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The Cocktail Waitress (Hard Case Crime, Band 109)

Name: The Cocktail Waitress (Hard Case Crime, Band 109)
Author: James M. Cain
ISBN: 9781781160329

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"The Cocktail Waitress will involve you, and then shock you with an ending you'll never forget. This is a true rarity: a reader's novel that's also a literary event." - Stephen King

Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage...

ISBN9781781160329

PublisherHard Case Crime

Publication Date09/18/12

Pages272

ISBN9781781160329

PublisherHard Case Crime

Publication Date09/18/12

Pages272

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just_danusch
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Wow, it’s very hard for me to dnf a book, but I just couldn’t stand the sexism for another chapter. I enjoyed Cain’s “double indemnity” although it also contains sexism, but it felt more like a portrait of a time period than really sexist remarks. Don’t understand me wrong: I don’t have a problem if male writers write out of a female POV, but PLEASE...stop writing sexist bullshit that is your sexual fantasy of a femme fatal and sell it as a female POV. After 30 percent of the book I didn’t feel like I got to the mystery part of the story and I lost all interest after a love interest gets introduced through a sexual assault scene (and no ladies and gentlemen, being shitfaced drunk doesn’t excuse anything. To be the tip on the iceberg, the character doesn’t really feel any remorse about his behaviour at all). All in all I’m disappointed af because I was intrigued by the blurb.
Nov 16, 2020
1.0
Wow, it’s very hard for me to dnf a book, but I just couldn’t stand the sexism for another chapter. I enjoyed Cain’s “double indemnity” although it also contains sexism, but it felt more like a portrait of a time period than really sexist remarks. Don’t understand me wrong: I don’t have a problem if male writers write out of a female POV, but PLEASE...stop writing sexist bullshit that is your sexual fantasy of a femme fatal and sell it as a female POV. After 30 percent of the book I didn’t feel like I got to the mystery part of the story and I lost all interest after a love interest gets introduced through a sexual assault scene (and no ladies and gentlemen, being shitfaced drunk doesn’t excuse anything. To be the tip on the iceberg, the character doesn’t really feel any remorse about his behaviour at all). All in all I’m disappointed af because I was intrigued by the blurb.
Nov 16, 2020
just_danusch
just_danusch
1.0
Wow, it’s very hard for me to dnf a book, but I just couldn’t stand the sexism for another chapter. I enjoyed Cain’s “double indemnity” although it also contains sexism, but it felt more like a portrait of a time period than really sexist remarks. Don’t understand me wrong: I don’t have a problem if male writers write out of a female POV, but PLEASE...stop writing sexist bullshit that is your sexual fantasy of a femme fatal and sell it as a female POV. After 30 percent of the book I didn’t feel like I got to the mystery part of the story and I lost all interest after a love interest gets introduced through a sexual assault scene (and no ladies and gentlemen, being shitfaced drunk doesn’t excuse anything. To be the tip on the iceberg, the character doesn’t really feel any remorse about his behaviour at all). All in all I’m disappointed af because I was intrigued by the blurb.
Nov 16, 2020
1.0
Wow, it’s very hard for me to dnf a book, but I just couldn’t stand the sexism for another chapter. I enjoyed Cain’s “double indemnity” although it also contains sexism, but it felt more like a portrait of a time period than really sexist remarks. Don’t understand me wrong: I don’t have a problem if male writers write out of a female POV, but PLEASE...stop writing sexist bullshit that is your sexual fantasy of a femme fatal and sell it as a female POV. After 30 percent of the book I didn’t feel like I got to the mystery part of the story and I lost all interest after a love interest gets introduced through a sexual assault scene (and no ladies and gentlemen, being shitfaced drunk doesn’t excuse anything. To be the tip on the iceberg, the character doesn’t really feel any remorse about his behaviour at all). All in all I’m disappointed af because I was intrigued by the blurb.
Nov 16, 2020
just_d.159
just_d.159
1.0
Wow, it’s very hard for me to dnf a book, but I just couldn’t stand the sexism for another chapter. I enjoyed Cain’s “double indemnity” although it also contains sexism, but it felt more like a portrait of a time period than really sexist remarks. Don’t understand me wrong: I don’t have a problem if male writers write out of a female POV, but PLEASE...stop writing sexist bullshit that is your sexual fantasy of a femme fatal and sell it as a female POV. After 30 percent of the book I didn’t feel like I got to the mystery part of the story and I lost all interest after a love interest gets introduced through a sexual assault scene (and no ladies and gentlemen, being shitfaced drunk doesn’t excuse anything. To be the tip on the iceberg, the character doesn’t really feel any remorse about his behaviour at all). All in all I’m disappointed af because I was intrigued by the blurb.
Feb 15, 2024
1.0
Wow, it’s very hard for me to dnf a book, but I just couldn’t stand the sexism for another chapter. I enjoyed Cain’s “double indemnity” although it also contains sexism, but it felt more like a portrait of a time period than really sexist remarks. Don’t understand me wrong: I don’t have a problem if male writers write out of a female POV, but PLEASE...stop writing sexist bullshit that is your sexual fantasy of a femme fatal and sell it as a female POV. After 30 percent of the book I didn’t feel like I got to the mystery part of the story and I lost all interest after a love interest gets introduced through a sexual assault scene (and no ladies and gentlemen, being shitfaced drunk doesn’t excuse anything. To be the tip on the iceberg, the character doesn’t really feel any remorse about his behaviour at all). All in all I’m disappointed af because I was intrigued by the blurb.
Feb 15, 2024

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