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A totally weak story, very little actually about Chicago or the Mob told with excruciatingly clever, opaque prose. Skip this if you’re expecting something even remotely having the same genius as Glen.


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Chicago A Novel David Mamet Books Reviews

Very boring, a very hard read.
Typical Mamet. The first 100 pages are a challenging read but once you get the rhythm, the story gets better. Still. If you’re not a Mamet fan, you’ll do well to skip this one. You won’t learn much about Chicago, and the characters aren’t engaging.
Mamet’s book is an insightful account of two Chicago journalists caught in the middle of the Capone mafia and O’Banion mafia. These two rogue journalists chase the truth through grief and despair. The book, though accused of stretching the truth, should be read by aspiring writers.
As much as I have liked David Mamet's stage and screen work, this one was pretty much unreadable. I quit several chapters into it, after trying to uncover the plot, but being stymied by the turgid language. This is no "Glengarry, Glen Ross."
TALK-TALK-TALK
This novel consists almost entirely of conversations. Despite the photograph of gun play on the dust jacket and the inside flap description of a man seeking vengeance, there is very little action in the novel itself. Some of the writing is excellent. Some of it makes you wonder if people actually talked to each other this way in the 1930s, If you are in the mood for a well written, slow moving novel, have at it. If you want a thriller, this is not it.
Most of the text is dialogue, and while the rhetorical filigrees are sometimes entertaining, they are transparently not the way actual people talk. That’s Mamet, of course, but not enough happens to make these static conversations interesting. Disappointing.
I was confused and disappointed in this multi-protagonist novel about what Mr. Mament imagines Chicago to have been in the 1920s. His historical inaccuracies didn't improve my disposition an elevated train on State Street, steel mills on the North Shore, John Ford was the guy who adapted the Chicago slaughterhouse conveyor system to the auto industry? The dialog is typical Mamet fast and obscenity laden. But the story careens from chapter to chapter, and I needed half the book to figure out what the story line was.
A totally weak story, very little actually about Chicago or the Mob told with excruciatingly clever, opaque prose. Skip this if you’re expecting something even remotely having the same genius as Glen.