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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780964210769
ISBN number: 0964210762
Label: Think Fast Ink
Manufacturer: Think Fast Ink
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 705
Printing Date: 2006-05
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If you like racing particulaly that in the past - this is outstanding. It is fair to say that too much of it is being told to you through somebody else - but that is the only way to do it and it is masterfully done. Simply - I loved the book.
I would like to know who some of the characters are based on - but one of the phenominal things about the book is that so many of the charachters are real people that even a devoted racing fan was not familiar with. A great read!!!
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This book can't hold a candle to any of Levy's very first 3. I found it to be exceedingly boring, and owning and having read all of Levy's books, I doubt very much if I will buy his subsequent one!!!
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Good continuation of the Last Open Road series. I enjoyed it very much.
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Kinda long, but yet another wonderful tale. Don't keep us waiting too long to see what happens next!
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Other reviewers have decried the relative weakness of the Buddy Palumbo and Big Ed Baumstien characters in this book, and rightly so. Buddy's humanity and Big Ed's worldliness certainly spiced up the very first three books and made the fictional component interesting and unpredictable.
Some sections of "Toly's Ghost" read more like a non-fiction, with the fictional characters merely discussing the events of the day. I did find it interesting how Levy communicated the character's feelings about things that were going on in racing and in the world at large. The historical accounts and the fictional character's reactions to them have an interesting symbiotic relationship in this book that I can't recall being as pronounced in prior books in this series.
Some of my enjoyment of this book was in figuring out who the fictional characters are based on; I have an idea who Cal Carrington and Gina LaScala are based on but I won't tip my hat as I have a feeling that will be more obvious in the subsequent book.
Levy does something very artful with the Toly Wolfgang character (based loosely on real-life Ferrari driver Wolfgang Von Trips); he paints him as an aristocrat with a shadowy past but in spite of this, the reader becomes hopeful that Toly will win the world championship in spite of his "outsider" status in the world of International motor racing.
There are many other characters in this book that are noteworthy- I found them interesting because they are strugging with motor racing's passage from a sport of and by gentlemen to a business venture.
Overall I feel "Toly's Ghost" is well worth the time for anyone to read and savor; not only on its own merit as a fine piece of historical fiction, but also because it is likely a bridge to Levy's subsequent series of books which likely will cover motor racing's most spectacular and tumultuous era.
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