> I don't think I've ever seen so many brand names,
band names, and song
titles in a single book. I know Pelecanos was trying to
convey a time and a place, but I got a little tired of the
"he turned up the V on the big {brand name) stereo"
sentences.
>
I thought it was great, simply because no one else was trying
anything really similar in the field. And face it: Americans
are big on materialism and brand names and have been for a
long time, so to see that reflected in this way was funny,
interesting, and I thought it did make the period seem more
real than if he were to use broader things to define a
decade. He was defining it the way these characters lived
it.
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