Btw. Anyone interested in reading a short story of mine
featuring Johnny Lane during his better days can find it
at:
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/fiction/02_10_02.html
I wrote this partly to be a smart aleck (anyone reading this
and then Fast Lane will realize why) and partly as an
experiment to see if I could do a Lew Archer-type
story.
Dave Zeltserman
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@w... wrote:
> I finished Dave Zeltserman's Fast Lane last night.
Quite a read.
It's
> really something how this unreliable, or is he,
narrator pulls you
in.
>
> SEMI-SPOILERS (I'm not giving away any specifics,
but in dealing
with
> the plotting in general, I hint at some things I'm
not sure I
would have
> wanted to know before I read it.)
>
> Johnny Lane's folksy voice immediately made me think
of Thompson's
Lou
> Ford. So I was suspicious of how reliable he was as
a narrator
from the
> very beginning. However, I was wondering whether
Lane was just
fooling
> the directly addressed reader or himself, too. It
becomes
increasingly
> clear it's the former as Lane "remembers" to tell
the reader
things he
> previously "forgot" to mention.
>
> The pacing is also very good. At first I was kind of
afraid that
the
> book would end with a revelation that, while
startling, would not
have
> been at all surprising, since Lane often exposes
more of himself
than he
> seems to be aware of (which is a very neat balancing
act of
> Zeltserman's). However, the reader officially finds
out this
secret
> just before the halfway point and the rest is an
increasingly
wild, dark
> ride as the consequences are dealt with and the true
Johnny comes
forth
> more and more.
>
> Yes, the book all flows from a pretty incredible
coincidence, but
once
> you get past that (which really isn't hard, one of
those things we
tend
> to accept more easily in crime novels than real
life), everything
flows
> quite naturally.
>
> So Dave, when's the next book coming out?
>
> And thanks Juha for publishing books like
this.
>
> Mark
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