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Put The Sepia On Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 30, 2014
- File size891 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B00JDBETTK
- Publisher : Amazon (March 30, 2014)
- Publication date : March 30, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 891 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 35 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,997,406 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Nick Feldman writes books about tough women, drunk men, and people who wish they were in Humphrey Bogart movies. When he's not doing that, he appreciates tough women, whiskey, and Humphrey Bogart movies.
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Customers find the story enjoyable and well-crafted. They appreciate the engaging characters and witty humor. The visual quality is described as vivid and realistic, with a dark tone that fits the narrative perfectly. Readers describe the book as a quick, easy read with a voicey and brisk dialogue.
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Customers enjoy the book. They find it an interesting and entertaining read with well-written dark prose that paints vivid images. The plot is well-paced and keeps them interested. Readers appreciate the characters and the internal monologue of the main character. Overall, they consider it a worthwhile read that can be read in one sitting.
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"...And, now we are off to the races. The story has great descriptions, reminding the reader very much of the hardboiled age of the forties..." Read more
"...I give it a 4/5 because I like the tale and will read it again...." Read more
"...'s written in a dark, gritty voice perfect for the beautiful combination of noir and cyberpunk...." Read more
"What an interesting mix! Noir detective in dystopia vs 9 foot mutant dogs! And it works for me...." Read more
Customers find the characters engaging. They appreciate the blending of genres and the hard-boiled detective as the narrator.
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"...It's also hilariously dark and witty. Feldman comes from the school of Humphrey Bogart & Sam Spade, but funnier. *..." Read more
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Customers enjoy the book's dark tone. They find it humorous and well-written, with a gritty voice that paints vivid images.
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"...As many have said, it's written in a dark, gritty voice perfect for the beautiful combination of noir and cyberpunk...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2014Put the Sepia On is a brilliant piece of work that is a cross between Philip Marlowe and Mad Max. The author purposefully has combined parts of hardboiled fiction with a desolate future world such as in Mad Max and created a novellete that is simply a ton of fun to read. Feldman acknowledges at the end of the tale that all his chapter titles are lines from classic hardboiled movies such as Dead Reckoning, The Third Man, The Maltese Falcon, The Blue Dahlia, Gilda, and The Lady From Shanghai. I will view the three movies in this list that I have not yet seen based on his recommendation. He also acknowledges that Rita is Rita Hayworth. He also claim that this is “a work of complete fiction.” Yeah, as if anyone would really believe that statement.
The story takes place in a nameless city, a big, ugly city, where a power struggle is taking place between the Corporation and the Dogs, who are huge nine-foot tall mutants with a taste for flesh. Most people are caught in the middle of this struggle and are poor, starving, wretched, and the Corporation pumps in drugs to keep them docile. The detective lives in this forsaken city, but never reveals his true name. He admits he is not a particularly good detective, but he is the only one in this city “dumb or lucky enough to do that job.” He looks for people who vanish or parts of them, whatever is left.
In classic hardboiled prose, the story involves our nameless detective sitting in his office on the wrong side of the tracks with his feet up on his desk, his hat pulled down low, and his whiskey bottle in evidence. Coral walks in and “her hips just swing, and for the fences.” Coral wants him to find her brother and, reluctantly, he takes on the case when she pays his fee. And, now we are off to the races.
The story has great descriptions, reminding the reader very much of the hardboiled age of the forties and fifties, including the descriptions of the lovely Rita whose “feet start at the ground: and whose “legs end somewhere in the neighborhood of Heaven.” The story is not in color. It is in black and white and grays and sepia, of course.
What makes this story fun, though, is that it is not just another hardboiled pastiche of past stories. It takes place in this strange, desolate wasteland of a future world. Two parts science fiction and two parts noir with something unknown thrown in for the last part.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2014The style of this work bears remarkable semblance to 'hard-boiled' genre detectives and uses that theme and tone to great effect. A nameless detective with a nameless past and countless nameless yet lucid memories invites us without words to follow along with him in the dystopic future where everything seems to be coated in a sort of brown-colored apathy or spliced with some sort of monstrosity whether physically or morally. This detective manages to give us insight into this world and the current events inside of it with lucid description, witty commentary, and clever world details without overwhelming a reader to need to know more while allowing that question for those who want to dig deeper.
I give it a 4/5 because I like the tale and will read it again. I believe that this may be the start of a wonderful series or serial of this type of work, if the author wishes to continue down that path. If you're looking for an entertaining read you need to do yourself one small favor; click that buy button up above. Why are you waiting around? It's a short (about an hour read), highly entertaining romp through dystopia with a hard boiled detective as your narrator, what else could you possibly want?
- Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2014"I had a feeling more than a few children dumb enough to be born in this part of town were now rotting under their own ceilings. The sun is bright in the sky.
It's a real party."
As a couple other reviewers have said, Feldman manages to pull of a Cyberpunk/Noir story using many of the familiar tropes, but without making it feel like you've read it all before. The writing is fresh, voicey, and at times beautiful (see the above). It's also hilariously dark and witty. Feldman comes from the school of Humphrey Bogart & Sam Spade, but funnier. *Put the Sepia On* is no comedy, to be clear, but I'll be damned if every other page doesn't make you laugh uncomfortably.
"I head to Lime's and try to reason with me. It's just a bar. Sure, it's a bar I have some history with, but it's JUST a bar. A dog bar, yes, but still... it's a bar. I'm good at bars. I know where the exits are, and I like whiskey."
- Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2016“Put the Sepia on” is chock full of snappy one-liners delivered by cynical private investigator in a dystopian post-apocalyptic society dominated by an evil corporation that subjugates the mass of society through administration of drugs that keep everybody in a compliant stupor. On the fringes of society are giant vicious mutants called Dogs who are seemingly immune to the mind-control drugs. The story is a bromance between the cynical detective and the leader of the dogs, with a femme fatale and a seductive naïf thrown in for good measure. It is written in a terse style that nevertheless manages to be visual while screaming to realized as a graphic novel or film in the style of “Sin City.” The story is a quick, easy read, almost to a fault, as it leaves the reader wishing there were a few hundred more pages to read.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2014This is definitely a fun read, though too short! As many have said, it's written in a dark, gritty voice perfect for the beautiful combination of noir and cyberpunk. The descriptions turn outlines of characters and places to life, teasing your mind with imagery and sarcasm that few can turn into an excellent, short story. The setting of a post-apocalyptic city gives an amazing feel to the 'olden days'-style detective work, reminding me of a much darker Eddie Valiant from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (insert sarcasm, remove slapstick, deliver excellent humor).
I sincerely hope this is just the tip of an iceberg for the storyline, perhaps even seeing more into some of the other characters. For a short read, this is nearly unbeatable, and I'll be gladly reading it multiple times!