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To ask other readers questions about Mystic River , please sign up. Today, in , are there still identifiably ethnic white neighborhoods such as Irish, Polish, Italian, etc that are so common in these types of crime stories? Izzy I guess so. I live in Boston, particularly in East Boston which has kind of a large Hispanic community, but there are still some Italians here and …more I guess so. I live in Boston, particularly in East Boston which has kind of a large Hispanic community, but there are still some Italians here and there.
Boston is a farcry from Lehane's novel which is based on a Boston Lehane grew up in the 70's and 80's. Gentrification has been going on probably since like the late 80's I want to say? And it's still going on today. There probably are still some communities like these out there, but I'm sure Lehane kinda exaggerates just a little bit.
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Wrongleveeeeeeer There is almost no detail of the child abuse. The violent nature of the murder is described in police detail, but is only as disturbing as that kind …more There is almost no detail of the child abuse. The violent nature of the murder is described in police detail, but is only as disturbing as that kind of thing is, by necessity. It is mostly a book about characters--their motivations, their loves, their losses I say take your chances and get them the book. It's a great read. See all 6 questions about Mystic River….
Lists with This Book. Once upon a time, three boys were fighting in the street when two men claiming to be plainclothes cops show up. One kid gets in the car, the others stay put, and their lives will never be the same. Decades later, Dave Boyle, the kid who got into the car, is accused of killing the daughter of Jimmy Marcus, one of the other boys, and the third boy has grown up to be Sean Devine, the cop in charge of the case.
Did Boyle do it? And if he didn't, can Sean find the real killer? Yeah, was supposed Once upon a time, three boys were fighting in the street when two men claiming to be plainclothes cops show up. Yeah, was supposed to be the year of Dennis Lehane for me. It probably would have been had I not discovered George Pelecanos. However, I'm back aboard the Lehane Train now and quite pleased. While Mystic River is normally classified as a thriller, it's so much more than that, an exploration of growing up and what a traumatic childhood event can blossom into.
Mystic River is the tale of three Boston boys who grew up to be very different Boston men. Dave Boyle has drifted from job to job, never quite managing to bury his abduction experience.
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Jimmy Marcus is a former career criminal who has gone straight and become a family man. And Sean Devine is a cop with a wife he hasn't seen in over a year and a child he's not sure is his. From the beginning, Lehane kept the waters sufficiently muddy to hold my interest. None of the three leads are very simple characters. Dave's got his childhood baggage but still tries to be the best husband and father he can be.
Jimmy was once a criminal and is still a hard man but is a loving family man. Sean is a supercop but his marriage is in ruins and he's coming off a suspension for something very petty. Once Sean is on the case, the book becomes very hard to put down, like it's been duct-taped to your hands. The writing is everything I came to expect from the Kenzie and Gennaro series and then some.
I suppose I'll track down the movie now. View all 29 comments. Every adult human being has the chance to choose a personally favored path of life considering it isn't predeterminated by illnesses, accidents etc. This might be the idea which provoked Dennis Lehane to write about the abysms of humanity and the fateful consequences one single deed might release to weigh heavily upon your conscience for the rest of your life - even if it is something as simple Every adult human being has the chance to choose a personally favored path of life considering it isn't predeterminated by illnesses, accidents etc.
This might be the idea which provoked Dennis Lehane to write about the abysms of humanity and the fateful consequences one single deed might release to weigh heavily upon your conscience for the rest of your life - even if it is something as simple as not entering a certain car while you are a kid. Lehane might be more well-known because of the successful movie adaption with Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley of his thriller Shutter Island , but when it comes to exploring human minds in their deepest psychological profundities, Mystic River is where the author truly shines.
