----- Original Message ----- From: "Bludis Jack" <
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> What follows is alternate point of view
incidents
> leaing up to the actual capture of the four.
Each
> point of view is written in a different
voice,
> but as always, McGee imposes his own brand
of
> poetic prose on each character.
>
> Which is the problem I had with the book.
The
> most focused characters are one member of
"the
> wolf pack," a drop out from college just a
few
> weeks before graduation; the other is the
group's
> last victim, a well-to-do young lady who who
is
> about to get married but who is in the
wrong
> place at the wrong time.
>
> One gets the feeling that JDM in this one,
was
> writing for the ages and didn't quite hit
the
> mark.
This sounded familiar, so I checked my notes from when I read
this book earlier in the year. I wrote: it's nobody's story,
which is okay in a thriller, but this isn't a thriller. It's
convincing enough, just a bit dull. Possibly a mistake to
begin with the executions. Ruined what would otherwise have
been some badly needed suspense.
I think 1960 was a bit of an experimental year for JDM. He
also wrote "Slam The Big Door", which is strangely soporific
(although the ending wakes you up with a mighty
clatter).
Al
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