Ditto me - I like it the same way I like Sallis. Here's my
review for Booklist:
>From Booklist
*Starred Review* In his third case, Galwegian ex-cop Jack
Taylor--The Guards (2002), The Killing of the Tinkers
(2003--buries some old friends and enemies while meeting some
intriguing new ones, thanks to the addition of pills to his
coterie of demons (booze, cocaine, and books). This time
Jack's progress toward self-destruction is slowed both by a
desultory search for a fallen angel linked to a hellish
Catholic laundry and by his probe into the black habits of a
sexually voracious widow. The series' real draw, though, has
never been the story lines; rather, it's the eclectic,
lyrical screeds pouring forth from the narrator's ruined
heart. Some readers may balk at Taylor's constant literary
references (in the midst of a beating, he descants on Henry
Green, a
"writers' writer's writer"), but these allusions are fueled
by the same hard spiritual and physical thirst for sublimity
that make him such a compelling existential antihero, not to
mention a handy readers' advisor. Suffice it to say that fans
of Roddy Doyle, James Sallis, Samuel Beckett, Irvine Welsh,
Frederick Exley, Patrick McCabe, George Pelecanos, Ian
Rankin, and Chuck Palahniuk will all find something to like,
love, or obsess over in this stiff shot of evil chased with
heartbreaking irony. Highly recommended. David Wright
--- Charlie Stella <
CharlieOpera@aol.com> wrote:
>
> What was missed? I'm thinking everything ...
I
> just reviewed it on
> my webpage http://www.charliestella.com/knucks/
>
> To each his own, brother ...
>
>
>
>
David Wright - Seattle Public Library Fiction Dept.
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
-G.K.
Chesterton
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