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Crazy Heart |  | Publisher: Constable
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Media: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1849015120
EAN: 9781849015127
ASIN: 1849015120
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 13
 Crazy Good January 7, 2010
Samantha Hoffman (Chicago, Illinois United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
A beautifully crafted story with a flawed protagonist who grabs your heart. Bad (that's his name) is just that...bad. He's an overweight, alcoholic, womanizing has-been with such heart that you can't help but fall in love with him. Thomas Cobb is an incredible writer. This was his first novel and it's an amazing piece of work.
Bad Blake redux February 22, 2010
Ikkyu Jones (cyber-void)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Turns out, the novel is at least as good as the movie.
And the movie is very good.
Thomas Cobb pulls no punches.
The book's ending is true Bad Blake.
A winner.
Enthralling read March 16, 2010
Brigitte Pauli (Taos, NM, US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had read this book when it first came out way back when. Re-read it before going to see the movie and still loved it just as much. My husband also read it. Very lively scenes, we can see why it made it as a movie. The book's of course better than the film because it is more detailed and crafted so beautifully. We live in Northern New Mexico, so it felt right at home...
overlooked gem April 14, 2006
Sean R. Mitchell (Los Angeles CA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book reeking with authenticity about the hard lives lived in country music before the glitter of CMT. Cobb is a beautiful, spare stylist whose penchant for the truth keeps him from jumping on a glib music business plot and adorning it with with easy ornamentation. He's after something deeper here about tragedy and human limitations. I never could understand why this novel failed to garner a larger following other than the usual vagaries of the book business that sheds non bestselling titles within three weeks. "Crazy Heart," I suspect, is one that is destined to be rediscovered.
Given a second chance, would you do things differently? February 7, 2010
L. Burns (New England)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It's the 1980's and Bad Blake's glory days as a Country Western star are decades behind him. At 56 he scratches out a living playing one night stands in a series of interchangeable dives. Years of hard living have taken their toll. Bad is overweight, his health is failing and his personal relationships consist mainly of drunken sex with mostly anonymous women that he meets in bars. A reporter for a small local paper interviews Bad after a show in Santa Fe. Bad falls for Jean Craddock and has to consider whether he can make a place in his life for the straightforward woman and her four year old son.
Bad is an interesting character. While he's willing to take the blame for the disintegration of his personal life, he also shows a profound lack of self awareness. He seems genuinely confused when people are unwilling to offer forgiveness for years of neglect or appalling irresponsibility. He's self-centered but basically kind; views his years on the road with fond nostalgia even though he blames the lifestyle for robbing him of his wife and son.
As much as anything else this is a story about alcoholism and the havoc it wreaks on one man's life.
This was a good read - thought provoking, sometimes sad and occasionally even funny. The story felt authentic, almost like a particularly honest autobiography. Early on I felt like I knew where the story was heading but was content to sit back and let the author take me there in his own time. Well done and highly recommended.
There is occasional swearing (including racial slurs) and some mild sexual content.
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