I'm currently reading Irvine Welsh's latest book FiIth, which
anyone who
has read a British crime novel will know is criminal argot
for cop. I
have already seen it compared to Ellroy--"does for Glasgow,
what Ellroy
did for LA," that sort of thing. So far (I'm about a third of
the way
through it), I don't see it. There is a murder that must be
solved, but
that really isn't emphasized very much. The book reminds me
more of A
Confederacy of Dunces than anything else. made up mostly of
a
misanthropic cop's rants against the world. I'll let you know
if it
changes, but I don't expect it to.
Mark
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