Tabloid City: A Novel Audiobook

" Good action story and info about the newspaper business, but you had to be a senior New Yorker to enjoy the many trips down memory lane. "

" Great read. Beautiful, ugly, poignant descriptions of New York and our society. "

" An excellent look back at the NYC newspaper trade, personalities, and culture, but a very convoluted, improbable mystery wrapped around that. I prefer Hamill's nonfiction. "

" I liked the book, but it is not a read for everyone. I liked the bouncing from character to character; I felt like I was in a race, speeding to the end. The author pulled all the pieces togther, which gave the story the finality it needed. Not a happy story by any means,but very true to life. "

" I like Pete Hamill's writing but I couldn't get through this one. I won't finish a book that is boring me when there are so many books I want to read. "

" Excellent gritty NYC whodunit set in the present day in the shadow of the dying newspaper industry. "

" Pete Hamill never disappoints. I enjoyed this story about newspaper publishing in the age when digital media reigns. "

" Intriguing links between characters. Interesting insider view of news world. Well plotted mystery elements. "

" This was a really excellent book. I wish I could write like this. The plot was interesting, and the characters were drawn amazingly well. I look forward to reading more Pete Hamill books. "

" Amazing. A wonderful, skillful blending of narrative memoir, thriller, and the stories of our times. "

" I liked the book,but not as well as his other books. "

" This starts with a disparate collection of characters but they intersect pretty quickly. It's a very atmospheric read. You can tell Hamill is a New Yorker; it seeps out of his writing. The events are dramatic but he keeps it on a very personal level. "

" A rather predictable story of the grimy underside of New York that is written in a very different way. An easy read after plowing through the Woodward book. "

" Disappointing. Reminded me of the movie Crash with characters intersecting in unexpected ways but ultimately the story itself wasn't very interesting. "

" Compelling novel about NYC after the financial crash. Couldn't put it down. "

" It's just what I read Pete Hamill for - a nostalgic, gritty, sentimental and well-paced story. Not his best work, but still enjoyable. "

" This is my first experience with Pete Hamill's writing. I thought it was fantastic; visceral and sharp. Hamill has a great skill of really making the reader feel the emotions of his characters. Oddly melancholic, but lovely. "

" Nobody knows the newspaper business and NYC like Pete Hamill. This is a great read from a man who remembers when the NY Post was a real newspaper. "

" Some characters seemed superfluous, but the tidy arrangement of chapters (one per character) helped me keep track. Embodied the movement of the city, the constant emotion and planning taking place behind the "public face" that every city dweller maintains. "

" This book started a little slowly, perhaps due to the writing from many different character viewpoints, but it built to an interesting and exciting climax. Good story; I almost always like a New York tale. "

" My first Pete Hamill book. The man can write. Liked the episodic structure with different characters. Reminded me a lot stylistically (and setting) of The Wire (TV series) which I loved. "

" Read the whole thing, waiting for some climactic ending, and was very let down. About half of the characters were unneccessary. "

" Hamill is an excellent writer, but this book jumps around from person to person so often, that it takes a while to figure out how it all comes together. Once you do, the story is good. A little less jumping around, and this would have been a really good book. Liked his other books better. "

" No surprises in this novel, but lovely wrought characters. A very pleasant and enjoyable read, if you, like me, love New York and newspapers. "

" Nobody knows the newspaper business and NYC like Pete Hamill. This is a great read from a man who remembers when the NY Post was a real newspaper. "

" As most reviewers have said, this is a book about New York City and the vanishing world of both New York and newspapers. It was interesting to read because of both those story lines. The plot was almost incidental. "

" read this while in NYC which was fun since the locations he mentioned were real for me.<br/>Demise of print media and it's effects on the people who have worked in that universe. Interesting characters.<br/> "

" Pete Hamill is a man in love. In love with the city of New York and the dying art of newspaper journalism. He know both with all their flaws and writes about both with lyrical prose, verging on poetry. I slowed down in reading this to savor the words and stay with the characters as long as I could. "

" No one writes about New York Like Pete Hamill. While not one of his best, this novel is full of wonderful characters with depth and quirks. "

" A really great book about a folding afternoon newspaper as a murder brings together a cast of characters from the victims and the cops to the editor of the paper, a terrorist and a criminal. "

" I liked the book, but it is not a read for everyone. I liked the bouncing from character to character; I felt like I was in a race, speeding to the end. The author pulled all the pieces togther, which gave the story the finality it needed. Not a happy story by any means,but very true to life. "

" What I considered a four star novel became less so due to the highly implausible ending and the ridiculous number of coincidences. Loved the descriptions of the city and of the death of paper journalism. "