hi everybody!
well i'm bout halfway thru charles williams's _river girl_. i
love the intensity, jack's growing desperation and the lake
setting.
my only complaint so far is that i think he's overdone the
foreshadowing. when dianne comes over and offers to give him
a ride from the lake, its too obvious that he's being
double-crossed. jack has already stated earlier that buford
would kill to protect his butt, and then he makes it real
obvious when he makes that comment about not knowing at the
time how true buford's words about them not meeting again
were. add to that his suspicion of dianne (geez... she
introduces herself with one name and the sheriff uses
another), and its a dead giveaway.
so williams sort of wrote in his own spoiler. i'm not exactly
sure how the betrayal will come down... whether buford will
be waiting for him at the meeting place, or be in the car
with dianne (that seems to dangerous). guessing about the
outcome, i figure jack kills buford but is done in by dianne.
hmm... she must be the femme fatale, although jack doesn't
want her. and i wonder further about whether he's misjudged
dianne even further. he thinks she's a "kept" woman, but she
acts to independent. i think those guns hanging up in the
apartment might just be hers.
i'll print this out in case i'm dead wrong on the double-
cross thing, just in case i gotta eat em. ;-)
miker
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