On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Cristoforo wrote:
> Willocks's Bad City Blues maybe a bit overwritten
and a tad pretentious, but
> it had extreme situations and great, edgy
characters. Quite memorable.
Yes, it is. It hooked me, but from time to time I found
myself wondering, is this believable in any sense of the
word?
> BTW, the author is a psychiatrist at a British
prison as I recall, where,
> not coincidentally his "Green River Rising" takes
place. Although populated
> with more borderline (and not so borderline)
psychopaths, I found GRR less
> interesting, a little more formulaic in a Hollywood
sense. But Bad City
> Blues is the berries.
"Green River Rising" takes place in an American prison, not
in a British one, if I remember correctly. There was supposed
to be a movie on this, but nothing comes to mind.
Juri
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