On and off, I've tended to read quite a bit. So, I thought I'd put up some reviews of books as I read them. In time, I may go back and add reviews of some of the books I read in the past. Not massively exciting, but I suppose it may be of interest to someone, somewhere (perhaps).
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
Another Greene classic, I'd always for some reason thought this tale of murder in the Brighton underworld was set in the '50s, when in fact it's the '30s. So gangland killings and a knife culture is not all that new.
The writing's very... compact. It has wonderful pacing and a certain feeling of minimalism. Just as Our Man in Havana captured the Cuban atmosphere, this has great tension. What starts off as a very strange detective story (a happy-go-lucky alcoholic chasing down a violent but strangely naive hoodlum) turns into something much more - something somehow about Catholicism and innocence. And as for the ending... wow.
Permalink. Posted 23:01, Fri, 25 Jul 2008.
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