This novel which has also been adapted into a movie starring Tim Robbins, Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon focuses on three young childhood friends - Sean, Jimmy and Dave - whose friendship was changed forever when one of the boys was pulled into a strange car and had to go through something which could not be worse as an incisive childhood experience. About twenty years later, they have all grown into men with their own more or less intact families although you might as well scratch the "more or" part. The story gets going when one of the friend's daughters is brutally murdered, another one of them starts to investigate the case as a police detective and the third friend soon turns into one of the suspects himself - with very strong evidence pointing towards him.
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This is no easy thriller to get through; with his elaborate descriptions of a Boston crime scene and the complex plot twists and dynamics between the relationships, Lehane keeps the intellectual niveau on a high level throughout the entire course of the novel as he explores failing marriages, bursting families and shocking revelations. As he did with "Shutter Island", he once again managed to challenge my personal perception of what human minds can be capable of.
It might be fiction, but the author managed to write it in such a convincing way as if it was a nightmare come true. Dennis Lehane refrains from fast pace and instead relies on extensively detailed descriptions, painting a vivid picture filled with a dark atmosphere. This made it sometimes easy to put the book down again, yet all the time the book included enough potential to prompt the reader to return to reading.
You may call the novel a classic 'whodunnit' tale, but it's more than that - so much more. Mystic River might not be a masterpiece, but it's still everything you can possibly look for as a reader of crime fiction. It wasn't my first Lehane novel, and it definitely won't be my last either.
View all 33 comments. Dec 01, Trudi rated it it was amazing Shelves: Just before picking this book up - my first Lehane it won't be my last - I came across a quote by him illuminating the working-class, blue-collar nature of noir: In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. I love this quote. It slices right to the heart of who we are reading about, and even why we are reading about them.
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In Mystic River , Lehane is shooting from both barrels; he intuitively knows who he is writing about and where -- the gritty, depressed, w Just before picking this book up - my first Lehane it won't be my last - I came across a quote by him illuminating the working-class, blue-collar nature of noir: In Mystic River , Lehane is shooting from both barrels; he intuitively knows who he is writing about and where -- the gritty, depressed, working-class neighborhoods of South Boston and the largely white, blue-collar families who live there.
These are residents bound to one another when not by blood, then by loyalties forged from childhood friendships and the kinship that comes from growing up in the same neighborhood. A shared history, a sense of community, no matter how co-dependent, damaging or predatory. Lehane's characters are so vivid and three-dimensional they sigh and bleed across the pages.
But you won't love them. They are beyond flawed, and you could even argue beyond redemption. Lehane is not writing about beauty and love or hope and healing. Lehane is painting a portrait of despair and guilt. His characters are damaged goods in many ways, with painful histories that have consumed them with a slow-burning rage. The love Jimmy Marcus has for his eldest daughter Katie is primal, almost animalistic in its fierceness. When a savage beating and shooting violently rips her away from him, Jimmy vows to see her killer brought to justice, one way or another.
Who could have killed Katie Marcus? Nineteen years old, sweet and non-threatening, a good friend, a loving sister, working part-time in her father's neighborhood corner store. When Jimmy's childhood friend Sean is brought in to lead the investigation, there are more questions than answers to be found. It doesn't take long however, before Sean and his senior partner Whitey begin looking hard at Dave Boyle - another childhood friend from the neighborhood with dark secrets of his own. The handling of the mystery here, the construction, the pacing, the clues and final reveal, it's all flawlessly done.
My only regret reading this novel is that I had seen the film first. While already knowing who killed Katie did not diminish my enjoyment, I can only imagine the sheer thrill this book delivers at the moment of climax if you didn't know. I found the women in this story to be at least as interesting as the men, if not more so. Why go to the father? Why not the police? What did she think was going to happen? She knew the rules of the neighborhood. Did she really imagine Jimmy would not act, unequivocally and ruthlessly?
She signed Dave's death warrant the moment she decided to tell Jimmy what she thought she knew. She got her husband killed and unraveled her own life, perhaps even her own sanity, in one careless impulse. Jimmy's wife Annabeth is ruthless in her own way, thinking only of her own family and status in the neighborhood.
