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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Steve Novak
<Cinefrog@...> wrote:
>
<<At every turn, at every page there are discoveries,
elipses, retractions, advances, flashes of humour, dark
thoughts, and all in such a volatile and yet economical,
almost mumbled language...and it¹s all sustained by the
relentless references to a pantheon of writers, of quotes
embedded in the story, weaved into the preceeding and
following paragraphs...high art, totally jubilatory...it
makes you cringe with pleasure literally (as good crime
novels should)...I had not experienced this for many months
since the flash of lightning >>
I could do without the relentless reference to a pantheon of
writers. Bruen is undoubtedly very good,but at times I sense
an overeagerness to tell too many things at the same time
(about self and about the story). Ellroy did something like
that, to excess, to great excess.
Best,
MrT
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