Anyone who hasn't read Joe Gores's Interface shouldn't read
further here.
MAJOR SPOILERS
OK. I read Interface knowing there was a "twist ending" (it's
flagged by Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller in 1001
Midnights), and I did guess what the ending was. My question
is, has anyone analyzed the novel (a la the movie The Sixth
Sense) to see if the sequence of events and movements is 100%
consistent with the eventual twist? I mean, I trust the
author and all, but it seems that this would be interesting
analysis to do (albeit involving some intensive work).
I think that what keeps this novel from the upper echelon for
me is Gores's prose, which, to be frank, ain't too elegant.
That's not everything in a novel -- I admire the famously
clumsy Theodore Dreiser, for example -- but in a novel of
motion, the movements need to be more adroitly described
than, say, this:
"[The car] went past, on toward the next intersecting lane
down the garage which was parallel to that which was
sawhorsed."
That's not an unfair sample, either. The novel is full of
sentences like that.
Mark
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