A Stone for Danny Fisher

I've read A Stone for Danny Fisher several times over decades. When I was a kid growing up in Danny's Brooklyn I enjoyed the references to places and things and people I knew. I also enjoyed the sexy parts, though they were done more by inference and euphemism than the explicit language we're used t......more

I don't know how many times I've read this book over the years. I first read it when very young so I guess that has made it special because it affected me more than either the writing or the story ought to deserve. Not that it isn't a well told tale by a writer who knew how to tell a story. Harold R......more

I had no idea what to expect when I picked this up in audio from the library. I read a few of Harold Robbins' more commercial, salacious novels from the late seventies, yet hadn't thought of him in years. But this novel is an entirely different animal: this is 1950s cinéma vérité with a heavy dose o......more

What a book! I remember reading this book when I was in college and being consumed by it. It left a deep impact on me. So when I found it on Kindle, I could not help but buy and read it all over again. Forty-plus years later I could not put the book down, until I finished the last page. I found myse......more