Mario Taboada wrote:
What I recall about GiaB is that, while overdone, it
nevertheless held my attention. It has strong characters,
good bones.
******** I thought that the outrageous use of simile and
metaphor, coupled with his twisting of the language (turning
nouns and adjectives into verbs, for example), to be done on
purpose to lighten it up a bit and add some literary humor to
the dark content. I thought his choice of names for the
protagonists, Bob Hightower and Case Hardin, was wickedly
funny.
Teran had some cajones to write a book like this. The
violence level tops out way over what Spillane was condemned
for, in an Amazon review a guy who was so indignant over his
twisting of the language that he refused to read past the
second page, and a lot of people saw the characters as little
more than cardboard stereotypes.
miker
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