RARA-AVIS: Re: Torture Porn

From: funkmasterj@runbox.com
Date: 04 Jul 2007


>Charlie Huston is probably my favorite writer of the new crop and
>I've been recommending him to every Spanish-speaker I know who can
>read in English.
>
>It's not the violence (or the ultra-violence if you will) in the
>stories that's wrong. Sometimes you need exactly that to tell a good
>story. For instance, I don't think the cat torture scene in Huston's
>Caught Stealing was unnecessary, as shocking as it was.

You're entitled to your opinion of course, but I've never pick up another book of Huston's again.

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