Stos's review
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Stos's review
rating:
bookshelves: lit
recommended for: Anyone who like beat generation writers or the movie "Requem for a Dream"
status: Read in January, 2003
rating:
bookshelves: lit
recommended for: Anyone who like beat generation writers or the movie "Requem for a Dream"
status: Read in January, 2003
This was the book that the movie (and eventually the book) "Requem for a Dream" was based off of. The era in which this book was written (the 50's) is known for its great achievements as its cohorts were referred to as "The Greatest Generation." "Last Exit to Brooklyn" is NOT about the "Greatest Generation," as it is the only book I know of that talks about the lumpenproletariat of this era.
What I like about this book compared to other beat books was that Selby was ACTUALLY POOR (I hated in "On the Road" whenever Kerouac ran out of money, his mom would wire it to him), and uneducated which makes his stream of conscienceness writting more raw and real.
What I like about this book compared to other beat books was that Selby was ACTUALLY POOR (I hated in "On the Road" whenever Kerouac ran out of money, his mom would wire it to him), and uneducated which makes his stream of conscienceness writting more raw and real.
Have you filed your review under the wrong book? The movie Requiem for a Dream is based on Selby's novel of the same name, not on Last exit to Brooklyn.
No, the book is right. "Requiem for a Dream" was originally a short story in Last Exit to Brooklyn, available in some sort of special edition. Later this short story was expanded to a novel.If you watch the interview with Arnofsky however, in the extras of the Requiem DVD, he explains that it was Last Exit To Brooklyn that inspired him to make a movie like Requiem.
I had thought that the novel of requiem came at the same time as the movie, but I could be mistaken. My point is merely that the book "Requiem for a Dream" was originally based off of "Last Exit To Brooklyn."
Thanks, didn't know that.
Yeah, I might have gotten some of my details mixed up, but I remember Arnofsky going off about Brooklyn in the DVD extras.
