Curious if any of you have read Eric Garcia's "Anonymous Rex"
and what you thought of it. It's one of those
Philip-Dick-meets-Chandler novels that's as much sci-fi as it
is hardboiled -- the subgenre including "Who Killed Roger
Rabbit," "Gun, With Occasional Music" and maybe "Anonymous
Brooklyn" depending on how you look at it -- the twist here
being that the detective is one of a secret society of
dinosaurs that survived extinction and live among humans in
disguise. Personally, I'm of two minds about the book.
Garcia's captured Chandler's prose style quite well, I think,
but I wonder if this kind of high-concept re-imagining has
lost its freshness and is turning into a "Marlowe with
[insert weird postmodern twist here]" set of cliches.
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