Maybe I'll try and persevere with ROF. I Googled, and Ellroy
rates The Diggers Game as well. I'll redouble my efforts to
get a copy.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Robert Elkin
<rictusaporia@y...> wrote:
>
> 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@y...> 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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