Review: A book I had to read in chunks
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2011
I often wished I was one of those readers I'd heard about who gets so involved in the story he's reading that he "becomes" the protagonist and goes through the adventures without the squiggles and clumps of words on the page interfering with his new internal reality. It's alchemical, magical ....Now, after having finished Pete Grimm's "Old Scores", I'm not so sure it's not better, for me at least, to allow a safe distance from the antics and heroics of the protagonist, Jake Driver. He's so intense. His lifestyle tends toward the treacherous. And, when he's not fearlessly facing off with the bad guys, he's entangling himself with or disentangling himself from a seeming legion of gorgeous women who want him--some who love him--I think my nervous system demands a bit more of that safe distance.Or, put another way, instead of being one of those people who says of a book he finished that "I just couldn't put it down!"--I find myself being one who had to  put "Old Scores" down after every particularly intense scene (and there were many). At the same time I was eager, each and every time, to pick it up again and ready myself for the next emotion-jarring scene.This is one helluva good novel!