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Book Club Review
Where the Dark Streets Go
Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Our book club's book for September was Where the Dark Streets Go, by Dorothy Salisbury Davis. We chose this book because there has been a book making the rounds among us, Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, which is an anthology of short stories by women writers of suspense. Several of us liked the Davis story included in it, so we found our way to Where the Dark Streets Go. (It is tough to find online, but many of our libraries had a copy.)

It is late 1960s New York City in a rough neighborhood. A local priest, Joseph McMahon, is called to the side of a dying man who has been stabbed. The priest forges a bond in a brief time with the victim, and he finds himself being drawn into the investigation.

We had an excellent discussion about this book. I think many of us were surprised by how hard-boiled and frank it is. There are mature discussions and treatments of sexuality, competition and bad feelings among competing ethnic groups in the neighborhood, wealth and income disparity, and even the priest's crisis of faith as he finds himself falling in love with the murdered man's ex-girlfriend.

And yet, at the end of the day, this was not a book that we particularly enjoyed. Most of us agreed that we didn't care for it, and we spent a lot of time dissecting the reasons. The plot is really rather basic and isn't carried along by any detective or sleuthing work. Rather, information just drops into the characters' laps when the author is ready to reveal it. There's no sense of urgency about the story, no real surprises, nothing out of the ordinary.

The bigger problem, we thought, was the writing. It is rather muddy while taking itself very seriously. Equally problematic: The people in this book aren't people; they are characters who declaim, represent, and symbolize. Many of them speak as if they are in a book by Ayn Rand (i.e., they don't converse so much as pontificate and try to impress with their depth). For this reason, it was hard to really care about any of them. Father McMahon holds your interest, but he's not particularly likeable, and the woman he falls for is annoyingly opaque (and Randian in her tendency to make blanket statements in an attempt to be deep).

Overall, as a group we had an epiphany that isn't necessarily brilliant but that helped us understand our reaction to this book: The measure of reading fiction is how much you enjoy it. Most of us finished this one out of a sense of obligation, not because we were enjoying the experience. So, not a book we'd recommend but I for one would certainly be interested in hearing other opinions about it.


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Where the dark streets go Dorothy Salisbury Davis 9780340128367 Books Reviews

Book Club Review
Where the Dark Streets Go
Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Our book club's book for September was Where the Dark Streets Go, by Dorothy Salisbury Davis. We chose this book because there has been a book making the rounds among us, Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, which is an anthology of short stories by women writers of suspense. Several of us liked the Davis story included in it, so we found our way to Where the Dark Streets Go. (It is tough to find online, but many of our libraries had a copy.)

It is late 1960s New York City in a rough neighborhood. A local priest, Joseph McMahon, is called to the side of a dying man who has been stabbed. The priest forges a bond in a brief time with the victim, and he finds himself being drawn into the investigation.

We had an excellent discussion about this book. I think many of us were surprised by how hard-boiled and frank it is. There are mature discussions and treatments of sexuality, competition and bad feelings among competing ethnic groups in the neighborhood, wealth and income disparity, and even the priest's crisis of faith as he finds himself falling in love with the murdered man's ex-girlfriend.

And yet, at the end of the day, this was not a book that we particularly enjoyed. Most of us agreed that we didn't care for it, and we spent a lot of time dissecting the reasons. The plot is really rather basic and isn't carried along by any detective or sleuthing work. Rather, information just drops into the characters' laps when the author is ready to reveal it. There's no sense of urgency about the story, no real surprises, nothing out of the ordinary.

The bigger problem, we thought, was the writing. It is rather muddy while taking itself very seriously. Equally problematic The people in this book aren't people; they are characters who declaim, represent, and symbolize. Many of them speak as if they are in a book by Ayn Rand (i.e., they don't converse so much as pontificate and try to impress with their depth). For this reason, it was hard to really care about any of them. Father McMahon holds your interest, but he's not particularly likeable, and the woman he falls for is annoyingly opaque (and Randian in her tendency to make blanket statements in an attempt to be deep).

Overall, as a group we had an epiphany that isn't necessarily brilliant but that helped us understand our reaction to this book The measure of reading fiction is how much you enjoy it. Most of us finished this one out of a sense of obligation, not because we were enjoying the experience. So, not a book we'd recommend but I for one would certainly be interested in hearing other opinions about it.