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Slow Motion Riot Is Just That: Slow Motion
The author of this work was what drew me to this title. Peter Blauner wrote The Intruder and I absolutely loved that book. This book however leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The characters are not drawn out very well and the story drags on forever. Many of the players in this book are not needed and just prolong the agony of the reading. The end, although exciting, could have been better. All in all this a book that I have to say would be better if skipped.

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Funny, exciting and all too real!
Slow Motion Riot is one of the best books I've read in the last two years. The story is terryfying and doesn't let go of you for a second. Best part about it is the note perfect dialogue of the characters. Really a good, good book. Some of the images Blauner depicts will stay with me for a long time. I will definitely read it again!

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Gloomy and Real
This novel is not just the story of the idealist probation officer Steven Baum versus the sociopath crack addict and drug dealer Darryl King but a story of a city (New York) where the melting pot society is divided by races, greed, social classes, poverty, corruption and absence of moral values. Most than a "slow motion riot", the author picture a city sat on a time bomb where the criminality, violence and corruption are keep at bay or ignored with some "legal" methods without any intention of erradicate it, where minorities lost hope in the system and are induced to criminal activities and delinquency because of unemployment, low education rates, poverty, low salaries, dependency of social aid and segregation. A very explicit message for those who still dream with a more equalitarian society and for those who already lost hope in society and are paying the consequences of that cruel reality.