed, would have figured-out the crime without more adventures. Sometimes it seems that Bogart was being paid by the word. The momentum builds in the final scene when the writer seems to slip away from some pre-programmed tape recording. He should stick with what he knows. I don't think he's a natural to write fiction, however, if he would like to share his own life glossed over as fiction, he'd do better intriguing us with that. He can be, in person, a natural wit and this is not evident in the character of R.J. Brooks. The you're gonna take it and you're gonna like it works well for him in person, yet needs stronger descriptions in the book to come alive.
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