Re: RARA-AVIS: Interface by Joe Gores

From: harry.lerner@mail.mcgill.ca
Date: 23 Jan 2008


I'm about half way through WOLF TIME and I have found it quite different from all of his DKA books, especially the more recent three. In WOLF TIME Hollis Fletcher, the main protagonist, is not completely unlikeable, but neither is he the easiest character to care about. The other characters vary in their respective degrees of cynicical self-motivation, but there is not a single one that is readily likeable.

Although I haven't read Gores's other stand alone books, I suspect that they may be more or less in the same vain (e.g. A TIME FOR PREDATORS, COME MORNING, etc.)

Best, Harry

Quoting Raymond Tait < raymond.tait@cai.cam.ac.uk>:

> I have just finished reading this book which took me by surprise. I had
> only previously read the three earliest DKA novels and was expecting a
> similarly enjoyable read. With Interface the tone and style is very
> different. It is one of the darkest and most brutal books I have read in a
> while and the Docker character cuts a grim swathe through the novel. It is
> populated by a collection of characters who are either fairly unsavoury or
> hopeless of at best hard and cynical. Nobody is particularly likeable.
> Lots of foul language as well. Then of course there is the twist which
> cannot be discussed. Very clever. Anyway the book is recommended if you
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> Reading this book and reflecting on how different it was from my memory of
> his style made me think of those other authors whose style varies
> considerably - Block and Westlake for example. Are the other Gores books in
> the same vein as either DKA or Interface or does he do different styles as
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> My other question is, how should his name by pronounced?
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