> From BOOK LUST (2003) by Nancy Pearl, one of those
"best books" or "what
> to read next if you liked ___" books:
>
> | I couldn't sleep for days after I read William
Hjortsberg's FALLING
> | ANGEL, which I'd been lured (by an unscrupulous
friend) into thinking
> | was a aymond Chandleresque private-eye novel. It
isn't. It might
> | share all the conventions of the hardboiled
mystery genre, but the
> | plot--the search for a missing singer in 1950s New
York--is animated by
> | supernatural evil, and the denouement is stunning
and disturbing.
>
> The title's been mentioned on the list, but never
with a review. It came
> out in 1978, and was made into the movie ANGEL HEART
(which I avoided) in
> the late eighties. Is it as good as Pearl says? I
see that No Exit has
> it in print.
I saw the movie. It was ghastly bad. Mickey Roarke needed a
shave and a BATH, Lisa Bonet was wooden, and DeNiro's screen
time was severely limited.
I wouldn't read the book from what I saw of this
movie.*shudder*
Brian
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 20 Feb 2004 EST