Her acceptance of Jimmy's violence, her pride in it, is practically sociopathic. Her husband won't find the cure for cancer, but dammit, he looks after his own. He does what needs to be done, like a King that rules over his realm. Her support is icky but oh so very real.
Her disdain of Celeste's weakness, and her betrayal of her husband, more revealing of character than any other act or a thousand words. It is immensely engrossing and immeasurably rewarding. I did not just love it, I lived it. A word on the audiobook: There is an abridged version available out there with a very poor reader. I listened to the unabridged version and it is fantastic.
The reader's voice is strong and he carries the Boston accent nicely without it overpowering the story. View all 24 comments. Feb 28, Kelly and the Book Boar rated it it was amazing Shelves: Find all of my reviews at: We wash them clean. Ahhhhh save it, Clint! The story here is about Sean, Jimmy and Dave. Twenty-five years ago they were rough-housing in the street when two men claiming to be cops pulled up in an unmarked police cruiser.
Sean and Jimmy went home, Dave got in the car with the men and managed to find his way back four days later. Fast-forward to the present where Sean is a detective with a wife and possible daughter who have split on him, Jimmy is an ex-con turned family man who owns and operates the corner store and Dave is someone who presents a good front, but whose past torments him more than anyone could ever imagine. If you ever need an excuse for putting your head in the oven, Lehane is an author who will deliver them in spades.
While there is most assuredly a mystery to solve, I believe most readers will find that aspect of the book takes second fiddle to the character study of these three families. A story like Mystic River can only end one way. Lehane is a master of this art and proves once again that. View all 20 comments.
Kelly and the Book Boar Yeesh! I hope it pulls you in: I'm 30 pages in and i'm sucked in for sure. Aug 28, Paul Nelson rated it it was amazing Shelves: Writing this review as I sit here watching Sean Penn discover the brutal death of his daughter, kicking myself once again because this is another book I should of read a long time ago. Just glad in a way that I also hadn't seen the film and blown a powerfully compelling ending that managed to stay just out of my grasp until two pages before the big reveal.
Mystic River is a riveting character driven crime thriller about three boys, one abducted and forever scarred with what he endured, all grown Writing this review as I sit here watching Sean Penn discover the brutal death of his daughter, kicking myself once again because this is another book I should of read a long time ago. Mystic River is a riveting character driven crime thriller about three boys, one abducted and forever scarred with what he endured, all grown up but with distinctly different futures. Shaped by circumstance, three very different characters, surviving life with wildly opposing ideals but nonetheless each one totally gripping.
Jimmy Marcus's daughter goes out one night and never makes it home, tragically killed, devastation closely follows and the hunt for a killer that cleverly shifts focus leaving deep consequences in its wake. I can feel it. One of the best, simple as. Also posted at http: View all 7 comments.
A car with two scoundrels in the road. Many years later, a murder of someone's daughter. Life had a story to tell.
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Friendship broke out in different voices. I'm not going to say much about this book. An excellent, gritty, somber, literary, psycho-thriller. The murder mystery denied me more sleep! I wanted to cry for all of them. Friendship does not work th Three young boys. Friendship does not work that way.
Sad that the ending of the book interrupted our story. This should have been a buddie-read. I need someone to discuss the ending with. You do not read this book to escape reality. In fact, you're thrown right into it with no way out, or Plan B, in sight. A slice of life dished out in no uncertain terms. He couldn't remember much of the specifics— just a few details, unconnected—and he had a sense that there hadn't been much of a narrative flow in the first place.
Still, the raw texture of it had sunk like razor points into the back of his skull, left him feeling skittish all morning. Mark my words, this quote is prophetic. View all 16 comments. Jan 15, David Schaafsma rated it it was amazing Shelves: We bury our sins here. I thought it was a great movie, seen more than a decade ago, but it is also a very great book, with real depth and passion, a story of tragic loss. Yes, it's a thriller, a mystery, but sometimes works rise above their genres, of course, to be great literature.
