Just finished this, a book I've wanted to read for years. I
had started Rucka's SMOKER but a few pages into it, it struck
a dumb note and I couldn't read another page.
HANDMAID'S TALE is close to Mario's description of noir
without crime. A few months ago I picked up an earlier novel
of Atwood's but couldn't become interested in it. This one
starts out with the same atmosphere, a facade of studied
boredom barely masking hysteria, something I don't think many
authors do too well. Joan Didion did well by it in PLAY IT AS
IT LAYS, and it was definitely what Woolrich was all about in
I MARRIED A DEAD MAN.
What did I think of it? It was OK. I skipped some of the more
tedious parts, something I rarely do. Generally, if I don't
have it in me to read word for word, I don't have it in me to
finish the book. The book was written only twenty years ago,
but it had a dated feel to it. Blurb said it spent four
months on the bestseller list.
Oh! And thanks, Mark, for the background information on Touch
of Evil!
miker
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