Hi-- Well, I liked RoF. But Digger's Game is my favorite GVH.
Ellroy's got a few things to say about GVH's style, though
I'm unaware if they're online. BEst, Rob
--- ljfth1 <
ljfth1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> This is my first post on here, hope it works.
I've
> just re-read George
> V. Higgins The Friends of Eddie Coyle for the
first
> time in over ten
> years, and it's even better than I'd
remembered,
> pure genius. I've
> ordered Cogan's Trade, and will also get
The
> Digger's Game in due
> course, but currently I'm halfway through The Rat
On
> Fire, which was
> the only GVH novel of that period(ish) that I
could
> find in London.
> I've heard it said that Higgins became a bit
too
> enamoured of his,
> undeniably brilliant, proto-Mamet dialogue, but
I
> wasn't expecting
> anything quite as unreadably dull as this.
People
> seem to just drone on
> repetitively, to no real purpose, for page
after
> page.
>
> I'm considering abandoning it. Should I stick
it
> out? Will it get any
> better? Any recommendations on his other stuff?
I
> read, and enjoyed,
> all the Jerry Kennedy books many years
ago.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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