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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 15, 2021 23:18:18 GMT
The only other thing I am going to say here is that there have been a couple of interesting cameo appearances from real historical figures - Angel (who now accepts that he really is/was Johnny Favorite) first briefly bumps into Albert Camus in a Paris nightclub, and later ends up borrowing a book from William S. Burroughs (though he doesn't really know who either of these people are). What was the book he borrows? Was it on marksmanship? Burroughs was a naughty man in general who killed his wife trying to shoot a glass off her head. In Mexico, where he grew marijuana, badly. I don't know any stories about Camus.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 16, 2021 5:43:17 GMT
The only other thing I am going to say here is that there have been a couple of interesting cameo appearances from real historical figures - Angel (who now accepts that he really is/was Johnny Favorite) first briefly bumps into Albert Camus in a Paris nightclub, and later ends up borrowing a book from William S. Burroughs (though he doesn't really know who either of these people are). What was the book he borrows? Was it on marksmanship? Burroughs was a naughty man in general who killed his wife trying to shoot a glass off her head. It's not a real book, but has the unlikely title of My Name is Legion: The Satanic Origins of the Christian Church, by Janos Szabor ("published in London by Chatto & Windus in 1951, translated from the Hungarian by Margaret Rushbrook Cobb"). Angel/Favorite and Burroughs have quite a long conversation that takes in Bill's poor marksmanship, among other things.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 11:02:47 GMT
What was the book he borrows? Was it on marksmanship? Burroughs was a naughty man in general who killed his wife trying to shoot a glass off her head. It's not a real book, but has the unlikely title of My Name is Legion: The Satanic Origins of the Christian Church, by Janos Szabor ("published in London by Chatto & Windus in 1951, translated from the Hungarian by Margaret Rushbrook Cobb"). Angel/Favorite and Burroughs have quite a long conversation that takes in Bill's poor marksmanship, among other things. I just thought of another thread idea! Stay tuned!
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drauch
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by drauch on Sept 16, 2021 15:03:55 GMT
Thanks for the sequel write-up. Very skeptical myself when I first saw that it was getting published. Seems superfluous and rather dangerous to resurrect something that ends so perfectly, especially after such a lengthy duration. Seems to be a lot of that as of late, and not so certain what materializes is worthy! Hope this one is different. Also, I think it ill not to post this gorgeous cover art when discussing the novel
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 19, 2021 13:05:33 GMT
I have just finished Angel's Inferno, and to be honest I'm not really sure what I think about it. It kind of loses its way in the middle section, with a lot of running around Paris (and a trip to Rome) that takes up a fair number of pages but doesn't really move the story on very much. The ending is (I suppose) meant to be surprising and shocking, but I had started to suspect where things might be going a bit earlier, and so it didn't really work that way for me - and I am not sure that it really made much sense, or fitted at all with what was supposed to have been going on in the first book. Overall, I'd say it's probably worth reading as a sort of curiosity, but it just isn't in the same class as Falling Angel.
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