This book is incredibly confusing, straight from the get-go. The book starts with solely focusing on Riordan, then adds characters left and right, each with their own respective background. This makes keeping track of the characters next to impossible, and frankly, plain annoying.Another problem ...
"This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid."Don't trust cops. Don't trust crooked cops especially. In his defense Serpico wasn't released yet. Maybe he didn't know any better? Don't be a sap, Mariel! There's no excuse. Eddie Coyle, known to frenemies as Eddie Fingers, is too fucking stup...
SPOILERS BELOW:This is one of those books I was very impressed with in terms of ambition and craft, but ultimately unsatisfied with. I'll admit I went to the library with the intention of picking up "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (his famous one) but got stuck with this. His style is very odd. I'd ...
Higgins is great. He's written what amounts to a dozen scenes with primarily dialogue, and he gets character, plot, action, the whole thing. "Sweating like I did a mile and six furlongs". Higgins has great knowledge of the way things work in the world, first of the legal and other-than-legal busi...
Publicado en http://lecturaylocura.com/la-rata-en-...No es la primera vez que hablo de George V. Higgins; a propósito de la publicación de su segunda novela lo incluí en este artículo; entonces ensalzaba su capacidad para crear diálogos y caracterizar personajes mediante ellos. No es que haya cam...