Shutter Island is very good, a kind of homage to forties noir films; Since We Fell deals with upper-middle-class yuppie types, and both are well-written page-turners. In the other two books there is nothing approaching the depth of character and knowledge that he lovingly devotes to this Irish Catholic neighborhood, nothing like the compassion he has for each and every one of these people. I might talk in a lightly spoiler-ish way about some of the early parts of the book—not the ending, promise—because I figure thousands of you have read this or seen it by now.
When the story opens, we see Dave abducted by two child molesters posing as cops, while he, Sean, and Jimmy are horsing around on a neighborhood street. Fast forward 25 years and Sean is a depressed cop with marital issues, Jimmy is a an ex-con on a second marriage, and Dave is pretty much an empty shell of a guy, trying to keep his marriage together and the demons at bay. When Jimmy's daughter is murdered, Sean is assigned to the case.
His investigation has him confront Jimmy, who wants to take the law into his own hands: We think we know a lot at this point, but we are going to have unravel a lot of history before we are through more than pages, but it actually reads quickly, as it is so well-written and what happens is engaging , some of the stories entertwined.
Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. The healing love of family—the love of children—is an important part of this community and this novel. But is it enough to make up for the past?
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Mystic River is a majestic but also intensely character-driven thriller that explores how a group of friends in a community can survive who are fiercely loyal, yet hampered by ignorance, lies, self-deception, betrayal and loss. Where did we expect to go? And why were we never as happy as we thought we'd be once we got there? A great day for a parade. Or is it a ritual that masks the truth, that hides real feelings? The parade follows a funeral, another moment of a communal moment of healing, we can only hope. But as with the love of family and friends, is any social ritual enough to make up for the weight of the past?
I loved this book and immediately re-ordered the film to see again. I read this masterpiece a while ago before I joined Goodreads and I've been contemplating posting a review because it's on the top of my favorites list. But for a while I wasn't sure I could say anything that could do justice to this remarkable book. Not only is it Dennis Lehane's greatest book and that's saying a lot , this modern tragedy sets the standard for all contemporary crime dramas and thrillers.
It's one of the only books that I would consider near perfect and I would recommend it to I read this masterpiece a while ago before I joined Goodreads and I've been contemplating posting a review because it's on the top of my favorites list. It's one of the only books that I would consider near perfect and I would recommend it to anyone. It's the novel that stuck with me the longest after reading it, and if I was forced to name a top favorite book, this would probably be it.
This gush of praise might not be much of a review View all 6 comments. I like them ambiguous, complicated and thought-provoking. This book is not cheap and fast entertainment: Lehane understands that we carry our parents and our childhoods along with us all the time, and he integrated that into his character development flawlessly. Dave makes his way back to his mother four days later, irreparably changed by this horrible event. Forward twenty five years later: Sean is a police detective nursing the wounds of a broken marriage, Jimmy is a reformed crook who now owns a corner store and does his best to be a family man, while Dave hops from job to job, trying to keep his marriage together and his past buried.
But they are brought back together when tragedy strikes again: What he goes through has the heartbreaking intensity of a Greek play or Russian tragedy: The red herring — that may or may not be one, is also perfectly played because it will make the uninformed reader flip-flop between what he thinks happened a few times before the truth comes out. And the conclusion is as somber as it is satisfying. I had seen the movie over ten years ago, so I vaguely remembered some parts of the plot, but not enough to ruin the book, because Denis Lehane can write!
He is obviously no stranger to the gritty reality of poor blue-collar families from South Boston, and he uses it to noir perfection to communicate the despair and anger of his characters. The way he describes people whose suffering has hardened them to the point where they simply cannot empathize anymore is chilling.
This author can do more for character development in one or two pages than others try in There was not one moment of let down or disbelief. This is a very good, gritty, tough and tragic mystery. Has to be on a top 10 of all time list somewhere. View all 3 comments.