Jeff responded to my question about a few thompson reprintsI
had picked up:
"Bad Boy is great. Read it as if it were a novel. I think
it's a prequel to Roughneck. Kill-Off and Rip-Off are
good--not great--if you're a fan of Thompson. Golden Gizmo
(along with King Blood) is probably the worse novel Thompson
ever wrote. It's just plain bizarre. If Thompson ever was a
junky, this would have been the fruits of that period. It
features a talking dog. Need I say more? Maybe if you read it
as some kind of twisted Beat literature, it works at some
level . . ."
Call me perverse, but this makes Golden Gizmo sound
intriguing. I may have to start with that one. Right now I'm
reading Babylon 8, which is sahping up nicely. Another book I
found out about here.
Mark
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 04 Aug 2004 EDT