3/23/2023 0 Comments The end of the night book![]() ![]() heh! who can pass up a smasheroo? i certainly can't.count me in! #9 from macdonald for me.give or take."powerful, fast-paced.a smasheroo." saturday review. shires story begins: dear ed, well, we had the big day here, and we sen 17 dec 14, wednesday evening an execution is a very serious thing, and around here we do our level best to have it go smooth and quick, and we try to do it with some dignity too. heh! who can pass up a smasheroo? i certainly can't.count me in! has this quote on the title page. It's not one of those books you wish had kept on going, but still, I do miss the book now that it's over.moreġ7 dec 14, wednesday evening #9 from macdonald for me.give or take."powerful, fast-paced.a smasheroo." saturday review. ![]() And even though I finished the book, the characters are dancing around in my head. While it may seem at first glance that this story is as old as the Bible, the author brings something unique to this work which got under my skin so much that I felt like I was there with them, as both victim and perpetrator. It's scary in a No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy way, which is to say, there is nothing more frightening in the world than a close-up picture of real evil.Ī young foursome go across the country on a killing spree and are inevitably caught and punished. It's not scary in a vampire/horror story way (although who can really be scared of vampires anymore since we have Twilight and True Blood which provide us with vampire romance and porn). This is one of the scariest books I have ever read, and the first book since Salem's Lot (some 30 years ago) that actually gave me nightmares. When I finally got around to it, I was completely captivated. It's not scary in a vampire/horror story way (although who can really be scared of vampires anymore since we have Twilight and Tru After I read that Stephen King deemed this a book worth re-reading, and Dean Koontz raved about the author, I put it on my list where it has languished for 3 years. But when JDM indulges his love of pontification, he fails to recognize that a well-told story can be not just a sufficient but a superior way of deepening readers’ understanding of the world.moreĪfter I read that Stephen King deemed this a book worth re-reading, and Dean Koontz raved about the author, I put it on my list where it has languished for 3 years. Of course, this is not to say that noir fiction cannot be a vehicle for understanding the world-in fact, this is what distinguishes much of the best noir. Therefore, I should not have been surprised to find that The End of the Night is dominated by a pair of pretentious first-person narrators, both of whom are more interested in understanding the world than telling a story. To wit: Many readers, myself among them, find that JDM’s novels are aging poorly because of his habit of interjecting sociological lectures into his narratives, and these are precisely the sections of his books that JDM liked the best. I did not stop to consider that there is a compelling reason for suspecting that JDM may not have been the best judge of his own work. Given that JDM thought so highly of The End of the Night, I was expecting a great read. The End of the Night chronicles the so-called Wolf Pack, three young men and a young woman who go on a cross-country crime spree. MacDonald identified as the worst of his early novels, I felt obligated to follow up by reading The End of the Night (1960), which was his favorite of the early books. I did not stop to consider that there is a compelling reaso Having recently read Weep for Me (1951), which John D. Having recently read Weep for Me (1951), which John D. ![]()
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