Bob Toomey (btoomey@javanet.com)
Tue, 07 Dec 1999 01:12:35 -0500
Bruce Townley wrote:
> THE KILLER INSIDE ME is, of course, a tale with an
eerily lucid
> first-person narration by a madman, taking this plot
device even further.
A new variation on the Chinese torture -- death of a thousand
cliché³®
> Much as I love Thompson's stuff, the ending to THE
GETAWAY always has
> struck me as an act of desperation slappped together
in the face of a
> looming deadline set by whatever cheap paperback
house he was writing for
> at the time. Desperate but, as you say, a brilliant
improvisation.
Who can tell with Thompson? For me the ending seems exactly
right. They get away and here's the destination, the happy
ever after place, Oz following a hostile takeover by the
forces of rampant capitalism.
BobT
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