hi everybody!
just finished joe gores's _cases_. this is the first book
i've read of his. a few months ago mario had posted about him
so i picked this one up. it was a good book.
it starts out as a series of events in the life of pierce
duncan. the characters are well done and the writing is
interesting and insightful. there is quite a bit of vio-
lence in the book. although i can't exactly put my finger on
it, he reminds me of cormac mccarthy when he writes the
violent scenes. i think its because these scenes are of- ten
written in a detached, clinically precise manner.
i don't exactly know how to say this... let me try. gores
generates the excitement and fear and danger of violence thru
a quick and clean description, instead of pumping the
narrative up with a bunch of emotionally charged adjectives
and sentences. the contast between his unflinching
description of the action and the actual action itself serves
to accentuate it.
miker
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