----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Matkowski" <
jmatkowski1@comcast.net>
> Colin, you are so right about Derek Raymond and his
books. _He Died With
His
> Eyes Open_ is stunning and, as you say,
compassionate. He's got a
> comprehending heart for all of humanity, and even
the most tangential
> character has a defining and individuating phrase or
sentence. I liked the
> book so much that instead of next reading another
new-to-me British author
I
> opened _The Crust on Its Uppers._ Unless somebody
gives me a pep talk, I'm
> going to put it aside at page 21. It's written 20
years earlier. It's full
> of rhyming slang, past what even the glossary could
help, which gets
tedious
> fast.
HE DIED WITH HIS EYES OPEN had the same effect on me when I
read it last month. I subsequently read I WAS DORA SUAREZ,
which plumbs the underbelly of humanity and, unamazingly,
finds a sewage system (DORA is probably more famous because
of the perversion featured therein, but although I thought
it
[the book, not the perversion] was excellent, I didn't enjoy
it as much). Recently I finished "DEAD MAN UPRIGHT", a quite
magnificently convincing portrayal of a serial killer.
Al
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