Diane Trap (trap@Mail.Libs.UGA.EDU)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:33:26 -0500 (EST)
> I just started reading John Ridley's LOVE IS A
RACKET, and within the first
> ten pages the narrator has given an old whore $50
bucks that he can ill
> afford to part with because he feels sorry for her.
Are tough guys
> supposed to be so sentimental? Of course I haven't
read any farther in the
> book. Maybe he grabs the money back later
on.
He's not sentimental, just delusional--Love is a Racket is
narrated by a man who's deeper in denial than Cleopatra. It's
a great story.
-----Diane Trap
trap@mail.libs.uga.edu
>
> Bill Crider
>
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