Juri wrote:
> do you remember that I said some good words about
Tim Willocks's
> "Bad City Blues"? While I still admit I liked it, I
think I can't say
> that about Willocks's "Green River Rising". The
neo-ultra-hard-boiled
> dick-waving extravaganza got over me. Overwritten is
the right word.
Willocks's Bad City Blues maybe a bit overwritten and a tad
pretentious, but it had extreme situations and great, edgy
characters. Quite memorable.
BTW, the author is a psychiatrist at a British prison as I
recall, where, not coincidentally his "Green River Rising"
takes place. Although populated with more borderline (and not
so borderline) psychopaths, I found GRR less interesting, a
little more formulaic in a Hollywood sense. But Bad City
Blues is the berries.
Brad
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