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Literary Love
"...truth of the matter is there is only so much of anything. You can take a life and chop it up into so many shits, pisses. So many bankruptcies and restructurings. So many cab rides....", so muses Leslie Cauldwell, lawyer & sex addict, on page 84. I have a hard time finding sympathy with characters who are lawyers unless it's Oscar Zeta Acosta. But Leslie, the lawyer creation of Nersesian, is an amazingly lovable sick bastard. So he kills his wife and gets away with it, shit happens. Time to move on. But Leslie becomes increasingly obsessed with his past love of a porno star.....and oh man, the downward spiral goes. A good story does not a great book make. Suicide Casanova achieves greatness from the poetic prose of its author. Page 275, sex scene: "I lift the secret curtain of her dress and carefully dip my fingers into her foam, toying with her tumblers. Now this Jeane stand-in is groaning big-time, throwing off smoke and sparks. My hobgoblin is hard and hungry...." If that paragraph doesn't make you run out and buy this book you must've accidentally been steered here from a link on the Disney web site. There is one down side to this book. It's bound in a video cassette case. Conceptually a good idea, but it sucks to try to read it in the case. The first thing I did was cut out the guts of the book for an easier read. I hate mutilating fine literature, but there was no way I was going to continue to scratch my hands on the plastic of the case every time I turned a page. Page 348, street scene: "Amid garbage cans brimming with debris, I pass gregarious weekend people, inflatable Macy's-parade girls and their protective, anchoring boyfriends. Their normalcy rancors me. Their joyous idiocy ruffles me." Every budding author should read this book. Stop your creative writing class focusing on the technique of that hack Hemingway and study the elegant gritty prose of Nersesian. Stop your literary theory class on Faulkner and read the next generation of literary genius. Literary love,
Dirty Havana Trilogy This will probably end up as Lit Love for January. Amazing book. Heartbreaking, sexual, poetic all at the same time. Thanks to Mark for turning me onto this author.
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