I was just going to post about David Peace when E. Borgers
sent the following:
"If my message reaches the List, I'll give also more comments
about David Peace, which disturbs us in all his novels, and
is a real author, not just an offspring of Ellroy, as hasty
critics tend to classify him. Very dark, noir and
existential."
I wanted to say that I have found the first three books,
Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven and Nineteen
Eighty, of his Red Riding Quartet so disturbing that I
haven't been able to read Nineteen Eight Three. I read the
first three while in England and have had book four on my
shelf since ordering it in 2003. I would guess that I have
picked it up at least 10 times since then and always put it
back. The usual excuse was that I wasn't in the mood to read
someone as bleak as Peace. I also have his fifth novel GB84
about the miner's strike on the shelf. Rather than read it, I
elected to go with Martyn Waites' novel on the same subject.
I also have read Peace's football novel, The Damned UTD, but
not his recent historical novel set in Tokyo.
Kent Morgan
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