NOIRTRASH
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THE IMPOSTORS by George V. Higgins
3 stars
I like George V. Higgins a lot. IMPOSTORS has flawless writing and competently balances and blends many sub-plots through the final scene. It's masterful but not interesting, and I wanted to set it aside many times.
Its a middle-class soap opera with all the drama middle-class people have. I'm speaking of middle-class NOT middle income. The real middle-class sweat everything, obsess about every impression they make, and would rather die than drink water out of a garden hose. The elites and peasants cant care less about what anyone thinks of them, but the middle-class suffers fools and everything else. Only a middle class lawyers wife tries to kill herself after an arrest for petty theft.
But Higgins screws up occasionally, Zeller Schwartzkatz isnt a prestigious Moselle white wine, it's a common low cost table wine for the home, like sangria.
It lacks plot or story, but one sex scene is excellent; Higgins didn't write much sex but what he wrote is memorable.
Its mostly a collection of uninteresting characters with uninteresting problems. They get laid and have dull crises.
3 stars
I like George V. Higgins a lot. IMPOSTORS has flawless writing and competently balances and blends many sub-plots through the final scene. It's masterful but not interesting, and I wanted to set it aside many times.
Its a middle-class soap opera with all the drama middle-class people have. I'm speaking of middle-class NOT middle income. The real middle-class sweat everything, obsess about every impression they make, and would rather die than drink water out of a garden hose. The elites and peasants cant care less about what anyone thinks of them, but the middle-class suffers fools and everything else. Only a middle class lawyers wife tries to kill herself after an arrest for petty theft.
But Higgins screws up occasionally, Zeller Schwartzkatz isnt a prestigious Moselle white wine, it's a common low cost table wine for the home, like sangria.
It lacks plot or story, but one sex scene is excellent; Higgins didn't write much sex but what he wrote is memorable.
Its mostly a collection of uninteresting characters with uninteresting problems. They get laid and have dull crises.
