Dead Celebrities (Audible Audio Edition) Christopher Calix Joshua Macrae Lethe Press Books
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Carter Calhoun was once a Hollywood legend, an agent both loved and loathed by stars and studio executives alike. But then the suicide of his lover and star client, matinee idol Sam Madison, sent Carter to the bottom of the bottle. Carter became a housebound recluse. Now, years later, new evidence reveals Sam may have been murdered and Carter emerges from seclusion to find his killer. The hunt will take him from the soundstages of Hollywood to a trailer park in Malibu to the mansions of Bel Air.
Carter, struggling against addiction and bouts of agoraphobia, must navigate through a new and unfamiliar world where anyone can be famous and everyone has an agenda - and a secret. For Carter, solving Sam's murder offers hope of redemption - as long as he can stay alive.
Dead Celebrities (Audible Audio Edition) Christopher Calix Joshua Macrae Lethe Press Books
I really liked this book. No, I really enjoyed reading this book. Not exactly the same thing. This is a debut novel, and the author is, apparently, young as well as talented.One weird fact is that the main character’s name, Carter Calhoun, never appears in the book until the last page. Other than that, this is a beautifully crafted homage to Hollywood noir novels. It’s gay noir, with a complex murder mystery woven in and out of a vivid, cynical depiction of Hollywood and the industry that rules the fantasies of the USA along with a good part of the rest of the world.
The closest recent parallel in my mind to “Dead Celebrities” is not a book, but the long-running TV series “Entourage,” which I watched with grim determination through every season to the bitter end. The difference there is that “Entourage” depicted a Hollywood with no gay people, which seemed even more bizarre than the one Calix paints for us. Everything else, however, is right there. I think my intense dislike and disrespect for Hollywood came into focus because of “Entourage,” and Calix offers nothing to sweeten that image.
The never-named first person narrator, Carter Calhoun, is an arch, WASPy Ari Gold, who re-emerges from his decade-long seclusion in the Hollywood Hills to solve a murder that had long been thought to be a suicide. The narrative moves neatly back and forth between the present-day plot and a flashback plot revolving around Calhoun’s onetime client and sometime lover Sam Madison.
There are precious few people that generate any sympathy in this book, and I don’t think that’s accidental. Calhoun's housekeeper and friend Lana (reminding me of Thelma Ritter with her kindness and smart commentary) is the only fully caring human in sight. Even the tragic central character, Sam Madison, is so duplicitous and manipulative that I never could completely embrace him, although Calix gives us a rich sense of his compelling beauty and complex character. The best description of Madison’s personality is presented thusly: “He’s a careless f*****g savage. But he’s also completely naïve and innocent.”
For all its wry, smart gay noir storyline, this is not a book that I’d say would make any gay people happy with the way they’re depicted. For that matter, bisexuals might find this book bordering on defamatory. Only Calhoun himself, by the end, managed to pull me over onto his side. He is the one character who seems to emerge from the blighted, fraudulent culture of Hollywood with something like a soul.
Christopher Calix promises to follow up with another Carter Calhoun story, and I will read it. Interestingly, this appears to be his actual name, which is a breath of fresh air.
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Dead Celebrities (Audible Audio Edition) Christopher Calix Joshua Macrae Lethe Press Books Reviews
Pulled me in from the very beginning. Can't put it down. Interesting characters. Great writing
Kudos Christopher Calix.
I recently finished reading this debut novel by Calix and greatly enjoyed it; the mystery is best described as a slow-burn, a build-up to a deftly crafted novel with a surprise ending of "who dunnit" that I never saw coming! - highly recommended!
I really enjoyed this and was very happy to give it five stars. This is Christopher Calix's debut novel, and I hope to see more from him in the future.
The plot's interesting, the pacing is very good, even with flashbacks, and I liked the Los Angeles setting. I could clearly see the story unfolding in my head as I read, which is what I love. A good writer can do that, and Christopher did it well. I couldn't wait to see how the story ended.
The narrator of the story, Carter Calhoun, isn't the nicest person in the world, but I believe deep down inside him there's a slice of decency. I liked his housekeeper Lana, who did her best to keep him on track. I don't think she would've bothered if he was cold and hard all the way through, although some of the things he did earlier in the book were hateful. I'd hope that part of him stays in the past.
Not only a thrilling mystery and a delightfully campy ride through Hollywood, my friend Christopher Calix's book has unexpected depths of emotion.
This book sucked me in from the start! I don't often write book reviews because frankly I don't often find books I really enjoy! Christopher's writing style keeps you reading and he does such a good job of building the story that I had a very hard time putting this book down! I can't wait to see what the crime Carter Calhoun will solve next!
I really liked this book. No, I really enjoyed reading this book. Not exactly the same thing. This is a debut novel, and the author is, apparently, young as well as talented.
One weird fact is that the main character’s name, Carter Calhoun, never appears in the book until the last page. Other than that, this is a beautifully crafted homage to Hollywood noir novels. It’s gay noir, with a complex murder mystery woven in and out of a vivid, cynical depiction of Hollywood and the industry that rules the fantasies of the USA along with a good part of the rest of the world.
The closest recent parallel in my mind to “Dead Celebrities” is not a book, but the long-running TV series “Entourage,” which I watched with grim determination through every season to the bitter end. The difference there is that “Entourage” depicted a Hollywood with no gay people, which seemed even more bizarre than the one Calix paints for us. Everything else, however, is right there. I think my intense dislike and disrespect for Hollywood came into focus because of “Entourage,” and Calix offers nothing to sweeten that image.
The never-named first person narrator, Carter Calhoun, is an arch, WASPy Ari Gold, who re-emerges from his decade-long seclusion in the Hollywood Hills to solve a murder that had long been thought to be a suicide. The narrative moves neatly back and forth between the present-day plot and a flashback plot revolving around Calhoun’s onetime client and sometime lover Sam Madison.
There are precious few people that generate any sympathy in this book, and I don’t think that’s accidental. Calhoun's housekeeper and friend Lana (reminding me of Thelma Ritter with her kindness and smart commentary) is the only fully caring human in sight. Even the tragic central character, Sam Madison, is so duplicitous and manipulative that I never could completely embrace him, although Calix gives us a rich sense of his compelling beauty and complex character. The best description of Madison’s personality is presented thusly “He’s a careless f*****g savage. But he’s also completely naïve and innocent.”
For all its wry, smart gay noir storyline, this is not a book that I’d say would make any gay people happy with the way they’re depicted. For that matter, bisexuals might find this book bordering on defamatory. Only Calhoun himself, by the end, managed to pull me over onto his side. He is the one character who seems to emerge from the blighted, fraudulent culture of Hollywood with something like a soul.
Christopher Calix promises to follow up with another Carter Calhoun story, and I will read it. Interestingly, this appears to be his actual name, which is a breath of fresh air.
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