radishcake February 18, 2014 Share February 18, 2014 I just started and I love it so far. Anyone else reading it? @Dave if you see this can you edit my dumb spelling mistake in Adam's last name? Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/
David T. Cole February 18, 2014 Share February 18, 2014 Fixed. :) Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-1624
radishcake February 18, 2014 Author Share February 18, 2014 Thanks! Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-1625
David T. Cole February 18, 2014 Share February 18, 2014 Not to be reductive, but as a quick guide to the tone and subject matter, it's a bit like The Professional meets The Matrix meets Dark City. It's noir but not mockingly so. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-1626
radishcake February 18, 2014 Author Share February 18, 2014 Ooh Dark City. That was a fantastic movie. Good tone. OK, I'll be reading it today so I'll pop back over after I'm done. OT: Aw now I'm remembering that PSH was in Dark City and I'm sad but also wowed that he was in SO many different things. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-1659
radishcake February 18, 2014 Author Share February 18, 2014 @Dave I would revise and say it's like the love child of Robert Parker, William Gibson, & Andrew Vachass. I really liked the non-linear reveals. It was nice that Adam gave us credit for keeping up with his plotting. Great voice for the main character and I already want to see a movie of this though the gore level might be too high. I'm already casting it in my head! Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-1697
David T. Cole February 18, 2014 Share February 18, 2014 I believe it's already been optioned. There was an article it and Denzel Washington a couple months ago. Not sure what if anything has happened since then. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-1703
radishcake February 18, 2014 Author Share February 18, 2014 Yep I did see that. I hope they would not have Denzel in the lead. I'd like to see someone younger in the role. I'd like to know how the New York felt for those who have lived there. The slow exodus of the city felt like it could really happen. I live in a big city whose nucleus has fallen apart so there are these almost ripple effects of where the money has moved here. It's a more realistic version of an apocalypse, the slow dying off of the mammoth cities. It's a stark contrast with Super Sad True Love Story and the near future it supposes. (Another book I started today) Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-1738
Tara Ariano February 19, 2014 Share February 19, 2014 In the book, the impression I got was that Spademan was in his mid- to late thirties. I think I was picturing someone like Paul Bettany, probably partly because of movies like Priest, and partly because he kind of looks like Adam. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-1750
radishcake February 20, 2014 Author Share February 20, 2014 Absolutely @Tara, he actually says he's 15 years older than Persephone so that puts him at 33. I'd like to see Paul Bettany try an American accent. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-1870
Kim February 27, 2014 Share February 27, 2014 The whole time I was reading it, I was just picturing what a great movie it would be. Such a fast moving book with not an ounce of fat. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/485-shovel-ready-by-adam-sternbergh/#findComment-2630
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