The Godwulf Manuscript
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“Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald”.–The Boston Globe.
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“An ambitious five-year project, the Mission seeks not merely to locate, catalogue and preserve India’s manuscripts, but also to enhance access, spread awareness and encourage their use for educational purposes.”
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I love reading mysteries. I’ve torn through John Sanford, Michael Connelly, Jeffrey Deaver, Elmore Leonard, Ross MacDonald, and the like…and so, it’s with a little shame that I admit I hadn’t read a Spenser novel before now. My mother told me that the authors I was reading now, while good, were basically following the formula that Robert B. Parker had been perfecting for the last 25 years. So rather than picking up “Potshot”, his newest book, I went to the used bookstore and found myself the first book in the series. Although a little out of my element with references to people and styles that were popular when I was three years old (the book was first published in 1973), the story crackles like any on the shelves today. I was reminded of the gritty violent world that Dennis Lehane portrays in his Boston mysteries starring Kenzie and Gennaro, and the wise-cracking wit of Robert Crais’ Elvis Cole. Of course, now I realize that these PI’s owe a great deal of their success to Spenser. The plot of the mystery in “The Godwulf Manuscript” was fair and interesting, but ultimately it is secondary to the captivating character of Spenser and the people surrounding him. I cared less about the unfolding of the mystery of where the Godwulf Manuscript went and who took it, than I did learning about the people who were involved in the deadly circumstances surrounding it. An excellent first book of a series. I’m thrilled to know that 27 more Spenser books are in my future!
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This was Parker’s first Spenser novel, and after having read most of those that follow, it was interesting and surprising to find that Spenser wasn’t a terribly likeable character in the “early days.” I like him much better in later books. He’s a sleaze in this first book! But The Godwulf Manuscript has all the Spenser-style wise-cracking, irreverent, sarcastic wit that makes me laugh as I read. Interesting plot. If you’ve never read a Spenser novel, start with this one but read the later novels too. It gets better!
Review by Neal C. Reynolds for The Godwulf Manuscript
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I just recently returned to reading mysteries, and after reacquainting myself with Hammett & Chandler, and being introduced to Michael Connelly, I naturally decided on checking out the Spenser books. Like a couple of others here, I decided to start with the beginning. First, I quite enjoyed the character, although he, in this first novel, is a bit extreme & non-discriminate in his skirt chasing. I understand that mellows out later in the series. His show of intelligence and of advanced education fascinated me. This combined with the typical wise-cracking tough guy PI attitude makes Spenser (Note, everyone, his name is spelled with two S’s) unique enough to continue following.The mystery itself was less than challenging, but the main character and the taut writing kept me going. Definitely a worthwhile read.
Review by Kinsey Millhone for The Godwulf Manuscript
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I’m a nut for reading series in order, so when I decided to tackle Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels, I started here. Now, I am definitely planning to continue making my way through the series, but if it weren’t for Parker’s sterling reputation, I don’t know that I would have been inspired to pick up Book 2 after reading “The Godwulf Manuscript.” For anyone who’s read a lot of private eye novels, this is a fairly standard tale of a two-fisted gumshoe who’s always drinking, fighting, irresistible to women, etc. Plus it’s set against an early ’70s backdrop of student rebellion which seems almost quaint now. Nevertheless, I like Spenser’s sassy first-person voice, and I’ve already started “God Save the Child.” Onward and upward!
Review by David A. Miranda for The Godwulf Manuscript
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After re-reading Parker’s first Spenser book for probably the 30th time, I am somewhat surprised at some of the reviews published in this space. Most critics agree that the first 4 or 5 books in the Spenser series are genre classics, after which the quality suffered a bit while Parker transitioned Spenser’s character into an older, perhaps more mature and stable one (somewhat like when Philip Marlowe finally settled down and actually married). As an aside, everyone, including the NYT Book Review, agrees that in Parker’s “Poodle Springs” in which he took the last 4 chapters that Chandler ever wrote of Marlowe and finished the novel, it is a seamless thread where Parker picks up and Chandler leaves off.
Therefor, if one likes Chandler (to my mind as true an American author as Hemingway), he will like Parker, especially early Parker. There is no romantic/relationship innuendi with Susan Silverman, their isn’t the racially de-compressive commaradery with Hawk; no, this is too early in the series. Plus, it is the early 1970′s after all: Spenser does sleep with both the wife and daughter of a client and is a bit rough-around-the edges. He has to in dealing with the likes of Mafia boss Joe Broz (who stayed through the series). Do people forget that Sam Spade shed barely a tear when his partner was bumped-off (and was indeed probably sleeping with his wife) – but vowed to avenge his murder. The principles and code of ethics that make Marlowe and Spenser unique men are still evident in “The Godwulf Manuscript”: he can’t be bought; he is rough yet attractive to women, yet respects them in a way that society doesn’t – in short, gallant in a time when gallantry towards women was most definitely UN-P.C.; he is a loner and an individualist; a reader, a player of chess and a gourmet cook. He also works out, drinks hard, fights well yet can quote Yeats but can’t help cracking wise.
If I ever write a letter to Mr. Parker, it would be to write one final Spenser book from when Spenser was a little rougher around the edges: pre-Susan, pre-Pearl, pre-Hawk and pre-Paul Giacomin, the boy he so lovingly basically adopted in “Early Autumn” – another one of my favorites. I want to know more of what Spenser was doing in the early 1970s and why he got kicked off the Suffolk DA’s office. I want to know him before he had his support network of loyal friends; he will always consider himself alone (except maybe for Susan), but this is when Spenser was TRULY alone….
A friend lent me this book and I was skeptical back in 1985 – I picked it up on the day I was supposed to return it to him and read it in one sitting. I have read and re-read Parker’s evolution of Spenser ever since. It is a constant source of enjoyment, even if one doesn’t like the genre (witness it’s/his popularity with women). Don’t listen to some of the half-baked reviews I was disappointed to see here – pick up Spenser and he will be a friend for life…