Painted Ladies: A Spenser Novel

Parker's story is o.k. but the reading was just bad. EVERY single conversation exchange was "sentence," I said, ""sentence," she said. With only two people present, surely one could follow the conversation without the I said, she said. And never asked, even if it was a question! I can't believe Parker wrote his book like that. Pretty soon that was all one heard. And, while I'm fussing, WHY can't the reader say "end of disk" and "Disk 2" etc. I listen in the car and have no idea when a disk is ending.

I love all Robert Parker books, & I love Joe Mantegna's voice, but....I hate that there are so many "she said, he said, I said". It gets to be very annoying after every phrase. Other than that, its a great book!

The story is really good but annoyingly written in the 1st person. The prose is like listening to a teenager's conversation with tons of "then he said" and "I said"... towards the last half, I really had to tune this out. I like Joe M. as an actor but prefer the style of other readers that use voice inflection, cadence and other nuances for the different characters. An excellent store told by Uncle Joe over a pot of coffee...