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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451217295
ISBN number: 0451217292
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: January 03, 2006
Publishing house: Signet
Sale Popularity Level: 127924
Studio: Signet
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The brand-new mystery series starring the brilliant, beloved, and slightly off-balance sleuth from the USA Network's hit show!
Monk's house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. Fortunately, his assistant Natalie and her daughter are kind enough to welcome him into their home. Unfortunately, their home is not quite up to Monk's standards of cleanliness and order.
But while Monk attempts to arrange his surroundings just so, something else needs to be put straight. The death of a dog at the local firehouse-on the same night as a fatal house fire-has led Monk into a puzzling mystery. And much to his horror, he's going to have to dig through a lot of dirt to find the answer.
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There is just nowhere else that you can get a serious, tightly-written detective story (okay, murder mystery) that is also a laugh every page. And not silly, either. Aside from the challenge of following the clues, and admiring Monk's analytical skills through the faithful narration of Natalie Teeger, we learn a lot about ourselves through the gifts and the limitations of Monk's condition.
For fans of the TV series, I can say that Tony Shalhoub comes through great in writing. I only wish they could have given us Traylour Howard on the cover too, since her character is also a star in the stories. With her struggling not-quite-normality, she is the rest of us.
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The fun of the Monk series is that the hero makes use of his compulsive-obsessive cast of mind to solve the mysteries. He lives in terror of some things, but uses his own fears to ferret out the information that helps him corral the perps. Lee Goldberg, who writes these novels, brings freshness and a tender appreciation of troubled people and their idiosyncrasies. The Monk novels are rich with humor, which makes them perfect antidotes for the blues, bipolar disorder, St. Vitus Dance, neurosis, and leprosy. If you haven't read one, get a prescription for one Monk novel a day, taken at bedtime, and pick it up at your pharmacy.
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"Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse" was adapted into the MONK episode "Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing," written by me & William Rabkin. There are some significant differences between the two (eg Monk isn't blind in the book), but if you have seen the episode, you may experience some deja vu, so please don't operate heavy machinery while reading the novel.
(This note will appear in future editions of the book, beginning with the sixth printing, coming this summer).
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I am a brazilian Monk fan, and I was eager to read Monk's novel after I become addicted to the show. As I should import the books, it took me some while to get them. I chose this very book, after reading some reviews, and I wasn't surprised to see the links between written and filmed Monk. Actually, I was expecting to see it, and it is one of the features that I like the most on this book. But the main catching thing is that the written story allows us to go further than the limited view from the aired episodes -limited not in a bad way, but in a more guided way. While reading it we get the permission to figure the scenes the way our mind decides to. And the author allows us to do it, with his easy and catchy written abilities.
Allowing the reader to follow Natalie's thoughts, that many times carries us far away from Natalie's character on TV, is as exciting as waiting for the second part of a double episode, and gives us a different way of realizing Monk, sometimes getting other glimpses of Monk issues we haven't seen on the TV Show.
I believe this book series are recommended for the whole family, as the TV show. They maintain the essence of our admired TV Monk, but also allows us to get in another path and investigate differently every clue or thing related to Monk's cases, even to Monk's life. It is definitely A+.
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She claims to have liked it, but who knows if she was just saying that.:)
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