Michael Robison:
CALDO LARGO is about a fisherman, I think. Been a
long
> time since I read it. The crime that figures into
Thompson's plots are
> small
> time scams, thefts, weighed with a lot of vice. I
thought CALDO LARGO was
> pretty good. I loved GARDEN OF SAND. One of the best
books I've ever
> read. The sequel to it, TATTOO, stunk. So
obsessively sexual that
Thompson
> should have called it JACK'S DICK.
Miker, If you think TATOO is obsessively sexual, how about
GARDEN OF SAND, which aside from being about the dark side of
living in the depression has many episodes of Jack's attempts
to to have sex with his mother from the age of about seven
until he is at about age fourteen and climaxes when he
succeeds? I think TATTOO needed a good editor as it lost its
thrust by trying to chronicle too much of his life. From what
I remember CALDO LARGO was influenced by Hemingway. THE DEVIL
TO PAY tells of the character's life as an academic/writer.
It may have as nearly as many sex scenes as the others but
could not pretend to be hard boiled.
I agree while crime is often present in GARDEN it is
not that important. If you want to call it hard boiled, think
something like THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY. Mark
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