Scan barcode
A review by mandalor3960
A Ticket to the Boneyard by Lawrence Block
2.0
I'm being a bit generous with the rating. This book finally puts Scudder in the position to be a part of the actual investigation for a criminal. Now Scudder has to worry about his own hide and he's not earning any money for catching Motley. This book places Scudder for once in the fray of it all.
The watered down confrontation that occurs at the end of this book though between Motley and Scudder wasn't as entertaining. At least the book explored Scudder's behavior towards his position of being hunted. The recurrence of previous characters is also pleasing.
Rating Update 3/12/2019 - 4 to 3 stars. I was being to generous. I definitely don't consider this book to be 4 stars now in hindsight.
Rating Update 4/6/19- 3 stars to 2 stars. And I definitely don't consider this book to be 3 stars. The ending was anticlimatic and reading mystery books bore me.
Rating Update 4 June 2019
With the adoption of my new rating system, a two star rating is befitting. As the original review and subsequent rating updates explain, the anticlimactic ending and my dislike of the mystery genre lowered the rating of this book to two stars, despite my liking of Scudder being hunted and the recurring characters.
December 30, 2019
Update
I have listed the book as a 20 type book in the "Goodreads Books 2.0" document. A 20 book type is described as follows: "Similar to the 1G type: “Usually books in genres I don’t enjoy (*cough* Mystery *cough*). These books are long and take forever to get to parts I enjoy. The buildup is way too long. It may have some minor parts I enjoyed but the buildup kills it”. Except the buildup doesn’t kill it and I am find with the lengthiness". The 2O book type is appropriate to A Ticket to the Boneyard and is in part, based on my belief of how I felt after reading the book and what I wrote in the original review.
January 19, 2020
Update
I believe that the original review does not digress on whether my appraisal for "Scudder [being] in the position to be a part of the actual investigation for a criminal". Also, I cannot recall any feelings of liking the book (a three star-rated emotion). I had ranked A Ticket to the Boneyard below A Dance at the Slaughterhouse and A Walk Among the Tombstones, a currently both rated two star-rated book. Disregarding even the rating, these are books with reviews whose extensive notes lean more to a two star-rating.
February 18, 2020
Update
Support for leaving the rating at two stars includes A Ticket to the Boneyard being ranked above Eight Million Ways to Die and Out on the Cutting Edge, both of which are two star-rated books with more support for their two star-ratings than A Ticket to the Boneyard.
June 3, 2020
Update
Because of the logic, used in the previous two updates, for rating this book, I have colored the rating yellow. The logic uses less of the original review and memories of this book, but relies more on the ranking list.
I have modified the 2O rating type and created the 2OA rating type: “”Usually books in genres I don’t enjoy (*cough* Mystery *cough*). These books are long and take forever to get to parts I enjoy. The buildup is way too long. It may have some minor parts I enjoyed but the buildup kills it”. Except the buildup doesn’t kill it and I am fine with the lengthiness.Typically there’s a good ending and I am fine with how things turned out“ There is a lot more potential in this book but it is wasted with a mediocre ending.
The watered down confrontation that occurs at the end of this book though between Motley and Scudder wasn't as entertaining. At least the book explored Scudder's behavior towards his position of being hunted. The recurrence of previous characters is also pleasing.
Rating Update 3/12/2019 - 4 to 3 stars. I was being to generous. I definitely don't consider this book to be 4 stars now in hindsight.
Rating Update 4/6/19- 3 stars to 2 stars. And I definitely don't consider this book to be 3 stars. The ending was anticlimatic and reading mystery books bore me.
Rating Update 4 June 2019
With the adoption of my new rating system, a two star rating is befitting. As the original review and subsequent rating updates explain, the anticlimactic ending and my dislike of the mystery genre lowered the rating of this book to two stars, despite my liking of Scudder being hunted and the recurring characters.
December 30, 2019
Update
I have listed the book as a 20 type book in the "Goodreads Books 2.0" document. A 20 book type is described as follows: "Similar to the 1G type: “Usually books in genres I don’t enjoy (*cough* Mystery *cough*). These books are long and take forever to get to parts I enjoy. The buildup is way too long. It may have some minor parts I enjoyed but the buildup kills it”. Except the buildup doesn’t kill it and I am find with the lengthiness". The 2O book type is appropriate to A Ticket to the Boneyard and is in part, based on my belief of how I felt after reading the book and what I wrote in the original review.
January 19, 2020
Update
I believe that the original review does not digress on whether my appraisal for "Scudder [being] in the position to be a part of the actual investigation for a criminal". Also, I cannot recall any feelings of liking the book (a three star-rated emotion). I had ranked A Ticket to the Boneyard below A Dance at the Slaughterhouse and A Walk Among the Tombstones, a currently both rated two star-rated book. Disregarding even the rating, these are books with reviews whose extensive notes lean more to a two star-rating.
February 18, 2020
Update
Support for leaving the rating at two stars includes A Ticket to the Boneyard being ranked above Eight Million Ways to Die and Out on the Cutting Edge, both of which are two star-rated books with more support for their two star-ratings than A Ticket to the Boneyard.
June 3, 2020
Update
Because of the logic, used in the previous two updates, for rating this book, I have colored the rating yellow. The logic uses less of the original review and memories of this book, but relies more on the ranking list.
I have modified the 2O rating type and created the 2OA rating type: “”Usually books in genres I don’t enjoy (*cough* Mystery *cough*). These books are long and take forever to get to parts I enjoy. The buildup is way too long. It may have some minor parts I enjoyed but the buildup kills it”. Except the buildup doesn’t kill it and I am fine with the lengthiness.