Geoff’s Comments (group member since Sep 17, 2018)

Geoff’s comments from the Point Blank group.

Next on Kurt and Justin's world tour - Lagos!

Enjoyed the episode, and I enjoyed Total Chaos. I didn't love it. I did love the short sentences and the smart lines, but I didn't feel it, overall - the relationships felt a bit constructed to me - though I can't remember specific examples.

Marseille Noir

Ezra Maas looks a bit too smart for me! Interesting idea though.

I read it before I saw the film, maybe that's why I only quite liked the film. I really loved the book.

It's a five shot book in my memory too. Loved the motel scene. The death of a protagonist half-way through. Still amazing in my head.

Hi Girard - I've just watched the first Ozark on your recommendation. It was okay - good enough to stick with it anyway.

The book sounds great - but I've got 'The Border' stacked up somewhere too - will definitely have to read it.

I loved Bad Blood, by the way. Both seasons have plenty of punch.

Anyone else watching 'Bad Blood'?

Has anyone else seen 'How to Sell Drugs Online (fast)' on Netflix. It's flippin brilliant, buat only 6 30 minute episodes it's too damned short!

Vague memory - anyone else?

Thanks Kurt - your pointers were much appreciated.

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Hi all. My book is actually, finally out.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

If anyone felt like buying it, that would be awesome. It's real cheap (at least for a bit).

I read Nausea - Satre - when I was a foreign exchange cashier on the night-shift (in my twenties) - I enjoyed it at the time, though I'm sure I missed the point. Waiting for the girl to arrive was so tense and the librarian..... I really remember how it made me feel.

Anyhoo - I've been reading some Paul Heatley - he's a really solid noir writer.

I'm trying to remember how I felt about the second half of the book. I remember that I loved it, but then I like long passages of dialogue.

I can't get along with Greene myself (I know I'm in the minority), and yeah No Country... was flipping brilliant!

Me too. I loved this book back when I read it . The opening when the guy discovers the loot is great, and the death in the middle blew me away.

The classic Cormac novel - one of my favourites.

Loads of Hemingway goodness.....

Okay, so I'm going to make a speculative point in defence of Hemingway:

Wondering if Hem's use of N-word is a marker of the divisive nature of poverty in that Harry's perpetual desperation and the desperation of the other non 1% characters, the criminals and the revolutionaries, all the groups and the individuals live within themselves and their ethnic identities, so the N-word could be a symptom of the brutalising divisiveness of poverty.

Just throwing it out there.

I finished this today and I've got to be honest, I didn't really get it. The end was weird - it dragged on in the penultimate chapter with Henry Whatshisface and I didn't really understand why that was there, and the death of Harry didn't seem to mean anything, which might be an existential thing, but for me it lacked any cohesion and I left the book feeling frustrated, despite the many good parts.