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The Broken Shore | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Temple
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 96010
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 1847240445
EAN: 9781847240446
ASIN: 1847240445
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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 Couldn't even finish it October 9, 2008
Peter Smith
I'm obviously in the minority here, but I simply couldn't be bothered to finish this book. I found the seemingly endless series of characters - many of whom seemed irrelevant to the plot - confusing and pointless. I didn't see where the plot was going, and I particularly didn't like the way the author kept referring to characters and events outside the story, about which the reader could know nothing. I didn't like the dialogue, much of which seemed 'clever' - i.e. nothing like real speech - and to me the book seemed very badly structured. Maybe I should have persevered, but in my view, if a novel doesn't grab me within the first quarter - which is about what I read - then I could be spending my time more usefully doing something else. Sorry.
 nearly, not quite September 15, 2008
wordparty
I agree with other reviewers here that this book is one of distinct halves. The first, I found very slow as many threads and clues to character and plot are set down and pace and impulse are sacrificed. The second half speeds up tremendously, but heads for a somewhat unconvincing melodramatic end.
Peter Temple has a distinctive style and can write extremely well - particularly about dogs - but I didn't feel the novel really came together in a satisfying way. The racist strand seemed to dwindle away, along with some other things.
It is not an escapist mystery story. It is hard and raw and bleak, but with a kind of redemption for the detective at the end. It establishes an interesting character, but i think, as a whole, the book is let down by its uneveness.
 Stunning May 27, 2008
S. Skudder (Spain)
I agree that this book is perhaps a little slow to develop, but the writing style is inviting and the storyline intriguing, it eventually picks you up and throws you out on a broken shore near a place called desolation! Not just a crime novel this is a must read, I was so affected by it that I had to go out for a drive - probably one of he most moving narratives I have read, it puts most of the publishers' quota pulp to shame!
great sense of place and character February 5, 2008
E. A. N. Otway (france)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a marvellous book. The main character is a bruised and battered,- both physically and mentally,- Australian detective. Like all the great fictional cops - Wallender and Bosch for example, he struggles with the demon alcohol and loneliness, but struggles to find the truth.
All the characters come brilliantly alive and the dialogue is totally realistic. I was gutted when the book ended and I realised I was in Europe, not in Australia. Such is the strong sense of place which the author evokes.
A previous reviewer has complained about the slow beginning, but why would you want to rush through such a deeply satisfying read?
just amazing November 4, 2007
Lia M. Egan (Brisbane, Australia)
I'm reading this at the moment (still have about 70 - 80 pages to go) and I actually don't care 'who dunnit'. I don't usually have much time for Australian writers but this guy is utterly mesmerising and I'm going to hunt down everything I can find that he has written. The plot is fairly basic, but the characters are incredibly powerful and the writing is utterly hypnotic. This may well be the Great Australian Noveel.
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