hi everybody!
well, i'm back from the big apple! didja miss me? yeah,
right. hahaha.
i finished mccoy's _they shoot horses, don't they?_. i could
not become interested in the plot (if there was one) or the
characters. the girl spent the book doing a sylvia plath "i
wish i were dead" routine and in the end he was dumb enough
to ruin his life too by helping her out. (this is not a
spoiler, incidentally. you know the ending at the very be-
ginning.)
mccoy did do a good job of portraying the sense of
desperation in the great depression, but i had just finished
cain's _postman_, so that wasn't exactly new to me.
and i just finished up anderson's _thieves like us_. i liked
it. good clean prose and excellent, well developed
characters. he did a good job of getting inside bowie's head.
the dialogue was excellent at portraying the characters. the
relationship between keechie and bowie was well
written.
my only disappointment (very slight) is that because i knew
it was noir, i essentially knew the ending. like mrT recently
stated, the genre is predictable.
shifting gears a bit: i got to thinking about that
predictability factor and decided that's one of the reasons
that harris's
_hannibal_ really rocked. a hardboiled gal like claris going
over to the enemy camp is just unheard of. it shook the
foundation. i'm glad they fixed it in the movie. ;-)
i just started fearing's _the big clock_. its pretty darned
good, but nobody's dead yet.
miker
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