Mark D. Nevins wrote:
>
>
> A few years ago I picked up David Huggins's THE BIG
KISS--I've not yet
> read it, but it looks like it might be a decent
"neo-noir" (I'm not
> getting into that terminology debate
here).
>
> Below is a description from GoogleBooks, including a
quote from Will
> Self, a peer of Barnes and Amis (as I try to
retro-actively bring a
> previous post of mine on-topic ;-)
>
> If anyone has an opinion, let me know if I should
move THE BIG KISS
> higher up in my towering "to read" stack.
>
I too was suckered in by the Chester Himes comparison - one
can only assume that Will Self had never actually read Himes
as The Big Kiss is, in fact, a very boring Brit answer to Jay
MacInerney et al. Avoid Night Train as well - apart from
being a tedious, snobbish hardboiled pastiche, it also sports
the most irritating ending of any book I've read.
John
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