Miker wrote: i was disappointed that borders bookstore didn't
have a copy of _getaway_ for me
today................................
Don't give up trying to find it. The book is different than
the movies, alot better! I voted Getaway best Thompson I had
read and I can go one more and say it might be the best
hardboiled crime novel I have read. No, thompson isn't the
best prose stylist in the world and he is very much a
"pulp" writer, still a week after my re-readings of Thompson,
Getaway haunts me. I guess that is a sign of a good one.
Reading Getaway you feel like it can be read on different
levels of meaning, like their getaway can be seen as the
descent of a couple of souls to perdition or as in buddhism a
reaping of karma, or maybe picture of capitalism without
ethics in El Rey's kingdom. Thompson may have never intended
any extra meaning yet this is a novel that cast many
interesting shadows on the wall of the mind. In short do find
and read a copy!
Paul Miller
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