Bill Crider wrote:
> Immediately after I sent my first post about KS, I
recieved Diane's post.
> I felt exactly the same way she did, that the
details seemed forced.
I felt ths same when reading Pelecanos, though that was
before reading KS. I thought the earlier Stefanos books were
too self-consciously overwritten, all that stuff about what
people were wearing, the hi-fi, what record was on, the
booze, the cigarette brands, everything down to their goddamn
lighter fuel. By the time I got to read KS though I thought
GP had got better (so if you think this stuff is hard to take
in KS, be warned!).
BTW, something that I found more tedious than the
shopping-list style of description was the equivalence that
is apparently forged between homosexuality and
crime/nastiness. This occurs in KS as well as other Pelecanos
books. It's as if there's a crude equation: "sexual
deviance"
= "social deviance" (hey, maybe it's an ideological period
piece!)
I've got some old Pelecanos reviews hanging about somewhere
... I'll have a look, see if one or two migt be worth posting
to the list
ED
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